Taft. If you can get under your car. take off the oil filter. The engine number is stamped right above that.

1957 Fairlane

Well, I'm not pulling a head for the engine number, not now I've got her running so sweetly!!

Got the VIN, that was on the door piller plate, guess i'm going over the engine with a torch tomorrow to find a nine digit number I can use!

Charlie, thanks for that, though even a "general" number wou probably suffice in this situation, given the low number of 292-powered Galaxies on the UK roads!

Cheers, Taff

1959 Ford Galaxie 2dr sedan, 292 (just woken up after a 38 year sleep!)

It is not unique and is a "general" number. It sounds like Stuey knows what you need.


Lawrenceville, GA

morning Taff

glad to see you are making progress. stick at it so many people give up.

you will need both VIN number and engine number for the DVLA. the VIN numb is usually on a plate on a door pillar. the engine number is usually stamped into the deck and may be under a cylinder head. if the block has been skimmed it may be missing. naughty but you could invent one mine is 9 digits long.i also found the VIN number on slips of paper in a wallet clipped to the sun visor.

keep up the good fight

stuey

UK

Charlie, is that number unique to my engine? Or is it a "general" number for that (capacity of) engine for 1959?

Cheers, Taff

1959 Ford Galaxie 2dr sedan, 292 (just woken up after a 38 year sleep!)

Careful with the cheater bar on the spark plugs!

But taking the spark plugs out would be the first thing on my list, followed by ATF or some other kind of cleaning oil.

I had an engine that seemed totally frozen, and I worked on it a little at a time, getting it to turn finally without the plugs in. Just messing around, I put in a couple of spark plugs on cylinders 1 and 6, and it fired and ran for a few seconds off the WD40 I had sprayed in the cylinders! Scared the daylights out of me, but made me very happy.

The engineering number will be cast on the block. It will be above the oil filter or by the distributor, or on the front, distributor side of the block (your driver's side).

However, for registration, I imagine they're looking for a VIN and unless things were different in the UK, that will not exist.


Lawrenceville, GA

latest question guys.

I'm getting reday to register the Glaxie here in the UK and I need the engine number.

Whereabouts n a 1959 vitage 292 motor is the number likely to be? is it cast on, stamped into a small machined area or what/

Thanks in advance

Taff

Cheers, Taff

1959 Ford Galaxie 2dr sedan, 292 (just woken up after a 38 year sleep!)

Probably know this but it is always worth mentioning for safety--Just make sure to purge really well before welding and pressure test if repairing the tank. I learned the hard way on a motorcycle tank I thought was empty enough to weld it does not take a whole lot of vapor to flash on you. My eyebrows took a while to come back.

Mike Rizzo

1963 F100 "Rudy"

Daniel Island, SC

true, but getting stuff shipped to the UK is currently very expensive.

for example, new rockers are availabe for $20. shipping is another $175.

Cheers, Taff

1959 Ford Galaxie 2dr sedan, 292 (just woken up after a 38 year sleep!)