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Originally Posted by poolplayer1
I wanted to see what year this 302 was from.I removed the starter and saw the casting numbers which are the following: EOAE and underneath those numbers are: D5C.They were kind of hard to read but I did spray gunk degreaser to clean the numbers. Now,the E could be an 8 cause it looks like an E or 8.
Can anyone here see if you can decode this numbers for me please. I also saw some numbers on the intake and those numbers are C8AE-9425-B but I think those are just for the intake,not the block unless you guys think that might be the block casting numbers.As always,thanks for all your help with this question.
Mando
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E0AE on the BLOCK CASTING I.D. equates to 1980. The actual DATE CODE will give you the year of casting.
C8AE on the MANIFOLD CASTING equates to 1968.
So you have a 5.0L block retro-fitted with earlier 302 carburetion.
So you had no cooling problems before the rad leak? It is the OEM 55 rad?
The repair shop should have rodded the core and performed a flow test after the repair. See what it does when it comes back.
DATE CODE INFO-
http://automotivemileposts.com/ford/...rtnumbers.html
Scroll down to DATE CODES on the page.