I've got a Canadian VW Factory rebuilt Air Cooled series CV and it has a
yellow sticker over the engine number.

Stan Wilder

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:02:16 -0700 mike <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> writes:
> 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?
> >
> >
> >> 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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