My buddy got a great barn find. A 34 Chevy truck in awesome condition with all 52 chevy drivetrain & suspension.

The six cylinder has no balancer and no mark on the pully (from what I can see) or a timing indicator, pointer or ?

I believe there's a small window at the rear of the engine above the starter (might be on the other side) with a simple pointer visible inside it.. The pointer aligns with marks that are on the flywheel. The flywheel will be visible through the window.

I don't know what the timing specs will be put it will probably not be much over 4 to 6 degrees advanced at idle.

Alot of the older stuff times like this. My '48 Ford 8N tractor times like this, also.


Randy

Randy has covered it. The mark on the flywheel may actually be a ball bearing pressed into a hole. usually easy to see.

Yep, that's it. There is a ball (maybe bearing) pressed into the flywheel.
On the right side, next to the starter, there is a window with a pointer. When the pointer and ball are lined up, that is TDC. The flywheel will (or should have) an A (just like on the timing tab of a V8) to show which way is advance.
(Man, I had to dig deep into history to recall that, I pulled the last 6cy engine out of my 51 over 30yrs ago! Wonder if I can still ride a bicycle?)

Geez some of you guys must be old as dirt!

Older!:thumbsup:

I'm the guy that invented dirt-------------------but I didn't think to get a patent for it!!!!!!!!

dirt must have been invented later than 1953, cause that's when I was born and I"m older than dirt.

dirt must have been invented later than 1953, cause that's when I was born and I"m older than dirt.
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53,,,, hell,,, I was almost a teenager,,,, damn kids :waving:

You don't know old til you start fartin dust :D

so last summer I'm driving down Pacific Coast Highway near Encinitas ( that's a little North of San DIego for you non-westies) and there's this little hole in the surfboard shop. My son wants to go in.... aw what the heck, OK, let's go. Walk in there and first thing I see is a XXL t-shirt hanging on a rack, on the front it sez: "Old Guys Rule." Outstanding, "I'll take a couple of those....." The guy running the place laughs, he's older than I am. Turns out he sells quite a few of those shirts. :)

I love wearing that thing.

I still play with a 54 now and then. A friend has a real 54 3/4 ton 4 wheel drive that was sold by Chev (his father in law bought it new in 55) it was a converson made for caltrans (highway repair) that they didn't buy so they sold it through a dealership. You really learn how much better modern designs are. Have you ever looked closely at the ign system? You have got to be kidding.

hey, it was the latest thing out...... then.... Did you know you can grind the collar off a 6-cyl HEI and slide it right in there?

Tom your kidding right? Great idea but his is a numbers matching truck that still is 6volt. Definately something to put in the memory bank.

Sounds like a 216"er!!

And fwiw, going by memory, some of them had splash rod bearing lube and others had pressurized, depending if it was a stick or an automatic tranny car..

BUT it's been years and years so I might be thinking of the '53, 216 motors???

And yes, I am fast approaching catching up to the age of "dirt", He, He!!

pdq67

PS., and I had one in my $75.00, '51 or '52 2-dr car back about the fall of '66 that ran PERFECT!!!!

Our '53 Plymouth would idle in "high gear" (level road), and you could accelerate from idle in high gear, without lugging or bucking, with a light touch on the "foot feed" Can your new Camry do that?,

Sounds like a 216"er!!

And fwiw, going by memory, some of them had splash rod bearing lube and others had pressurized, depending if it was a stick or an automatic tranny car..

BUT it's been years and years so I might be thinking of the '53, 216 motors???



Up through 1952, ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Chevy 6s had babbit rods. The babbit rod engines had the low oil pressure system with dippers on the rod caps which scooped up oil for lubrication. The 53 3sp cars had the low pressure, babbit rods and the 53 Powerglide cars had the high pressure engines with inserted rod bearings. The 54-later engines all had the hi-pressure engines.
The last year for the 216 was the 52 3sp cars (the 50-later PG cars had a 235, and in 53 everything was a 235).

This was (and still is) my very first car. It started life with a 216 "babbit beater" until I wore it out, then a 261(truck engine) with the 6cyl Corvette 3 carb setup, 283, 327 and now a 350 and still going strong every day!
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h219/DZAUTO/BLU51.jpg