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RE: Engine Number Identification - Martin Prior - 18-12-2018
(18-12-2018, 08:32 AM)Jamie Wrote: Thank you all for the information.
I had another look last night and, unless I am being obtuse, there is no starter motor fitted and neither is there provision visible to fit one. I confess that I had thought that starter motors were fitted to all models after the initial year or two of production. I have attached some more, rather dark, pictures, including one showing the actual car. The gearbox is a four speed box.
The car is in a much worse state than the picture suggests.
Jamie.
I've seen far worse, but I've never seen this combination of engine and gearbox installed in a Ruby. Something done in the car's last dying days, I suspect.
The starter for this engine would have looked like the photo below, with the starter motor facing into the cab.
RE: Engine Number Identification - Mike Costigan - 18-12-2018
You really need to be looking for the correct style of engine for the Ruby; they are readily available (you may even be able to choose a crankcase with number very near you car's original unit) and probably worth less than the early engine you have, so perhaps there will be someone interested in doing a swap maybe even with cash going your way! Make sure you get all the ancilliaries such as the forward-facing starter motor, screw-in oil filler stem, petrol pump, etc.
RE: Engine Number Identification - Chris KC - 18-12-2018
Almost certainly trashed the original engine and bunged in the nearest available substitute, a starter motor is a luxury you can easily get by without (at least you could in those days).
I recall doing something very similar with my Fiat 500 one mid-winter.
Is that a spare Martin?
RE: Engine Number Identification - Austin in the Shed - 18-12-2018
(18-12-2018, 08:32 AM)Jamie Wrote: Thank you all for the information.
I had another look last night and, unless I am being obtuse, there is no starter motor fitted and neither is there provision visible to fit one. I confess that I had thought that starter motors were fitted to all models after the initial year or two of production. I have attached some more, rather dark, pictures, including one showing the actual car. The gearbox is a four speed box.
The car is in a much worse state than the picture suggests.
Jamie.
Looks remarkably like a car I sold about 7 years ago on ebay although I'm sure that had the right engine fitted.On the one I had even the glove box had rusted through and had different number plates on the front and back.I believe the spare wheel cover had been changed.
(18-12-2018, 03:22 PM)Austin in the Shed Wrote:It isn't the same car.(18-12-2018, 08:32 AM)Jamie Wrote: Thank you all for the information.
I had another look last night and, unless I am being obtuse, there is no starter motor fitted and neither is there provision visible to fit one. I confess that I had thought that starter motors were fitted to all models after the initial year or two of production. I have attached some more, rather dark, pictures, including one showing the actual car. The gearbox is a four speed box.
The car is in a much worse state than the picture suggests.
Jamie.
Looks remarkably like a car I sold about 7 years ago on ebay although I'm sure that had the right engine fitted.On the one I had even the glove box had rusted through and had different number plates on the front and back.I believe the spare wheel cover had been changed.
RE: Engine Number Identification - Jamie - 19-12-2018
Thank you all for the information. The engine is not quite what I had assumed that it would be, I confess. I can fully understand, though, a previous owner fitting whatever they could find just to get back on the road.
I shall have to mull over what best to do and perhaps look out for a Ruby engine.
Regards,
Jamie.