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Old September 17th, 2015, 07:05 PM
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Default Re: Engine Serial Number

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If I look at a Motors Manual for our vintage of trucks I see that the letter on the engine codes changed from year to year. My 62 has a D block, previous had C and subsequent years had E models. Did GMC just use blocks from inventory willy nilly or was there some sort of sequence in the letter changes and use of the block.

I sort of always assumed that the letter changes followed the years of production, appears that is not correct.
This page from Jolly's site has a lot of info: http://6066gmcguy.com/EngineData.html but doesn't include dates available for all the different variations of the V6. But the letter designations had little to do with the years of production. The "C" version, standard in the bigger trucks, was a heavier duty engine than the versions available in the light duty trucks.
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