They should have used hieroglyphs, or perhaps Linear A or B, or maybe even cuneiform. Linear A will be good because I believe it has not been deciphered.... so only Ford guys will understand it, anyway.


Lawrenceville, GA

But the real puzzle is why numbers? What have they got against letters or even chisel marks? chuck in NH

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

And then pretty soon you'll want our toilet flush vortex to rotate clockwise and put more than one trailer on an over the road tractor....wait, we already do that.

Now that we have got you agreeing that our engines are numbered correctly all we need is to get the steering wheel on the RIGHT side as well.

Regards

Rick - West Australia
Do Y Blocks Downunder run upside down? Gravity Sucks!!

Several, Several times but not from writing in stone, more from chizzling off rusted out nuts etc.

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

Billy, did you hit your hand with the hammer? 

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

I didn't know if you were talking about a 6 cylinder or an 8 cylinder but the 6's are numbered from 1 to 6 and the eights I believe are numbered from 1 thru 8.

On the other hand, do you know why in hebrew they read from bottom right to left? If you are right handed, try chizling in stone from top left to right and you will find it is a lot easier from bottom right to left and up the page.

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

You think that the engineers are very logical about how engine cylinders are numbered and then you find out the famous 1948 Jaguar XK straight six DOHC engine is numbered 6 5 4 3 2 1 FRONT TO BACK. Go figure. Pete

Actually - in the world of construction equipment design where I earned my "stripes" as a mechanical engineeer - the system is more "Autocratic" than "Democratic". Basically, its virtually military- there is a fellow placeed in charge ...... and he decides, no voting allowed. I have worked in organizations where (many years later) - you could identify the responsible project engineer who directed the work by the final appearance and function of the product.

Whenever you see a piece of machinery that was designed by committee - had no one's clear stamp of direction - its usually a total kluge!!!

In the ancient world of hand drafting (in the USA) - the layout of the engine block would have had a prominent overhead view with the front of the block at left. (Always a top and left side view - front and rear views at the option of the creator) And the cylinders would be numbered left to right across the top view of the page - and the second row of cylinders the the same.......makes perfect sense to me. I still have .... and this is thirty years after the fact......a callouse on my right hand where the mechanical pencil fit in my fingers. It took a lot of years before I ceased to be in the bottom part of the "food chain" and someone else did the drawing for me.

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

A little scary that the "Ausie" way is the actual correct way since I believe on a Y, the drivers side cylinder is the closest to the front, by about the width of a con rod.  It is interesting what a room full of engineers can come up with as a consensus.