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Originally Posted by ford38v8
Mike, Gary Mallast reports the opposite to be true. He says, in the '38-'39 book, that the Nov '38 drawing shows the location being between the front two plugs. Heavy handwritten note in pencil soon after moved the location to the middle. He found no other drawings for '39.
Drawings and real life don't always agree, as production is not likely to stop and wait for a mechanical drawing to build what needs to be built. That handwritten note may well have been written on the production floor after the fact!
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Hi Alan, Thanks for pointing this out. I stand corrected in part. I was in fact aware of that note on the drawing but it was very ambiguous in that it lacked some information. As I recall the drawing that depicted the "A" near the front was never released for production. However, we know these heads (obviously) exist in quantity.
I tend to believe production was ramped up prior to any engineering change.
Still, the heads with "A" near the front would have been very early '39. At least I think so
