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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: veedubcanuck on January 06, 2009, 10:59:54 am

Title: Need help with engine ID
Post by: veedubcanuck on January 06, 2009, 10:59:54 am

How can I tell what engine I have when the ID area of the block is pitted too bad to read? The engine is not in a car so I don't know what it was I . It is a 1.6TD from somewhere around 83?? What can I look at to tell?
Thanks

Title: Need help with engine ID
Post by: veedubcanuck on January 06, 2009, 11:09:47 am

From the number on the pump it looks like it was from an 83-84 rabbit. I think the guy it was from also said it was a rabbit now that I think of it.

Title: Need help with engine ID
Post by: Smokey Eddy on January 06, 2009, 01:05:01 pm

well im pretty sure the model of the car doesn't make a huge difference...

You want to know if its like MF or something?


I would clean the area with lacquer thinner where it's supposed to be printed and then put paper over it and with a black sharpie (the wedge kind) just lightly shade over it and you might be able to make it out that way?

Title: Need help with engine ID
Post by: veedubcanuck on January 06, 2009, 01:11:01 pm

Yes, that is what I am after. There is no way to read what was there, I wire brushed, scraped, and then used my small sandblaster to get the rust away and there is no hope of getting anything from there....

Title: Need help with engine ID
Post by: Smokey Eddy on January 06, 2009, 01:13:12 pm

Sh!tty....   Hmmmmmm.

well you could start listing the parts on it? Hahaha
like the number off the injection pump, what turbo you have, and so on. Maybe post a pic too? There are a few guys on here who know VWs like the back of their hand.

Title: Need help with engine ID
Post by: TurboJ on January 06, 2009, 01:41:17 pm

(http://www.vemu.fi/kuva100vemz2.jpg)

One of those and an angle grinder worked for me