How to check engine number code Toyota. Engine Serial Number Location Service Category Engine/Hybrid System. Engine model model model year serial number gs 350 gs 450h 2007. The serial number can be important when ordering parts. Certain changes may have been made during production of the engine; different parts will be required if the engine was assembled before or after the change date. Generally, parts stores and dealers list this data in their catalogs, so have the engine number handy when you go. Refer to the illustrations to determine the engine number location.
Poser/Steve is doing it in the '40 and 55 series tech forum' as a 'sticky' for cruisers with F and 2F petrol engines. So I'm thinking.why haven't we done the same for our cruisers fitted with B, 2B, 3B, H, 2H, 13BT etc diesels.
Once sufficient people contribute in each vehicle/engine category (which I admit may take significantly longer than for Steve's thread - due to the lower numbers worldwide).graphs like this one (put together by Martian) can eventually be made: This graph enables someone who buys a second-hand 2F engine to work out its production date easily and with reasonable accuracy - from just the serial number. And it's not easy for the owner of a diesel cruiser to even pinpoint the production date/month of the vehicle itself! So hopefully this thread can eventually help there too (from the input of owners who already know all this data about their vehicles). And we can also include details in this thread of where to locate identification details. For instance on the B- diesel (1B) fitted to a BJ40, the engine serial number is found here: Edit Feb2013 - Swapped this pic because the one I had there before was of the number on my spare engine which was inconsistant with my details shown below. It took me a long while to discover this hidden location and it was very hard to photograph. You actually need to look down between the 2 rearmost ports of the inlet manifold (by the dipstick).
Anyway I'll kick this thread off with details of my vehicle: Landcruiser model: BJ40RV-KCQ Build date (as accurate as I'm able to determine): July 1979 Engine Serial No: 0294407 Block Casting: 0 Frame No. (also called 'VIN No.' ): BJ40 - 0038478 PS. I have a personal motive for doing this in that I want to determine the build date for that spare engine I bought.ie. The one whose serial number I photographed above. Is anyone able to show me how to determine the build date directly from any casting data on a 1B block?
Click to expand.The VIN contains the chassis mumber and I think this could be useful to some people. For instance, it will enable someone to estimate the production date of a chassis simply from the letters and numbers that are stamped on it. So.I think it's best to just do what you're doing. Provide whatever you can right away.and then edit your post to add whatever else comes to hand later. And I'd really like to see the moderators put this as a sticky at the top of this Diesel Forum so that it remains in view. (Firstly, it's got to be at least as useful as the other stuff there, and secondly, I expect it to take quite a while for the desired quantity of data to accumulate - mainly because of the low numbers of diesel cruisers in the USA.) PS.
You only need to look at this thread (started today) to see how popular the diesels are worldwide: Oh and here's a pic of where to find the casting mumber on a B, 2B or 3B: (LH side of the motor just to the rear of the injector pump.). As a side-track. Don't those 4 'thingies' that I've put a red dot on suggest that this late-model B engine is equipped with oil-squirters? If so, it blows away the criticism so many people place on B engines. I often hear people say that B-engines in general are weaker than 3B engines and a typical reason they give is 'lack of piston skirt oil cooling'.
I think what those people should really be saying is simply that newer B-series engines (whether B, 2B or 3B) have certain features that make them more robust. And then even this statement should be clarified further by saying 'the extra strength is usually only needed if you intend pushing the engine further.
Such as by fitting a turbo'. And then, to add balance, you should say that not all changes on the newer engines are positive.
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For instance the newer engines are likely to have economised by switching to distributor/rotary-type injector pumps and likely to have done away with dry-liners. Perhaps I'm just getting defensive because I run an older B.