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Thanks for your reply. I thought that the small tab to the rear lefthand side of the block should have the engine identification number. The car in question has a tab with an engineered top face, no number. The vendor sugests that the number may have been 'skimmed' off during rebuild. What, in your opinion, is the best way forward. There is no reason to expect that the engine and chassis don't belong to each other. I would, however, like to know for sure.

Future purchasers may not be as trusting as I. Decking the block is perfectly reasonable, and sensible, but it does not have to involve machining off the number.... That suggests to me either a machinist of limited competence, or a dodgy deal of one sort or another somewhere along the time line. Without an original number it's not a TR5 engine, it's a Triumph 6-pot and that's all you can say. Personally I couldn't give a monkey's toss for the engine's origins, I'm more concerned with whether it does the job (and how well) than where it's been.

Browse and Read Triumph Tr6 Engine Serial Numbers Triumph Tr6 Engine Serial Numbers Spend your few moment to read a book even only few pages. Reading book is not. Oct 31, 2014 - Hi all A Triumph Tiger / Saint ( ex Police TR6) I'm looking at buying has the following non-matching serial numbers Frame is TR6P GE26247 Engine is. Sep 16, 2005 - Jeremiah The E in the engine Serial number just means that it is a Engine SN. The U appeared in the engine SN beginning of '72 model year for export particularly to NA. All engines with prefix CC are before '73. So yes your engine is 1972. BUT.The main change point was at Engine SN CC.

However, the average TR5 buyer is likely to attach considerable importance (for which read ackers, spondoolahs) to the presence or otherwise of an original engine. That may be misplaced priority, but then if the buyer had any sense he'd save himself some money and buy a 4A or a 6 instead of paying a silly premium for a 5.

Cheers, Alec. Decking the block is perfectly reasonable, and sensible, but it does not have to involve machining off the number.... That suggests to me either a machinist of limited competence, or a dodgy deal of one sort or another somewhere along the time line.

Without an original number it's not a TR5 engine, it's a Triumph 6-pot and that's all you can say. Personally I couldn't give a monkey's toss for the engine's origins, I'm more concerned with whether it does the job (and how well) than where it's been. Driver Perc 6i. However, the average TR5 buyer is likely to attach considerable importance (for which read ackers, spondoolahs) to the presence or otherwise of an original engine.

That may be misplaced priority, but then if the buyer had any sense he'd save himself some money and buy a 4A or a 6 instead of paying a silly premium for a 5. Cheers, Alec. How To Install Windows 7 On Msi Windpad 10 more. Hi Mike, not my chart, credit to Chris Witor! As for crossover of numbers, your guess is as good as mine - engineering change records might tell you, but even that doesn't account for anomalies. If you were trying to get cars out and components were short, you made do with what you had in stock, wheeeooo an anomaly has just been built.

Introducing The Mattson 2 Rare. Then again early days of PI, more than just the odd head was crocked by service mechanics who didn't know what they were doing with PI. Nothing unusual about a head only a few months old having been replaced under warranty.

Unless it's one owner from new with full history, it's anybody's guess. Even then, garages don't always tell you if they've had to replace something under warranty, they just tell you it's sorted - less embarrassment that way. Once a car has been through two or three sets of hands, you can't rely on any damn thing, and I don't give a hoot how many bits of supporting paper there might be.