Southernspeed
Silver Member
@EdGooding That's great info, thank you!
The previous owner had it for 30+ years and never opened the engine up. The engine certainly feels ‘soft’ but is running fine so I’ll not mess with it for now.The 8N-B you see cast into the engine indicates a 2nd generation 8N block that was fitted for the side-mount (aka angle drive) distributor. It also indicates that your engine came from the factory with .040 steel sleeves, but that doesn't mean this was not changed during a subsequent engine rebuild. The 8N-C was the last generation of this engine and indicated that it came from the factory with .090 cast iron sleeves.