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08-15-2018, 11:38 AM | #1 |
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Model B Engine Number
The number is AB5023876 any help thanks..
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08-15-2018, 12:04 PM | #2 |
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Re: Model B Engine Number
Model B engines had the pad to stamp for the serial number but it was never used (exception for a very few locations that required the engines be numbered, and in these cases they were stamped locally and not at the factory). The Model B serial number was stamped into a pad on the flywheel housing. How about a picture of the number you are looking at? The number you give is too high for a Model A or B engine. The stars before and after the number are missing. Except for those facts the number might have been stamped by someone removing a Model A engine and replacing it with a Model B engine..
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08-15-2018, 12:44 PM | #3 |
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Re: Model B Engine Number
As per Charlie Stephens comments, I have found a number of B engines that had been stamped with numbers of all kinds, some with Model A numbers (with and without stars) and some with numbers of unknown significance. The numbers were stamped on the pad on the side of the block, a casting featured retained from the Model A era but not used by Ford during and after the Model B era. Most of mine had come from industrial applications and were of the "diamond block" type that were manufactured by Ford from 1935 - 1941. My current Model B engine came from a railroad "track speeder" out of Shasta County in California. It is stamped DR 5675, whatever that means.
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08-15-2018, 12:53 PM | #4 |
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Re: Model B Engine Number
The number fits in the July 1932 range.
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08-15-2018, 01:31 PM | #5 |
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That new number sure changed the question. The number still should appear on the flywheel housing and not the pad on the block, except for a few very isolated cases. I get February 1932 for the manufacturer of the engine, http://www.fordgarage.com/pages/ABenginenumbers.htm#C7
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08-15-2018, 02:22 PM | #7 |
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Re: Model B Engine Number
thanks Charlie and others for info and yes number was stamped on the flywheel housing. The stamp on block does not make sense maybe a British thing..
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08-15-2018, 02:54 PM | #8 |
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08-16-2018, 05:40 AM | #9 |
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Re: Model B Engine Number
Yes English B blocks are stamped on the block itself with 'curly' script
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08-17-2018, 11:58 AM | #10 |
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Re: Model B Engine Number
Some state governments in Australia require an engine no. Even in the old days.
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CA required engine numbers also. Its not unusual to find a V8 here with a number on it.
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