Posted by Clint Dixon [172.69.90.77] on Monday, January 31, 2022 at 10:02:56 :
In Reply to: Re: Don't forget posted by Keith in Washington [108.162.245.199] on Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 20:23:09 :
Sorry about that. I focused on the stated model number and overlooked the registered year. It would stand to reason that mainly those trucks assembled later in the year would be the ones more likely to be registered the following year. You are probably on the right track.
I wish we had documentation showing a correlation between serial numbers and engine numbers. Did they build each T137 engine per truck as the orders came in? Or did they build the engines in small batches ahead of time and keep these on a rack, inventoried, in ready supply for the next few orders of trucks to come in? If they had some assembled and ready in advance, did they stage them in numerical order? And, did they replenish the supply of staged engines from the front and pick from the back, or load and pick from the same end leaving some early numbers out of order? Or, did they wait and assign and stamp the engine number right before or during installed in the truck?
From what I have seen, the engine number sequence roughly follows the truck serial number sequence, with some deviations every so often. The engine number is definitely helpful in dating a truck, but it would be nice to have a definite record to help do so as well as to determine if an engine has been replaced over the years.
Fortunately, or unfortunately (whichever way you look at it), we really do not have in-depth numbers matching capability on Power-Wagons.
Junior
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