Helpin a friend work on an old Cabover Ford with a 475 V8. Just curious, we checked the books and 477 is the same bore and stroke and I know it's basically the same engine. What are the differences that made them call one a 477 and the other a 475 ? Is it like the 361 and 359 FE based engine, one has a cast crank or what ?

 

Bump, anyone ?

 

IIRC 475 is a later, detuned to some degree smog motor.

 

Thanks, that's it ?

 

Of course there is more, took me a while to search it out:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/8...in-a-l800.html

Scroll down to Numberdummy's post, number 6.

That's about it.

If he's going to run this thing commercially he ought to look into a repower imo.....