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<font size=3>Wow,<br><br>
Hard to imagine Ford having all those shifts....<br>
<img src="cid:7.1.0.9.0.20171028162015.070c52f0@earthlink.net.0" width=488 height=281 alt="Emacs!">
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JD<br><br>
At 03:03 PM 10/28/2017, Larry Mayfield wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I heard from a guy who does this
kind of stuff for a living. He said the last “C” in the date code is
actually the shift that it was manufactured (machined) during.
1<sup>st</sup> shift is A, 2<sup>nd</sup> is B, and 3<sup>rd</sup> is
C. So my guess is that the block was cast a couple of weeks
before machining, then on the early morning if the 31<sup>st</sup> of
March it was machined and made ready for assembly. He said the
probability of fonding a matching date code down to the shift was pretty
slim. <br>
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Mayf<br>
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<b>From:</b> J D Johnson
[<a href="mailto:j_d_johnson@earthlink.net" eudora="autourl">
mailto:j_d_johnson@earthlink.net</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 28, 2017 7:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Larry Mayfield <drmayf@mayfco.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Tigers] All I have to do is learn how to type.
"5s" & "6s" do look kind of alike.<br>
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Unless I'm completely misinformed, the final letter of the assembly date
= engineering level change,<br><br>
JD<br><br>
At 05:08 AM 10/28/2017, you wrote:<br><br>
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<dd>Interesting date code you sent. What does that last “C” mean.. rest
of it says March 31st</sup>, 1966 [6=1966, C= March, 31is day of the
month, last “C” =?????]. Perhaps where it was machined? <br>
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<dd>mayf<br>
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