Posted by David Sherman on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 at 11:28AM :
In Reply to: Re: Continental Multi/Fuel HyperCycle 6cyl Engine?? posted by C. Garbee on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 at 8:59AM :
Yes, I believe the M35 came out around 1950-52 and the basic design has been unchanged since. There were lots of minor improvements over the years, and one that must have seemed like a step backwards -- replacing the automatic transfer case with a manually-actuated one. Plenty of old ones in the service were upgraded with multifuel engines, modern safety lights, west coast mirrors, and maybe an air-ride seat and a hot-water personell heater. A gas-to-multifuel engine swap is supposed to include swapping the 3052 tranny for a 3053, the latter having an overdrive 5th-gear for better top speed with the slower-turning diesel engine. The shifting information plate on the dashboard doesn't seem to have always gotten swapped at the same time, though, and the shift pattern is different. The old trucks used metal-shell wiring connectors rather than the newer all-rubber ones. My 52 Reo had strange sealed-beam headlamps that had a plastic lens and metal shell.