Engine ID tags YBlocks

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Anyone have any info on theses tags. What does the numbers signify (code) See pic - the round item with the # 265 on it. I assume the coding has something to do with displacement and or HP, sedan or Tbird engine.
 

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It is (was) an ENGINE IDENTIFICATION TAG used during that period. They went to metal tags later.

Full description is described in a period TECH BULLETIN of the period which I seem to have misplaced.

The trouble with them was being cardboard, they didn't last long.
 

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Do you have any indication of the TB number ? Specifically for 56, Tbird.


KULTULZ said:
It is (was) an ENGINE IDENTIFICATION TAG used during that period. They went to metal tags later.

Full description is described in a period TECH BULLETIN of the period which I seem to have misplaced.

The trouble with them was being cardboard, they didn't last long.
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paul2748 said:
Do you have any indication of the TB number ? Specifically for 56, Tbird.
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I would have to search through the SERVICE LETTERS I have. It's in there.

I GUARANTEE oldmics has it if he were still here.

Can you wait few days?

ADDENDUM - (Boy Likes His Addendums; Colons Too)

Here is an ENGINE ID tag used in the sixties and early seventies. Notice ENGINE CODE NUMBER. That is what you are seeing on a fifties car engine tag abbreviated. The CODE will give FORD the exact build and calibration of the engine(s).

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I can wait


KULTULZ said:
I would have to search through the SERVICE LETTERS I have. It's in there.

I GUARANTEE oldmics has it if he were still here.

Can you wait few days?

ADDENDUM - (Boy Likes His Addendums; Colons Too)

Here is an ENGINE ID tag used in the sixties and early seventies. Notice ENGINE CODE NUMBER. That is what you are seeing on a fifties car engine tag abbreviated. The CODE will give FORD the exact build and calibration of the engine(s).

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According to the restoration manual from CTCI ,Gil Baumgartner, that tag indicates that the engine is a 1956 with an overdrive transmission.
 
Yes - I saw that - thanks. I also came across a 266 tag and the owner says it came from an automatic 56 Tbird.



Patrick brophy said:
According to the restoration manual from CTCI ,Gil Baumgartner, that tag indicates that the engine is a 1956 with an overdrive transmission.
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Patrick brophy said:
According to the restoration manual from CTCI ,Gil Baumgartner, that tag indicates that the engine is a 1956 with an overdrive transmission.
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... hmm ... (can't remember the words) ...

Maybe that is where I saw the SERVICE LETTER, on a BIRD MESSAGE BOARD.

Now I know that it is copyrighted material but does it show a FORD SERVICE LETTER SOURCE for the info?

I've looked through most 1957 SERVICE LETTERS and did not see it. It might have been in another year.

- 1957 FORD MODEL YEAR SERVICE LETTERS -​

SOURCE - https://57fordsforever.com/smf/index.php?board=19.20
 
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