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Can you identify this distributor? It is a model 635B and I need to find out what year it is from. I plan on listing it on ebay because quit frankly I don't know what to ask for it. I also have a car that I don't know the year it was made. The engine serial number is 2596783. This car is a wreck. It has been sitting on the side of a lake for about 40 years. I think it is around a 1926 or 1927 but I would like to find out for sure. It use to be a Tudor sedan but the top half of the body is missing so it is now a touring sedan. To look at the car you would never think in a million years it would run but it runs better then my 29 with a new engine. I decorated it like the Beverly hillbilly car and have been on TV and had a local radio announcer do his show while riding in the back sitting in a rocking chair during a parade. I can post a picture of it if anyone is interested. Thanks, Paul http://image.inkfrog.com/pix/junkyard4/Distributor.JPG
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The 635-B distributor was used in the later half of 1927 and all of 1928. Look for the block casting number and date on the right side of the engine to determine the year. The 1927 cylinder head used a single port exhaust while the 1928 head used a dual port exhaust.
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Where the casting number was somebody cut a hole and installed a fuel pump. The distributor in the car is a 629M but it may not be original. The exaust manifold is on the passenger side and intake on the drivers side. Two cylinders go into one port so there are only two ports for intake and two ports for exaust. Could this be a 1925 or 1926?
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A couple of thoughts: The year of engine would not necessarily tell us what year the car is - as the car could well have had an engine swap during its life, not uncommon. Let's look at some more obvious indicators. What is the wheelbase of the car? A '25-6-7 would be 103", a '28 is 107". (This is measured from the center-of-the-front-hub to the center-of-the-rear-hub (or hubcap, if they're still there) with front wheels aimed straight ahead, in case you never did this measurement before.) What does the front of the radiator shell look like? At the top center, a "turned down point" would be a '27. An imbedded oval with a bowtie would be a '28, etc. & a '25 - 26 are also distinctive. What is the configuration of the instruments on the dash? Answers to these will identify the correct year of the car, regardless of which engine it may presently have in it (sounds like a '28 engine from what you have said above - but that would also be the most likely candidate for an engine swap into an older 4 cyl Chevy). Post some pictures, especially front view, and a shot of the dash, then we can all tell quickly. 
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The car is definitely either a 1925 or a '26, per the shape of the aluminum radiator shell, the dash, and the wheelbase. I cannot put my finger on any detail that would tell me definitely which of those two years it is, though. All the differentiating details are gone, or modified. I don't suppose there is still a body ID tag with numbers on it, on the seat or floorboard area? (rectangular, aluminum.) Perhaps someone else will see a detail I'm missing?
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'26 with '28 engine. Highly modified. 
RAY Chevradioman http://www.vccacolumbiariverregion.org/1925 Superior K Roadster 1928 Convertible, Sport, Cabriolet 1933 Eagle, Coupe 1941 Master Deluxe 5-Passenger Coupe 1950 Styleline Deluxe 4-Door Sedan 1950 Styleline Deluxe Convertible 2002 Pontiac, Montana, Passenger Van 2014 Impala, 4-Door Sedan, White Diamond, LTZ 2017 Silverado, Double Cab, Z71, 4X4, White, Standard Bed, LTZ If you need a shoulder to cry on, pull off to the side of the road. Death is the number 1 killer in the world.
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No id tag. One other thing they did is install blocks onto the head to reduce the space in each cylinder to raise compression. What makes you think it is a 1928 engine?
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Raymundo is right again!....... engine has been souped up! as we used to say! (intake and downdraft carb, oil filter ) what else?( horns valve cover, sparkplug wires thru the block, oil filler and crankcase breather...)  :cool2: The body data plate is visable why don't you just post the data from it????
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The brake and clutch pedals appear to be late
1927 or 1928 and later.
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The brake and clutch pedals appear to be late
1927 or 1928 and later.
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Old chevyman you can say that again! (and you did!) I would also think almost anything includeing the pedals, instruments wheels, gearshift knob might not be original. looks like a Cuban or Fillipino version of a Chevrolet, a put -me-together with what I found at the Navy base! (some welding and special assembly required)
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'26 with '28 engine. Highly modified.
RAY Chevradioman http://www.vccacolumbiariverregion.org/1925 Superior K Roadster 1928 Convertible, Sport, Cabriolet 1933 Eagle, Coupe 1941 Master Deluxe 5-Passenger Coupe 1950 Styleline Deluxe 4-Door Sedan 1950 Styleline Deluxe Convertible 2002 Pontiac, Montana, Passenger Van 2014 Impala, 4-Door Sedan, White Diamond, LTZ 2017 Silverado, Double Cab, Z71, 4X4, White, Standard Bed, LTZ If you need a shoulder to cry on, pull off to the side of the road. Death is the number 1 killer in the world.
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Yeah , you should see what the Filopinos did with old WWII Jeeps 3/4 ton Dodges and Cubans still do with Chevys from the 30s, 40s and early 50s and see some of their homemade Direct Tv Dishes...
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Fuel pump and rocker arm cover are confusing. Could this be an Oldsmobile engine?
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The fuel pump and rocker arm cover was an add on.
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I just wanted to throw in my two cents worth
1925-26 alum. rad shell, trucks were steel.
Late 1926-27-28 Steering column :confused: , controls on top of steering wheel. can't see if there is a hole in steering tube for a locking ign switch, 27-28 car.
1925-26 car or 27-28 truck light switch.
1925 Speedometer. Nickle rim and the AC lettering painted on. 26 had alum. rim and the AC pressed in.
1928 pedals are rectangle, 27 are similar but oval.
1927-28 Transmission
1928 Motor, side covers over push rods
1927 water pump
1928 Head, two port exhaust
1925-26 Headlights
I hope this gives you a better idea of what parts the car was made of.
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