1910...you got one of those earliest 318 castings :d
i think there is a casting on the other side that shows the casting date.
J
10/25/1971 Wahoo! Steel Crank right? It was cast 5 days before I was born.
Probably wont have a steel crank, but it should have bushed connecting rods.
If the thin crank balancer is any indication, can kind of see it in the picture, it is a steel crank.
One more question. I have a 75 W100 pickup, but it has the drivetrain with a 318 from a 70-72. Could this crank be steel? The engine needs rebuilt and I will be replacing it over the winter with the engine from my dart.
And the -3 after the 318 simply means that the mold was repaired 3 times, -5 means five times, -14 means it was repaired 14 times..............
Well, a -1 would be better than a -14, right? Not really, how do we know that it wasn't at the end of the -1 molds life?
Inspection is the only way to tell.
Quick look is at the bottom of the cylinders, if you can see the casting line, and it looks like a crack, or a crevice..... It's not much of a block