I just got one and I'll check but I don't remember any steel tag.

Mike

> From: Brent Christensen <sbsyncro@HOTMAIL.COM>
> Reply-To: Brent Christensen <sbsyncro@HOTMAIL.COM>
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:22:43 -0700
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: [Syncro] how can i tell if it's a rebuild?
>
> I don't know if this applies in other countries, but here in the US, I have
> never seen a comercially-done rebuild without a steel tag affixed to the
> block (or stamped into it) that tells the rebuilder, the date, and the
> machining  of the main bearings, cylinders, etc.  (this includes my VW
> Canada WBX motor).
>
> Not sure if this would apply to a SA motor...  Check the back of the block -
> these stamps/tags are usually somewhere near the absolute back of the block
> (near the flywheel).
>
> Brent
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Pollard" <poll7356@uidaho.edu>
> To: <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>; <syncro@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 12:29 PM
> Subject: [Syncro] how can i tell if it's a rebuild?
>
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>> i have reason to believe that my tiico is actually a rebuild. Is there a
>> way to tell if it's a rebuild? is there a date-stamp cast into it? do
>> rebuilders leave some sort of mark to say it's been rebuilt?
>>
>> thanks
>> matthew
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