Re: New Member: My '39 120 has strange engine number. Help??

Posted by HH56 On 2010/10/12 22:14:52

Since it is a 22nd series engine, here is a bulletin on the CE suffix.packardinfo.com/xoops/html/downloads/STB/48T-25.pdf and may help you determine which oil pan you need. That and other suffix details are in SC Vol 22#12. Vol23 #6 gives dimensions of various dipsticks used and might also help.

If it does turn out to be an H, that would solve almost all being right in sequence but does not explain the CAL also stamped in. If it is a replacement engine, and is an N then could stand for "new", and the CAL could be for California DMV purposes noting the change if it were done here. Don't know how service engines were numbered though--whether just a number in the original sequence without a letter -- which doesn't seem likely or with...