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Re: Engine ID help (1098?)

To: "gerard" <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>, "Frank Clarici" <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Subject: Re: Engine ID help (1098?)
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:51:25 -0700
Cc: "spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Organization: Morriservice
References: <3F56A0C7.2080103@exit109.com> <a05210600bb7ca5ffd3a1@[209.209.93.61]>
I just finished a Postal Van engine and it has a tag on it of
10V/189E/L60217.  It's a bit different, but still not a "G" with 2" mains.

You can interchange harmonic balancers with pressed steel pulleys, and the
flywheel will have to remain 1098 with a 1098 cover.  That's what it's
drilled for, anyway.

Later, Paul A

----- Original Message ----- 
From "gerard" <pixelsmith at gerardsgarage.com>
To: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Cc: "spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: Engine ID help (1098?)


> rank,
>
> Somewhere I either have or saw a listing of all the codes used for
> particular A-series cars. I searched all over for it but can't
> remember where I have it. The only other thing I can think of is that
> there were rebuilt postal engines for Morris Minors, but I don't know
> how they were coded. Paul A probably knows though.
>
> Gerard
>
> At 10:17 PM -0400 9/3/03, Frank Clarici wrote:
> >I have this engine here, it came with my latest bugeye (on the floor
> >not bolted in) The ID tag says... 8G 150 W  3653 and it has AA
> >stamped under the numbers.
> >Ok, so it's an 803 or an 850? Nope. All the characteristics of a
> >1098 but no 1098 or 1100 stamp or tag.
> >It has side lifter covers, 7.25" clutch, stamped steel front pully.
> >Now the weird stuff.....It has a blanked off (factory cast) fuel
> >pump block off, a 1275 type plastic dip stick tube, a 2" EN16T crank
> >but with only 4 bolts for the 1098 flywheel. It has a pin driven oil
> >pump. The pistons measure 2.54 just like a 1098. Didn't 2" main
> >1098s have a harmonic balancer on the pully? Mini's did.
> >Is this the "Let's use what's left and what's new" to make the very last
1098?
> >It has never been apart. all the lock tabs were never undone. All
> >std bearings and pistons, not too bad for wear, and sludged up like
> >I never saw before.
> >It is a rear wheel drive engine and I have to say it is a 1098.
> >My questions are....
> >
> >What year/model could this have come out of?
> >Can I use this 2" crank in a 1275 block but with the 1098 clutch due
> >to the flywheel bolt pattern?
> >Can I stick a harmonic balancer on it?
> >Or does anybody want to buy a 1098?
> >--
> >Frank Clarici
> >Toms River, NJ
> >Down to just a few Sprites
> >http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut


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