Lost engine number

Don't worry, if you are otherwise legal then there will never be a problem. Since the engine number is only riveted on then you could always fit the one from the original engine, after all, it won't hurt anyone, will it?

mrcheerful

Sure it's not stamped somewhere on the block as well? IIRC BMC A Series etc did this.

It's a 998 A-series, but no sign of any other numbers other than 950 cast into it. Never mind, a trivial matter.

Get some number & letter punches, 'invent' a new engine number, stamp in onto the block and submit the new number to the DVLA. This method certainly works for chassis numbers, anyway... well, it worked for me about 6 or 7 years ago...

Simon H

I can't see the problem, after all if you apply to the DVLA for a new chassis number they'll issue you one. As they won't issue engine numbers I see no reason why you shouldn't invent one. Give it the correct prefix code for the engine and pick a suitably high random number. Stamp it in and away you go.

Alex

Here this plate was always removed and the block stamped. If the problem did arise them the registering authority would issue a new number

I remember seeing pics of both the plate and where it was stamped - but not in the only w/s manual I now possess - for the Midget. Perhaps it was in the driver's handbook?

If you acid etch the block the original number will show.

Provided the area hasn't been heated, that is. A good pro thief knows this, heating takes the stress patterns that acid etching can show out of the casting altogether.

Just write it on with a CD-marker pen. The DVLA don't care about engine numbers!

Where? I can only find the metal tags on my '62 and '64 engines.

A-series engines only have an aluminium plate rivetted onto the top face of the block. If the block has been decked then the plate will have been removed. I don't see how you can detect the number as the plate is embossed from underneath before being fitted.

Perhaps my memory is hazy. ;-) I seem to remember the owner's handbook showing the locations.

The 1962 and 1963 handbooks don't say :-) But there is a big "850" stamped into the 'back' of the block, if that's what you meant.

-- Howard Rose

IIRC, it's not stamped, but cast.

As I have mentioned previously, here the plate has to be removed and the engine number stamped into the block. This has to be done prior to the first registration.

will one hoot be enough? number. The machine shop destroyed the number of course, as it's rivetted to

still have

Sorry, I meant cast...

-- Howard Rose

OK, but that's a local requirement. The only block I have that's been stamped is on an engine rebuilt by Swiftune and it has their number on it.