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Buba
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 Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:36 am Post subject: Barndoor engine number question |
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Hi, Can you confirm me if ALL barndoor's engine number comes with the dash (-) between the 20 and the rest of the number?
Can a 1952 engine comes without the dash?
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RockStock
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Anchovy
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It looks like there is a dash before the "20", after the "20" and at the end of the number on all examples.
Notice the "2982" below the number on my '54. I think this was stamped in by the guys that rebuilt it in February of 1982. Anybody seen this before? |
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Buba
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for your information, then always there are a dash before and after the 20.
Greetings from Argentina
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RockStock
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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jeff
cos of your website pic, i had a closer look at my block the other day
it does have another four digit number
it is lower down than yours
& i think it reads top to btm, not left to right
it wasnt a 29 number
i think it started 24**, something like 2457
& what's the '17' for??
mark's 51 has a small 4-digit number too - 2527?
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=289790
and a 27....
(actually, my number may have been 2527...)
your numbers look too neat!
one conscientious factory worker?
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hazetguy
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the "-20-" prefix was used up until the end of 1955 calendar year. post barndoor wolfsburg busses up to the end of 12/55 also have 20- numbered cases. the first pic in this thread is a pic i took of an 11/55 engine i have.
i saw a service bulletin that says the 1- (type 1) and 20- prefixes were to be dropped after 12/31/55.
i see those "small" numbers on alot of different parts, not just cases. maybe they are casting lot numbers? i have always wondered what they meant, and have never found a definitive answer. |
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janerick3
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I think the small 4-digit numbers are inspector stamps.
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RockStock
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:22 am Post subject: |
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i had a closer look at my block the other day
it does have another four digit number
it is lower down than yours
& i think it reads top to btm, not left to right
it wasnt a 29 number
i think it started 24**, something like 2457 |
it's 2571, written on its side
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Anchovy
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| The little 4 digit number is interesting and must be a factory thing rather than a rebuild stamp like I had thought it might be. |
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musclebus
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Hi  , my 54' BD engine has four larger digits stamped under the engine number........ 0 666 
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