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Old Mar 22, 2022 | 06:47 PM
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Missing numbers on vin

Im working on this engine and the vin is missing the second and third number. For example it is F___E-6015-AA-12. Why is this and what does this mean. Its not sanded off or whatever.
 
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Where are you seeing this? Just above the oil pan rail of the block above starter? If not that's where it is.

If engine is original, the engine is called out in the vin of the data plate on door pillar.

What yah' workin on?
 
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Old Mar 22, 2022 | 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Sam l
Im working on this engine and the vin is missing the second and third number. For example it is F___E-6015-AA-12. Why is this and what does this mean. Its not sanded off or whatever.
That is not a VIN. It looks like a casting number. Is it cast into the part--i.e. raised metal letters/numbers? Or is it stamped on to a flat machined surface?

There should be a certification lable on the door with the VIN. There may be a VIN in the lower part of the driver side windshield. And the VIN is stamped on the frame on the passenger side near where the alternator fits on the engine.

 
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Old Mar 23, 2022 | 07:16 AM
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6015 is the common descriptor/identifier/part name for "engine block", the F is 1990 decade & the AA is the first or one of the first castings.


 
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