If the engine is unmolested, there would have to be an "L" in the Hercules ID in order for there to be an "L" in the Chris Craft ID. And a Hercules QXLD ID matches up to a KL or other KL variant Chris Craft ID. On the second sheet provided by knotty 48, you can see how a QXD Hercules designation matches up to a Chris Craft K designation. You can look at my old posts to see the posts and pictures. I've also been in the original Hercules plant several times over the years. There are a few old Herc employees working there and I have been in the facility and talked to them and seen the record depository.Įven though it was impossible to dyno the engines going to Chris Craft, they still have the serial number records and can tell which engines were opposite rotation. These records still exist today at a different, but related Hercules company in Massillon, Ohio. Normally Hercules would dynomometer run the engines and add the results to the engine records. Chris Craft's engine division added their own heads, manifolds, carbs, bellhousing/covers/mounts and other items to make a running marine engine out of an industrial short block. Hercules supplied the engines to Chris Craft in short block form. In the case of a "K" and "M" series engines at least, there is a correlation between the Hercules ID number found on the pad at the parting line between the head and block, and the Chris Craft number found on the manifold tag. The manifold tag gives you the engine serial number and Chris Craft engine division's Chris Craft number for their marine conversion end product. For now please help me identify this big Hercules, I'll go about replacing the electrics, will rebuild the carb and we'll see if it fires up. I acutally have another one stashed way, New Chrysler Marine, but that is another story for later. Now I would like to resurrect it, and perhaps even get it back into service. Many years ago I attempted to start this motor but to no avail, so I pickled it and there it has sat. I hauled the motor out years ago when I transplanted a 1959 vintage small block 283 set up (actually a 327 now) into my 1956 17' Sportsman, so there is the big clue. It is lubed and will turn over, but it has never run in twenty years or more. I have this big chunk of iron in my basement on a steel wheel dolly and it has been here at the ranch for many years.
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