F65 Fargo kew flathead 6 workshop manual

Desperatly seeking a plymouth, dodge, engine workshop manual and vehical owners manual for an F65 Fargo Kew...

 

Bit of info here might help

Mark

Is that a KEW motor? Looks like a Plymouth motor with that engine number (used widely on other Chrysler 50's products as well as Plymouth). I think the C after the number is Commercial.

Will look in the book. Grandad's stuff is good as it looks like it applies directly out of the specs for your model (assuming they did not change the engine).

If the book says it had a KEW motor this is what the number looks like and you have a replacement.





Lang

Just done some searching.

Your motor appears to be a late 1940's Canadian built Plymouth (That is what the "C" stands for after the number). Different from the specs in Grandad's chart.

It should be a 25 inch long block.

The bore is 3 3/8" and the Stroke is 4 1/16" it is 218 cubic inch - quite a bit less than a KEW.

Any Dodge engine book will give you 90% of the correct procedures for this engine you only need the correct specs for main measurements. I will see what I have in my manuals.

Here are the manuals to cover your motor on-line.

www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/plymouth,195...,repair+manual,10335

And here is the story of where your truck was built.
www.allpar.com/world/kew.html
Lang

So you believe that a motor change was done to this Kew?

I was so confussed looking for info and this would make sense.

Sorry I have tried everything to get this up the right way.

It would appear so but I would not put anything past the Poms.

They might have put the Canadian Plymouth 218 motor(97hp) in the small trucks and the KEW 250 (135hp) motor in bigger ones. Engine changes on Dodges are easy (done a few myself) as nearly everything just bolts up and where there are differences (such as engine mounts for a particular vehicle) you can take the bits off the old one to just bolt to the new. Easy for me to say as you are trying to stretch a fuel line or an exhaust pipe an extra inch!

I would be guessing a change but still a real good old motor. Yours looks to be 1949 from the numbers


Lang

Right way up

Thanks mate. Never had that problem before. Was about to toss the scanner across the room.

Lang