So the Other Rob can attest, I've been getting some free slants and 'shuffling' things around, today he got to pick one up for his Valiant and helped me grab one out of a John Deere Thresher to take home...



Data Plate:


This thing is a real combination of parts, I think the block 'clock' said it was cast in 1971, it has a forged crank with a big register 11" flywheel...
but... it looks like Mopar 'mixed and matched' parts for this particular tractor, after doing an autopsy, it never has been apart, it still had a stock early 70's nylon cam gear in really nice condition...the block and manifolds still had some chysler blue color under the John Deere Green over coating

I noticed the points distributor looks to be about a 70-71 part number (and the Bendix/Zenith Carb had the vacc. advance hooked up so you get get more 'yardage' per gallon)


The manifolds looked to be a later intake with the 'early' open choke pocket...





It has a very 'terse' ID pad...compared to the auto/truck blocks, with nothing stamped into the other ID pad...



I've never seen a 'truck' pan with two oil outlets bunged into it...



Sadly, with the meager use of a air filter, the cylinders had 'mud' in them from unfiltered field use and having the engine open to the elements it has some water in the cylinders...






I guess I'll have to find out who knows how to identify if the crank has been shot peened or not since it's a heavy duty use engine... !?!?!? (Would be nice to have a 'late' shot peened crank for the long rod motor, I keep slowly collecting the right parts for)...


-D.Idiot

Cool find! No pics of the Bendix-Zenith carpotater, though?

Any crank can be shot-peened by a machine shop equipped to do so...I don't recall it costing much, either.

Looks like probably a Prestolite distributor?

I see parts and service manuals go by on the bag every so often for these JD industrial/agricultural slant-6s.

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The carb is in the valve cover behind the distributor (along with the goofy long 'L' necked air spout... I wonder if someone on E-bag would take the spout as a 'slant six truck motor turbo adaptor....) I'll pull it out and take some pics tomorrow... I may see about a rebuild kit if it's repairable....

I pitched the Pierce Governor, but kept the motorola 35 amp alternator that was low mounted like the early 60's trucks and vans (I could swear that alternator looked a lot like my uncle's 1980's pager...)

A couple buddies said I should rebuild it as a hi-po motor, keep it green and have 'Kermit' painted on the valve cover....


It's not easy being green....or yellow, blue, or red sometimes....


-D.Idiot

dood kermit mobile, go race miss piggy... hehehe cool find

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'77 cherokee cheif widetrack-360-33x12.5 tires-no lift. keeps driveway dry-project/backup DD/mudder

I live and work in a farming world so it's nothing to see a JD slant combine running on LP or a Owatonna swather with an "industrial" slant making the way for fresh hay, powering an irrigation system, or doing something to get my favorite meat.

I guess what I am saying is that there were slants everywhere, from fork lifts to the biggest ag vehicles of the 70's. So when you are looking for parts (and poof of their streinght) don't rule out the farm auctions, industrial sales, and even old military auctions!

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First front-sump pan I've seen. But I do have one from a van that has it all the way on the OTHER end. Yours probably has some extra oil capacity, like mine.

Would be cool to have a "slant museum" with all the different permutations (ag, marine, auto, truck, Cortez RV, HyperPak, turbo, injected, 3X DCOE, NOS etc.) set up to run on stands, side-by-side.

*smacks back of own head to jolt self back into real world*

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love the look of the green intake

Yep, I agree, slant-6s look really good in green.

Exhaust manifold's a '70-'72 item (early version of late manifold, just like DI says).

Can't tell for sure, but the intake looks like a '70-'72 item, too...I can almost see the larger "hot pocket" cast into the bottom of the bottom of the intake, and the casting number's higher than the pre-'70 intake w/ small pocket, but it's not a '73+ intake w/ EGR provisions.

Now I look closer, the distributor's a Chrysler-built unit, not Prestolite, but the cap looks strange...tan body with black towers?! Closer pic, please.

Water outlet looks to have a large bracket integrally cast...maybe for the belt-driven speed governor. Is that governor really gone, DI? I know someone who could use it...

Still wanna see that carburetor.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Sadly to unencumber the beast I pulled all the 'non-essential' items off of it and put them in the scrap bin (The farmer is having my buddy cut up a bunch of obsolete equipment and donating the scrap value to some church function...)...

Sorry...

The cap in the background is a spare cheapy I had lying in the junkpile... the farmer did the right thing as the cap and rotor were Standard Motor Product parts...


-D.Idiot

strangest thing i have heard of a slant driving is at the ST,JOHN,S airport they use one in their de-icing machine to drive the pumps.

Man I'd love to take a look at it, I wonder what year it is?

not sure of the year but everytime it needs parts constantine`s phone here

haha I guess there not used to many slants around.

you runnin a shop up in CBS Terry?,

I should bring the Cuda up there sometime.
she's only bone stock right now though .

That distributor with the black posts, was a donor out of a 1964 A-108 engine I had given to me....



A couple of views of the Bendix Carb, everything looks OK, the bore is black with soot, and the throttle plate has a smidge of rust on it and is very 'stiff'... (I'm going to get that guy into the 'dip' and see if I can get it freed back up and rebuilt...)




They look to be simpler than a Holley or Carter carb for sure, too bad there is no tag to say what model number/part number...

-D.Idiot

D.I........Can you supply me with the O.D. of the carb throat, and the O.D. of that ring on the carb that that funky "gooseneck" intake tube clamps too?

I just might be interested in that gooseneck.

Roger