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Re: MGB engine identification

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: MGB engine identification
From: jhoward@argus.lowell.edu (James D. Howard II)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 94 09:14 MST
   Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 23:11:48 -0400 (EDT)
   From: Randy Wilson <randy@taylor.infi.net>

   > 
   > 
   >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.
   >

I believe the three main engines used a mechanical tachometer, so
there is a tach drive coming out of the right side of the block, towards
the rear.  I recently bought a three main MGB engine to put in my MGA,
because it had this feature in common with the MGA engines.

James


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