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hello, Here's a puzzler for you all. My engine, nicknamed crusty for all the rust and deteriorating stuff on it, has finally been taken down to the short block a brief while back. The odd thing is that the numbers on certain stuff doesn't match. As far as I know this is the original engine in it since it looks as if the case has never been pulled open and all of the tin ware was rusted together. Get a gander at this... The case is an as-41 dual port, dual relief case, which I know was the standard for my car which is a 1973 squareback. The number on the case halves read 211.101.101 e on one side, and 211.101.102 e on the other. Yet on the top of the case in blue reads the number 311.010.AC . Now can someone explain to me why this case, which technically reads as a type II on the actual case halves has another number which is to say that it is a type III case; but that is not the real weird part. Now on the head the number reads 311.101.370 G and on the underside of that, if you will, reads the number 74 on it. My assumption here is that these heads are from 1974 unless their is someother type of number designation that applies to them. The head scratcher becomes this. How is that my car which was built in april of 1973 get, technically a bus block, and then heads that were done a year after the car was made? Again I stress to all of you that this engine looks to be original since if looks as if nothing has been touched in 30 years. I do know for certain that the car was in a mild fender bender but nothing that would suggest a replacement of the engine. I do realize that the block is most likely rebuildable but I will only really know once I crack open the case halves and inspect everything. But you have to admit it looks quite strange to have something like this happen. Has anyone on the list had this while restoring their ride? dennis mach01913@yahoo.com 1973 squareback (work in progress) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org