Re: [AMC-list] Nash 234.8 OHV six

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- On Wed, 3/17/10, tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] Nash 234.8 OHV six
> To: "AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 12:55 PM
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:27, Frank
> Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
 Timing
> chain/cam setup is the same in design (but so is nearly
> every other inline
> 6). The timing chain housing is more complex on the
> 195.6.232 is much
> simpler; just a cover on the block casting. Funny, the
> damper oil seal is
> the same part number, probably before 1950 through the end
> of the 258 at
> least, maybe the same as the 4.0, dunno.
> 

The oil pan fastening system on the 195.6 is much more complex than the later sixes.  In fact I find it how to understand how one of these old engines could be built quickly on an assembly line. The damper is archaic too with that gasketed center piece.

Joe Fulton

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