#DECODING ENGINE SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS#
#DECODING ENGINE SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER#
#DECODING ENGINE SERIAL NUMBERS DRIVERS#
#DECODING ENGINE SERIAL NUMBERS REGISTRATION#
#DECODING ENGINE SERIAL NUMBERS LICENSE#

Ford Canada used serial number series of their own creation and control. Model A engines with serial number prefix CA, CAA, CAW, CAAW, CAE, CAAE, CAR, CAAR, CAT, CAAT, CAY, CAAY, CAU, CAAU, CAI, CAAI, CAO, CAAO, CAP, CAAP, CAS, CAAS, CAD, and CAAD, and Model B engines with serial number prefix CBG and CBQ were built and stamped at Ford of Canada in East Windsor (Ford City), Ontario.

#DECODING ENGINE SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS#

Some Model B engines having an AA prefix and Rouge group serial numbers were also built and stamped at Dagenham in 19 and were used in Model AA trucks having factory Model B engines. These engines variously carried serial number prefixes A, AF, AA, B, BF, and BB, however with distinctly identifiable numeric serial numbers based on place of manufacture.Д«oth Dagenham and KГ¶ln used serial numbers assigned from groups of numbers granted by the Rouge from within the larger sequence of Rouge numbers. Model A and B engines were also produced by Ford at Dagenham, England, at Cork, Ireland, and at KГ¶ln, Germany. Model A and B engines were also built worldwide, including at Windsor, Canada, at Manchester and later Dagenham, England, at KГ¶ln, Germany, and at Gorky Automobile Zavod 'Р“РђР—' (GAZ), USSR from the 1930's through 1950's. Some engines produced at the Rouge for export also carried the marking 'Ford U.S.A.' stamped on the pad below the serial number, as illustrated in the pic above.

Most Model A Ford engines found in North and South America with serial number prefixes A, AA, AF, or AAF, and Model B Ford engines with serial number prefixes AB, AAB, B, or BB were built at the Ford Rouge manufacturing complex in Dearborn, Michigan. The prefix is preceded by a в† character, and the numeric serial number is followed by a в† character, as shown in the pic above. The numeric serial number is unique and is not directly correlated to the prefix letter(s). The engine serial number is separate from the alpha prefix letter(s). This is true throughout the Ford Model A and B US and Canadian production era.

#DECODING ENGINE SERIAL NUMBERS REGISTRATION#

The engine number, not a frame number, was the original serial number of the vehicle for title and registration purposes. Any number present is frequently obscured or illegible due to corrosion and pitting from moisture held by the cotton frame webbing between the frame and body. In the 1930's, vehicle theft was actually quite a large problem.ДЄ check for a possible frame number requires removal of the body and fender splash aprons from the frame. The engine number was assigned and stamped at the Rouge and was usually, but not always, later stamped on the top of the frame flange at the vehicle assembly plant as a backup to aid in positive identification of stolen vehicles. When present, the frame number was a duplicate of the original engine number of that chassis. There is no Ford literature available indicating a frame number was ever intended for any primary identification of a vehicle by Ford. A great many did not have a frame number stamped, and it varied depending on when and which of the more than two dozen assembly plants completed the vehicle final assembly. Actually, not all Model A vehicles even had a frame number.

It is popularly but incorrectly claimed that the serial number of the vehicle was a frame number.

#DECODING ENGINE SERIAL NUMBERS LICENSE#

The Specifications and License Data page above in the Instruction Book is quite clear and specific about this. It's an EJ25 engine, serial #P085832.ДЄny help or info would be much appreciated, Thanks.Model A Vehicle Serial Number and LocationДЄs shown above in the 1928 Model A Ford Instruction Book, Ford did in fact specify the engine number to be the 'serial number' of the vehicle, during the Model A (and B) era, and throughout the 1930's. I'm not the first to ask but there were no answers in any of the other threads that I could find. I was trying to find out what year the engine was built so that I could get the proper parts for it but no one seems to know what these numbers mean. The timing belt and tensioners were redone when the engine was installed about 40K miles ago. It's a smooth running engine and has about 75K miles on it total now. I recently bought a 2002 OBW with a replaced Japanese 'low mileage' used engine, (about 35K miles). The numbers must mean something as Head Gasket manufacturers have specific gaskets for certain number ranges, yet no one seems to know what else these numbers mean, or if a manufacturing date can be found from them.

#DECODING ENGINE SERIAL NUMBERS DRIVERS#

The six digit number on the engine, close to the transmission on the drivers side is the number. I've looked everywhere on line, called the local Subaru dealer, checked the forum here, but no answer to this question.

Decoding engine serial numbers