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Re: MGB engine identification

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: MGB engine identification
From: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 94 12:22:42 EDT
>>I'm trying to verify that I have a 5-main engine.  Is there any way, 
>>other than the engine tag, to tell without dropping the pan?
>>
>>The engine number is kinda wierd: 18G (followed by something that looks 
>>like a D, guess it could be the bottom half of a B) -WE-H 20791.
>>
>>tnx!
>>
>>
>My info suggests that it couldn't be 18GB-WE... If it were 18GB it would 
have read 18GB/UH...  and that would have been a three main.  If the WE is 
clearly legible I would suggest that it is 18GF (or H, or K) /WE... which 
were put in cars starting in 1968, and are therefore five main engines.
>
>I'm getting this from page 5 of my Moss catalog.
>
>Anyone else out there have info on this?
>
>Will Zehring



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