dezeldoc Posted June 9, 2009 Report Posted June 9, 2009 Found this beast in my friends brothers back yard! anybody know what it is? And this is what i had to haul over for him! come to find out this is the original motor out of my 48 Chrysler Saratoga, seems it was taken out about 40yrs ago and he thought his brother sold it years ago, but it was in a shed in the back yard! Quote
Young Ed Posted June 9, 2009 Report Posted June 9, 2009 I like the 55 dodge. congrats on finding a straight 8 Quote
greg g Posted June 9, 2009 Report Posted June 9, 2009 If you think spares are scarce and pricey for mopar 6's wait till youstart looking for straight 8 parts. Is it siezed??? Quote
RobertKB Posted June 9, 2009 Report Posted June 9, 2009 Dezeldoc, great story. What are your plans for the motor? Quote
PatS.... Posted June 9, 2009 Report Posted June 9, 2009 The manifolds are worth a kings ransom if in good shape. Quote
dezeldoc Posted June 9, 2009 Author Report Posted June 9, 2009 (edited) Don't know what i am going to do with it, story goes it was leaking oil and their dad pulled it and never got around to going through it, his brother that owned a tow service kept it at his shop, then moved it to his new shop in '61 and there it sat till he retired and put the motor at his other brothers house( their are 9 kids!). when i got the car it was in his tow yard but never got an answer as to where the motor was, till last saturday! also got 2 of the transmissions for it. it looks to be in good shape, turns over and has a bunch of old parafin based oil coating the thing. manifolds look good i did not see any cracks. Gerg, i went from the one 6 in the 50 to now having 4 6's and now the 8! i have all the parts to rebuild the 230 that is going in the 50 this winter, just got to finish some paying jobs. Edited June 9, 2009 by dezeldoc Quote
Gary Manes Posted June 9, 2009 Report Posted June 9, 2009 I have a 1948 New Yorker. That engine is not only HARD to find parts for, but is the biggest gas hog I have ever seen. At the time I was redoing the engine I could not find a "set of bearings" for it. One size does not fit all. Fortunately or unfortunately one of the crank surfaces had been over ground sometime in the past. Luckily the shop doing the work has every machine know to western man to redo racing engines which is their specialty. I took it in October which is their slow time. They flash welded the entire crank, and ground it back to standard (0). There are plenty of bearings for standard, but once you go over good luck. That little episode added to $895 to the rebuild cost. The gas pump, oil pump, water pump, and something else, I can't recall just what, are virtually unavailable. You have to have one and have it rebuilt. The engine is probably not worth much, BUT, as noted previously, some of the parts are. Nice looking sedan!! Quote
knuckleharley Posted June 9, 2009 Report Posted June 9, 2009 Guys,there is a company names Power Engineering out in Denver that specializes in rebuilding cranks and camshafts. I worked there for a while back in the late 70's. They do everything from inline 4 cylinders,to some cranks and cams that are over 16 feet long. No kidding. They are (or were) the largest crankshaft remanufacturing facility in the world back then,and we even got in cranks from other countries to rebuild. Everything is done in-house,including the welding up the journals,hard chroming them,and then turning them and polishing them to standard size. Yes,they take individual orders. Quote
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