Re: 352 Crankshaft

Posted by Jack Vines On 2012/1/27 16:37:31
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I don't understand all the wild/unsubstantiated supposition concerning forged replacement crankshafts. They were probably produced by Studebaker's supplier. Packard was going out of business. Studebaker never went to cast cranks, so it seems logical that replacement cranks would be ordered thru Studebaker. They went to the company who supplied their cranks, and thus it was a given that the cranks were forged.
No big mystery - and no wild suppositions needed. A simple business decision.
Yes, could have happened that way.

On the other hand, I was in the foundry business in another life. It is always much less expensive to continue having the cranks cast by the original Packard supplier.

One possibility is by 1959, when they decided they needed more service crankshafts, the original cast patterns had been destroyed. Maybe then, they gave the work to the forging shop which produced Studebaker cranks.

Still would like to know if there's any documentation of the forged cranks prior to that 1959 SSB.

jack vines

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