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gtogreen1969
PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 7:57 pm 
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Foxy1971 wrote:
On mine there is a dent in the outer gutter seam on the passenger side just above the door pillar.
BXQ122 shows both the centrally located aerial and a ,I suppose an AM Radio aerial on the D/S. I reckon they may have mounted an AM radio aerial on the passenger side just to have background music
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Here is the other photo that shows the side antenna.

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Foxy1971 wrote:
On mine there is a dent in the outer gutter seam on the passenger side just above the door pillar.
BXQ122 shows both the centrally located aerial and a ,I suppose an AM Radio aerial on the D/S. I reckon they may have mounted an AM radio aerial on the passenger side just to have background music
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I don't think police Ss were fitted with AM radio antennas.
When we were in Bega with our S, the officer we spoke to said the patrolmen were not permitted to have a radio in their vehicle - even though it was needed to keep in communication with base station.
Maybe for BXQ it was a driver's addition considering it was a clip-on item.
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Thanks again for all your words of wisdom. Now the search for a sun visor.
Oh just picked up some bits from Woodys Hydroblasting. All I can say is wow. I will put up some pick shortly. Thx Winbbey for the referral an amazing job and an eye for detail

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Straight from the hydro blaster
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Straight from the hydro blaster
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Very pretty.

Out of interest does your gearbox have a stamped serial number on the front? They either had FAXe xxxx or they were left blank.
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Out of interest does your gearbox have a stamped serial number on the front? They either had FAXe xxxx or they were left blank.


Macka,
What's the story with the stamping, I have 2 X 22G1128 boxes, one stamped FAXe 2441 and one which is blank.
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[quote="gtogreen1969"Out of interest does your gearbox have a stamped serial number on the front? They either had FAXe xxxx or they were left blank.


Macka,
What's the story with the stamping, I have 2 X 22G1128 boxes, one stamped FAXe 2441 and one which is blank.
Thanks,[/quote]FAXe is the code for the Mk2 Cooper S box fitted to the 9FXEY engines. However only half of the power plants i have seen carry the stamped gearbox serial number. The others are blank.

I am trying to collect info on the correlation between engine numbers with and without a gearbox serial number to better understand why some are blank.

Was it due to replacement gearboxes or did they just stop stamping them at a certain date?

Can you remember the engine number fitted to gearbox FAXe2441 and the engine number with no gearbox serial number?
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Thanks for the info.
FAXe2441 is fitted to engine 9F/Xe/Y53725, possibly original box, Oct 69 build.
Blank is fitted to 9F/Xe/Y54732, no idea, Sept 70 build.

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cgo wrote:
Thanks for the info.
FAXe2441 is fitted to engine 9F/Xe/Y53725, possibly original box, Oct 69 build.
Blank is fitted to 9F/Xe/Y54732, no idea, Sept 70 build.

Thats great. Thankyou. I have only just started to collect this info so i am a long way off working out a pattern yet.
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Just had a look at car with original engine no. 9F/Xe/Y53726, doesn't have this engine now. Gearbox is stamped FAXe2444. Original engine no. is one more than mine, box 3 more, chassis number is 10 less, both cars Oct 69 build.

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I will let you know re the serial numbers tomorrow evening
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