Sexton engine rebuild tag

[David Dunlop]

Hello Jesse.

Does the Serial Number of the engine match any vehicle records for your Sexton? If it's the original factory installed engine, there is a good chance the actual vehicle may have been at Borden when the engine was overhauled. If the numbers do not match, the odds increase that whenever the original engine in the Sexton needed servicing, it was simply shipped off to the nearest RCEME unit capable of doing the work and a "new" rebuilt engine was ordered out of stores through the system for installation.

[Jesse Browning]

David; I don't have any vehicle records. There are many stamped numbers on various parts of the engine, but none match the vehicle serial number. Jesse.

[David Dunlop]

Hello again Jesse.

I'm not that familiar with the Sexton, other than riding in Bill Gregg's many years back and enjoying the scent of avgas in the air, but if the original data plate(s) survived on your vehicle, it might have identified the original engine number for you. There is also the possibility that if the vehicle itself went in for a major model upgrade, a new data plate would have been added, showing that info as well. One can see this quite often on half tracks that left the factory as an M16 for example but were subsequently converted to an M3 vehicle.

I checked an old copy of Peter Ford's CMP INFOEX but none of the five Sextons he had been able to locate had Engine Data available and only one owner could provide a vehicle SN. Was hoping there might have been enough information available to help you plug yours into the production scheme of things.

[Van Hove Herman]

Is the indication on this plate on the rear side of a Ford V-8
engine also a workshop number ?
On the front side is an other plate with REF: ENG
May be brittisch and not canadian ?

[Perry Kitson]

I checked the rebuild tag on my Sexton engine, it's 205 Workshop as well. Dated 3-3-52. One odd note is the engine number on the tag, 456, does not match the engine's number, 507415. I wonder if the engine number on the tag was just a sequentail number assigned to the engines as they passed through the workshop. My engine shows very little wear as well, just the damage from condensation in a few cylinders. The motor had a stuck exhaust vavle on #7 cylinder that resulted in a broken push rod, and a heavily corroded supercharger impeller.

Perry

[Jesse Browning]

My engine was rebuilt 6-2-52 and had a number of 414. The original number is 507412. It looks like ours were on the assembly line pretty close together. My vehicle shop number is 1900. 1941 is in the Crown Point museum nearby, and 1539 is in a museum in southern Indiana. Jesse.