Help me on engine code

[SKR]

Maybe I'm dumb and missed something obvious, but why are we looking at the motor to figure out whether it was a manual or automatic instead of RPO codes in the glovebox?

[MJN]

Is it hydraulic clutch or mechanical? If its mechanical the z-bar bracket on the frame under the driver's side floorboard should be rivited to the frame. Post some pictures of the truck and setup- that will help immensely with determining if it was swapped or not.

[geezer#99]

Originally Posted by SKR

Maybe I'm dumb and missed something obvious, but why are we looking at the motor to figure out whether it was a manual or automatic instead of RPO codes in the glovebox?

Because the suffix code will tell you which trans it came with.

[SKR]

Originally Posted by geezer#99

Because the suffix code will tell you which trans it came with.

I still don't understand. The SPID will tell you whether it came with an automatic or a manual (which was the original question). I know crawling in and under vehicles is some people's idea of a good time, but it would be so much easier to look in the glovebox so that the seller can tell the buyer that yes it was or no it was not originally a manual truck.

I can see if the question was if the transmission is the one that the truck left the assembly line with, but that's not the way I read it. The buyer just wants to know if it was originally an SM465 or TH400, and there's an easy way to do that.

The buyer sounds like a clown anyway. I'm not sure if I'd even go to that much effort to answer him.