Okay, gulp. Here we go… Fingers-crossed.

The stamping on the passenger side reads:
v392 e
12241 35
this is the truck that this engine supposedly came out of. The engine was sitting on a roller stand behind the truck in a garage in daytona beach florida. The seller told me that this Scout came from Colorado. That’s all I know.

And here it is sitting in my ’72 Scout II.

The way it looked inside when I opened it up to begin the pre-lube process.

The ‘water-neck’ coming off the thermostat housing was missing from this engine. I found some very large pieces of it(I believe) behind the water pump when I took it off to replace it with a new one. So, I am planning on using the one from the ’72.