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Re: Engine Numbers

To: John Harris <jharris@wimsey.com>
Subject: Re: Engine Numbers
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 17:26:50 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, John Harris wrote:

> Lads and lassies of the Triumph persuasion,
> a small concern but one raised by this thread, the block in my '71 GT6 has
> a shaved space for a serial number but has no number. Can anyone tell me
> why this is so?

I have seen one or two engines like this and was told that they'd been 
factory replacement engines that somehow just didn't get numbered. A bit 
more likely, though, is the possibility that the block has been "decked" 
in the past, and enough metal was taken off to obliterate the number?

--Andy

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