Inliners International Forums General Discussion Engines What are the differences between truck and car 235

There is one rub here. In 55 there were two different versions of the 235. One for cars with manual transmission, and another for cars with auto transmission. The blocks for the stick cars came with solid lifters and the blocks were not machined/drilled for hydraulic lifters. The blocks for the auto trans cars came with hydraulic lifters. So while you can run hydraulic or solid lifters in a block that was originally machined for hydraulic lifters, you cannot use hydraulic lifters in a block that was originally a manual trans motor. This distinction ended in 55 and for 56 and up, all passenger car motors came with hydraulic lifters. That being said, to my knowledge, all trucks with 235 or 261 motors came with stick transmission so solid lifters and no hydraulic lifters. Your earlier post noted that comp cams had ground you a hydraulic profile cam and lifters so while you can use the truck motor, you can't use your cam and lifters.

The above notwithstanding, you should get the casting date from the block in the truck and the Alfa numeric stamping from the distributor pad and post back and maybe we can sort out exactly what block you have.