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Posted by Daze
on April 26, 2009, 7:59 pm, in reply to "Re: Greg Donahue specializes in 1963 Galaxies."
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rather than a new thread, but I am glad I saw it!!! 
To find the date code you need to look at the block casting # which should be on the block down near the starter. You may need to remove the starter to see it. 
The casting # on this block is "3A12" which tells us January 12, 1963. With older fords there is no way to tell if the motor in your car is the one it started with, you can only assume. If you have a 64 and the motor was replaces with a motor made a month or two before the car was built, you would still have a matching #s car. Let me know if this all makes sense or if I can help further with casting #s
As far as the starter straining when the motor is hot, that tells me that most likely the timing is to far advanced, but there is a less likely chance the carburetor is set to rich. Check the carb first. You can do this by pulling a spark plug and looking at the color of the electrodes. If your plugs are black, which would indicate to rich a carb setting, then adjust the idle mixture screws just a touch to lean out the mix. But if the plugs are golden brown then timing is the issue and you need to back it off about 1 degree and try a hot start again.
Let us know what you find on the casting numbers and how things turn out with the hot starts
