make it #s matching

[mopar1]

 Does anybody know what Chrysler did with their warranty returned blocks ?
It would be nice to have a chance to buy back the original block.

[terrible one]

My guess is they scrapped them.

[hemigeno]

I've wondered about just such a thing, since my Daytona's original block was replaced under warranty in the fall of 1973 at Mitch Crawford Chrysler Plymouth in Raytown, MO.  The older salesman I talked to (that dealership is still in business) thought they scrapped them, but he didn't know for certain.  I also suspect that one of the mechanics might have snagged the block for his own use.  There's probably a New Yorker tooling around Kansas City with my numbers-matching block...   

[tan top]

i have also thought the same  thing .     , although  my matching  # numbers  block was removed  in the mid 80's by the second owner , and is  probably back in a mopar  roaming around   south west TEXAS  somewhere , pretty impossible to try to locate it

[Shakey]

Perhaps they were sent back to Chrysler for evaluation.  If the team of folks evaluating and inspecting the warranty returned blocks started noticing trends, that would lead to engineering changes which in turn woukld put out a better product in the future.

But I'll bet they were just scrapped.   

[253862656971]

I still have my block.  I really need to trace the history of my 69 charger.  She saw a hard ol' life.  The original motor grenaded so hard that when it threw one of the rods it actually dented the crankshaft!  I forget how many rods came undone but I think 4 were visibley mangled and the other 4 probably didn't fair much better.  One rod broke in half.  Another had the bearing melted to the crank.  One of the cam bearings had spun or something.  The skirt of one piston was broke and I found the pieces in various places of the block.  The cam lobes got chewed up.  All in all it was pretty bad.

The motor was replaced with a factory replacement motor but I still have the original so I don't know what was supposed to happen to the original motors.

[Todd Wilson]

Perhaps they were sent back to Chrysler for evaluation.  If the team of folks evaluating and inspecting the warranty returned blocks started noticing trends, that would lead to engineering changes which in turn woukld put out a better product in the future.

Thats probably what happened to it. After they were done looking at it it got scrapped.


Todd

[John_Kunkel]

In most cases the factory area rep made the decision on what to do with warranty parts, the factory wanted some of them returned for failure anaysis but if they were swamped with too much of a certain part the rep would instruct the dealer to dispose of the part locally which often meant tossing in a dumpster.

Some of us "old timers" can remember foraging through dumpsters looking for usable parts; much of my TF 727 stockpile originated from dealer dumpsters. Nowadays metal parts are probably sent to recyclers for cash.