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Good luck and have fun and noticed your email and thought would quickly
reply in the mass of FEMA line emails I am trying to knock out (had 633 emails
when power came back on after 12 days). AMC used the 258 which was also used in
the IH vehicles. It is all AMC, not IH anything. IH also used 304, 360 and 401s
in many of their vehicles starting in 72 up to around 1980. Bricklin www.bricklin.org also used AMC 360s in
1974, but AMC had trouble keeping up with demand in 1974 and so Bricklin bailed
and adapted to the Ford engine some of which covered on Bricklin's site. Back to
IH however many a person has walked by IH Travealls, school buses, and other IH
products in junkyards thru the years not realizing if they only opened the hood
it was probably a 401. The badges on the IH usually say '400' but it is AMC 401.
They used AMC engines to supplement their own V8s of 345 and 392 of which if you
ever seen one of those under hood of IH, it looks nothing like anythign AMC One
of the oldest files on my site talks about finding 401s in IH vehicles for
pennies on dollar whereas if it was in a AMC might be $700-$1500 for
engine, but if in IH, I have bought them for as little as $60 carb to pan as
many salvage yards happy to sell anything off a IH...that is before price of
steel went thru roof 5-8 years ago. You can still find many 401s on www.craigslist.com for $500-$800.
Back to the fellow who said he 'had one at one time' chances are he had one
but never figured out engine size and crawled to look at casting on side of
engine. Or a friend of friend told him that is what it was because it might have
had Saginaw (GM) type power steering pump. So can't straighten them out as this
is what mindset has been for decades you know. John Rosa used to have a neat
little short article about how just because Buick made a 401 it is not AMC 401
and Mopar 360 not AMC 360 and AMC invented the 327 6 years before Chevy made one
(1957 for AMC, 1962 for GM) and more and I used to have the small printout of
that in my gloveboxes to give to folks who insisted that my 390 was a Ford
engine, ect, and while it worked on some, others simply never leanred how to
read in 2nd grade.
Eddie Stakes
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