Re: [AMC-list] Nash 234.8 OHV six

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

Other than being OHV the 232/258 has very little in common with the older engine. The 232 was a clean slate design by the same engineer hired to make the first AMC V-8, David Potter. Some of the engineers who worked on it *might* have been junior engineers at Nash in the 40s and 50s, but that's doubtful. Oh, and the insert bearings -- but they are different sizes. There are no parts interchanges. 

I put the 232 family under the 235/252 six in my "AMC Six Geneaology" article only because they are both OHV and that's where that family more or less fit in. 

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:01:26 -0400
From: William 'Chip' Lamb <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>

The 1940 and earlier OHV 6 engine had much more in common with its 
forebears. Major revisions took place in 1941 and again in 1950. It's 
probably fair to say that the 1950-later engine (bumped up to 252 
around that time) has a lot in common with the 232/258 for decades to come.

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