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Old 11-29-2015, 04:21 PM   #4
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Re: Original motor?

^^^ Sadly, no. There is no VIN suffix on the trucks.

The three letter code will tell you what year and transmissions of truck (or non-truck) it came with. That, combined with a reasonable looking date code, is as close as you can get.

The trucks do not have a serial or sequence number stamped on them. So for mine, I can decode to "1970 Truck 402 w/ TH400" and see that the engine is dated a couple of months prior to the truck build, so it's probably original. But you can never prove it conclusively.
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