I cant find one The log book says "unknown" My local dealer looked it up on the computer and found a number that its meant to have. Can anyone tell me exactly where its meant to be?
Is it possible not to have a number? Can you get a number put on?
(Going a long way abroad, and you can have trouble at borders without proof that you havent done some shady deal and sold your original engine along the way !)
ray
In message , ray newport writes
It is on the flat (horzontal) part of the engine block behind the injection pump. At the very top of the block:
whilst standing looking into engine bay from front of landrover , on left hand side of cylinder block right at front of block and just below cylinder head it has engine number stamped in large letters and numbers .
it will have something like 16L15939A although i dont know what actual numbers relate to youre year .
if you have no number there take a closer look to see if on area it should be it has been ground off with angle grinder or if someone has used a carbide burr to remove number .
the actual number can be retreived with specialist eqpt used by police .
if no engine number is there then chances are the engine is a ringer , it could be a recon engine but usually they would display the orignal number they came with from factory , none of the remanufacturers would usually remove and engine number for a reason other than it was a little chaud .
unfortunately many a landrover or discovery get made into vehicles containing parts from other vehicles .
did you do an HPI check on the vehicle at all, did it check out clear or not .
for info there should be a VIN plate in the engine bay , and also one at bottom of windscreen just under where tax disc goes clearly visible from outside of car .
chassis number is on drivers side right at front just back from bumper , that should tally up with the VIN number .
VIN is something like SALLDVAFVA957000 but again i dont know what corresponds with 1998 disco .
i did once almost buy a lovely looking 110 landy , but luckily i did HPI check and it came up as 2 vehicles , one which was written off in
2000 and the other which was declared as being scrapped in 2001 .there was no VIN pl ate in the engine bay but was one in windscreen , chassis number was tampered with as was engine number .
it had a lovely chassis, nice and black coated , but one mistake, the wiring harness was on outside of chassis , a sure telltale of someone working on it extensively .
you might see something like GB97 or GB98 stamped into chassis in various places also .
Marc Draper wrote:
thanks guys, found it! certainly helps to know where to look and what kind of number you're looking for ray
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