Vehicle part?

[cudamark]

I found this cast aluminum piece at an old home site. I can't find any casting numbers or brand name anywhere on it. It looks to me like a cooling system part but don't know for sure. The length is approximately 6 1/8" long and 2 5/8" in diameter. It looks to have one 1" hose connection in the middle and a 5/8" hose connection on one end. If the other end is a hose connection, the hose would have to have an I.D. of about 2 3/4". It also has a flange connection that probably would have been mounted and sealed with a gasket and five 3/16" attaching bolt holes. There are also two small bosses on the outside that aren't threaded and the holes in their center don't go through into the main chamber. Not worth anything in it's broken state but an oddity. Familiar to anyone?

 

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[cudamark]

Don't everybody answer at once! Somebody has to have seen one of these sometime in their life.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Fuel filter housing? Maybe you screw a fuel filter into the compartment?

 

[cudamark]

That would be some pretty big fittings for fuel. I don't see any threads on it anywhere so I don't know how a filter cartridge would be mounted and sealed. Looks to me to be more cooling related than fuel but maybe a big diesel engine would use something that size?

 

[bradyboy]

Sure looks like a transfer case
Maybe for a steering column ?
BradyBoy

 

[rick67]

definitely coolant. The 1" lines for heating. The 2 3/4 was the flex to the radiator. It was mounted directly to block. My first choice of engine would be Detroit. They had a way of making diesel parts look barbaric.

 

[cudamark]

That was my thought also but I've just never seen one like it. Being aluminum, I can't imaging it being used with exhaust. There are no threads anywhere on it. The only machined surface is the 5 bolt flange. My thinking is that it mounts on the cooling return by the water pump. Usually, if it was on the outlet side, it would be a cover for a thermostat. No evidence that it would be used for that as most thermostats are round, not oval.

 

[rick67]

That was my thought also but I've just never seen one like it. Being aluminum, I can't imaging it being used with exhaust. There are no threads anywhere on it. The only machined surface is the 5 bolt flange. My thinking is that it mounts on the cooling return by the water pump. Usually, if it was on the outlet side, it would be a cover for a thermostat. No evidence that it would be used for that as most thermostats are round, not oval.

Thermostats (many had 2) are located on top of truck diesels, That piece would have been on side close to bottom of block. It had no color? Diesel manufacturers use specific paint like Ford and Chevy did.

 

[rick67]

I tried to find exact pic of the part with no luck. what I'm talking about wasn't for the pto it was for an Exhaust lift of whatever was attached. It was an old farmall that I saw this on. I remember because we eliminated it and had to make a plate for the manifold to cover the hole. Anyhow maybe this will jog someones memory who knows this stuff way better than I do! lol For all I know your part could be to a toilet flusher in an out house!lol

You probably had a Super Charger or a Turbo on it.

 

[rick67]

that part is still in use on tractors hauling powdered portland cement to blow it into a cilo. Never used one to know the name of it.

 

[cudamark]

Scratch my idea! It looked cast iron in the pic. the part I was talking about was cast iron. I missed that part in the original post, that it was aluminium.although it does not even resemble aluminium in the pics? Maybe from being in the ground.

Yeah, that puppy has been in the ground a while. No paint left on it if it ever had any. Definitely aluminum or similar alloy.