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Engine Identification/ Year - k8207418 - 03-07-2022
Can anyone please advise the year of this engine
It’s a 3 bearing
Thanks
RE: Engine Identification/ Year - Colin Morgan - 03-07-2022
The number on the crankcase is nearly as high as you can go - so very late 1938 or even into 1939. Cars with engine numbers that high as given on the Chassis Register were registered in 1939. Does the block have a date on it somewhere? (It may or may not be original to the crankcase.)
RE: Engine Identification/ Year - k8207418 - 03-07-2022
I will look
Not sure where a date would be
I’m trying to identify the Dynamo fitted so I can get hold of a regulator
RE: Engine Identification/ Year - A G Wood - 04-07-2022
Put a picture of the dynamo up as well, the chaps on here know these cars inside out.
Someone will be able to do a photo ID I'm sure (and probably tell you where to obtain the correct regulator as well)
RE: Engine Identification/ Year - JonE - 04-07-2022
if it IS a Ruby you are referring, then you'd be better selling the vintage dynamo (another thread on here) and getting a late dynamo and late regulator/cut out, just on cost grounds.
RE: Engine Identification/ Year - k8207418 - 04-07-2022
This is the Dynamo
I’ve been advised it’s a DEL
I may consider swapping as it’s on a Ruby mk2
RE: Engine Identification/ Year - Peter Naulls - 04-07-2022
My block has a date just above the rear end of the water inlet if that helps. The engine number is also stamped alongside it so you can tell if it's the original block.
RE: Engine Identification/ Year - k8207418 - 10-07-2022
Can you send me a pic Dave