Why is AA used on engine number

[Don/WI]

Why do they use the AA on the engine number of 1 ton trucks when the engines are all the same? Don/WI

 

[SeaSlugs]

Because they really werent all the same -

AA trucks had a check valve ball setup for the rear main oil return tube so when they were tilted to unload grain all the oil didnt run out.

Also had a slightly heavier clutch and slightly larger clutch to move the 1.5+ tons that could be on it.

 

[Osage Orange]

Wasn't there a difference in bell housing, too? I know that H.A.M.B. hotrodders covet that bell housing so that it can accept late model Ford truck transmissions.

 

[Bob C]

Wasn't there a difference in bell housing, too? I know that H.A.M.B. hotrodders covet that bell housing so that it can accept late model Ford truck transmissions.

Yes for very late 1929-31, but it was the clutch springs that determined the engine number prefix.

Bob

 

[john charlton]

The AA trucks with the 4 speed transmission had the pedal shaft on the transmission case not the bell housing. They were shallower than a regular bell housing so lent themselves to transmission conversion .

John in windy rainy Suffolk County England .