52 ford eab engine ???

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i recently picked up a runnign EAB engine from a 51-52 ford truck . and i will need to be converting it to be able to get it in my 52 customline so . i will be looking for a good used set of car pumps narrow belt . and i will be needing a 3 blade fan with narrow belt pulley . and i will be needing a 52 correct car oil pan as trucks and cars had differnt oil pans on suspention . car crank pulley.
 
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Also you will need a narrow generator pulley, narrow crank pulley and possibly different carb as the trucks use a different style clamp for the oil bath air cleaner. Will need a car starter plate to go with the oil pan. Not sure of the clutch linkage on the cars as to whether or not you need the stamped steel bellhousing.
 
this is whats i baught the engine to convert it to a car this is my 1952 ford customline i took down to the frame . i have the bell housing and new motor mounts and the radiator . and someone told me too that i can leave the flywheel on cause cars and trcuks had the same flywheel that id just have to change the clutch and oressure plate and throw bearing to a 9 1/2 inch.
 
here is a pic of the engine compartment on my 52 ford customline that i want to convert the eab to fit
 

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ok ill start looking for the car parts. when i put a car oil pan on this eab it wont affect the oil pump will it is car and truck oil pump diff or same ???
 
An EAB is a car engine, not a truck engine, which would be an 8RT or 8BA. The EAB could have a truck oil pan or a car oil pan on it, each has its own oil pickup tube but the same pump. The flywheel has the same dimensions but if it was originally in a car, it may have a different pressure plate bolt pattern drilled into it.

My first question should have been, what makes you think it is an EAB? Is the block an EAB, the heads, or ??? Not unusual to find mixed up parts. Does the engine have narrow belts or wide belts?
 
the engine has round truck bell housing and has eab heads i know heads and pumps and all gets changed and etc over all these years but the way this thing looks it loks like its never been messed with . but who knows and it has wide belts and truck mount pumps . with the round hole . and it has a rear sump oil pan .
 
The oil pressure sender on the BH is a sign of car origins. Trucks had them on the Tee feeding the oil filter.
 
i know thats a bog thing with these engines almost everything is interchangable or etc u can make a car engine a truck engine and a truck engine a car engine lol i just know for it to be peiord correct for my 52 customline ill have to change the pumps to narrow belt where there have the slant mounting and ill have to put on a narrow pulley 3 blade fan and generator pulley got to be narrow and the crank pulley has to be narrow with the winged slots in it and i have to change the oil pan to a center sump pan as i call it where it has the indented round in the back of the pan to pass over the drag link and etc .
 
Unless you dig around inside (which you can when you change oil pans) there's no way of telling exactly what it is. If the crank is EAB, the block is EAB, then I'd say it's an EAB (which would be correct for your car). My truck has an EAB that was converted the other way, just as you describe, with a few exceptions.

One other clue to look at is the pointer on the timing cover for the ignition timing. Short = car, long = truck. With the truck pulley on there, I'd bet the end of the pointer is almost an inch from the pulley?
 
here is the best pic of the pointer i can get .
 

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A rebuilt engine could have come with heads but without pan or anything else that it would need to become a truck engine. Lots of trucks got 1CM or EAC 255 on the first or second rebuild. ..B.
 
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The oil pressure sender on the BH is a sign of car origins. Trucks had them on the Tee feeding the oil filter.
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The engine in my 52 and an 8ba just pulled from a 51 truck are just as pictured with the oil sending unit screwed into block. Also a 50 8ba pulled from an f3 same as pic.
 
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