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Re: Block

To: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>, "Larry & Sandi Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
Subject: Re: Block
From: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:44:19 -0500
Cc: "spridgets list" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
In-reply-to: <003601bf1ef5$82f3cda0$8d7b503f@default>
Reply-to: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
And if it proves to be a 1098..... decide if early 10CG with 1.75" mains or
later 10CC with 2"
Peter C

At 09:30 AM 10/25/1999 , Wiedemeyer wrote:
>If all that stuff that usually identifies the engine is missing, then you
>can check the cylinder diameter, which, if it's a 1098cc engine, should be
>64.58mm.  If it's considerably larger than that, then it's a 1275.  (It
>can't be a 948cc because it doesn't have a hole on the side for the
>mechanical fuel pump that all 948s have.)
>
>Bob
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry & Sandi Miller <millerls@ado13.com>
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Date: Sunday, October 24, 1999 11:20 PM
>Subject: Re: Block
>
>
>>Thanks for all the answers.
>>
>>1. It has side covers.
>>
>>2. No hole for a fuel pump. But there is a hole with a screw in it about
>>where the left hand stud for the pump would be.
>>
>>3. It has a bump to the left of where the pump would be but no tag and no
>>hole for a screw or rivet
>>
>>4. There is nothing stamped on the block relating to engine size, only
>MOWOG
>>and various numbers in various places.
>>
>>5. The engine id tag is long gone.
>>
>>This was from Crash
>>"If there is no fuel pump cut out then it would be a "big main" 1098."
>>
>>This sounds like it may be the answer.
>>
>>I've been looking in OSM and have not found anything yet.
>>
>>Larry Miller
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@exit109.com>
>>To: Larry & Sandi Miller <millerls@ado13.com>
>>Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 7:30 PM
>>Subject: Re: Block
>>
>>
>>> I forgot, 1275s had no embossing, they had a tag riveted to the front
>>> side of the block (same side) if there is a big rivet but no aluminum
>>> tag, it may be a 1275, all 1275s had no side covers.
>>>
>>> --
>>>  Frank
>>>  Drive it or give it to somebody that will
>>>  http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/
>>>
>>


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