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Identify this Block - Tony Press - 24-06-2021

A friend recently received this among spares for a job he is working on:


   

   

   

   

   

   

RE: Identify this Block - Charles P - 24-06-2021

Nice early 30's 10 stud block.
Ideal for my 10 stud crankcase, if it's surplus Tony, since I don't have a block!

Charles
Additional thoughts:
No webbing or extended flange
Knock in core plugs not screw in. 
Either or both of these would be on a factory casting.

Is it repro?
Hutchings or elsewhere?

C

RE: Identify this Block - Tony Betts - 24-06-2021

charles.

it looks to be a 9 stud block.

previous user has only used 8 studs?

so are the 8 in standard position. were as they are usually moved around to get 10 studs in.

tony
although there are 4 studs on the valve chest so an unconvensional 10 stud.

the valve chest is very crudly cast, and the seats for the barrel nuts havent been back cut. so id suggest its not made by austin. 

a more modern manufacturer.

tony

RE: Identify this Block - Charles P - 24-06-2021

Doh! - I hadn't spotted that. Bizarre

I wonder what it was for.

c

RE: Identify this Block - Tony Press - 24-06-2021

And the valve chest stud is over the oil pump ?

RE: Identify this Block - Tony Betts - 24-06-2021

well spotted tony, that could be fun.

it looks like they may have had extra studs over the cam, now half holes.

and tony g, could you tell me if those core plugs can be removed or are they a machined surface. they look rather perfect.

thanks tony.

RE: Identify this Block - Tony Press - 24-06-2021

Tony.

I know no more than the photographs show .

Could it be Reliant  or American ?

RE: Identify this Block - squeak - 25-06-2021

I think Bantam Tony. I have an engine here and the crankcase is completely different, as well as being reversed. I was told it came over here from America during the war to run a generator.

RE: Identify this Block - Tony Press - 25-06-2021

Hi Russell

Does the Bantam crankcase have the  10 block studs ?

Tony.

RE: Identify this Block - Henry Harris - 25-06-2021

It's a 1937 - 1941 American Bantam