It is located at the rear right hand side of the block. It is about half way down the block and it is facing downwards when the block is upright. As an example you will see something like this D2AE-CA 2 D 29
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This casting number is for a 351 Cleveland big block engine from 1972....With Ford, they began using this form of block casting in the late 1950's. They assigned each decade a letter which begins the casting number. 1950 began the coding with letter 'B'. Each subsequent decade received the following letter. The first number after the first letter is the year of that decade in which the part was modeled for.This means that your block casting number D2AE-CA is for a:D = 1970's2 = 1972This piece has a casting number for 1972.The remainder of the casting number tells you about the part number and engineering number...thus it's a 351 Ford Cleveland big block engine designed for a 1972 model.
Front Right (Passenger)
The gap on the 351 Cleveland changes timing. Adjust the point gap until it is at 28-32 and begin timing then.
not enough gas money to find out ========================================================== My 1971 Ford Mustang fastback with a 351 Cleveland 4 barrel was rated at ( 285 brake horsepower ) from the factory
Windsor 351, is a small block. 351 Cleveland, is a big block. The 351M, stands for "modified" and is a windsor (small) block, with Cleveland (big block) heads.
1984 Ford 351/302 crankshaft balancer (vibration damper). The 351 had a 28 oz and the 302 had a 50 oz damper.
If I remember correctly the 351 Windsor has a vertically mounted thermostat that is mounted in the end of the intake manifold The 351 Cleveland thermostat is mounted horizontally in the engine block by the distributor
The bell housing has to be replaced to bolt up to a 351 cleveland
Look on the value covers, windsor has 6 bolts. The cleveland has 8 bolts.
Early Ford made 3 351 ci motors. 351 cleveland, 351 windsor and 351 M for modified.
My 1971 Mustang fastback had a 351 Cleveland 4 barrel