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Thu May 12, 2016 9:38 am

check out this engine number. It has a crank start pulley nut on the engine as well. Is it a bus engine? If so, what year?

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=1503742

Thu May 12, 2016 10:12 am

JoelH wrote: check out this engine number. It has a crank start pulley nut on the engine as well. Is it a bus engine? If so, what year?

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=1503742

There's that darn asterisk again...

Thu May 12, 2016 10:13 am

Right, what's up with that?

Thu May 12, 2016 11:46 am

JoelH wrote: check out this engine number. It has a crank start pulley nut on the engine as well. Is it a bus engine? If so, what year?

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=1503742

can you get a better shot of the stamps below the number?

looks like it says AUSTAUSCH perhaps?

Thu May 12, 2016 11:47 am

What would that indicate though?

Thu May 12, 2016 11:54 am

JoelH wrote: What would that indicate though?

an exchange engine would not necessarily have its original number.

look at the motor more closely, do you know what it came out of?

does it have an exhaust on it? bus or beetle?
what kind of distributor does it have? vacuum or centrifugal? (as in no vacuum canister. Beetles are always vacuum advance.

my feeling is you won't be able to tell from the number

Thu May 12, 2016 11:55 am

It has a crank start nut. Custom exhaust though. It's in a bug right now

Thu May 12, 2016 12:12 pm

crank start nut could be bus or bug

I doubt it matters either way since it appears to be an exchange engine

Thu May 12, 2016 12:16 pm

I think you're right.....Factory rebuild

Thu May 12, 2016 12:23 pm

Maybe it's a replacement case and they stamped the vin # from the bus?

I think a lot of cases have batch codes or dates on the area behind the flywheel.