help to find engine serial #

MAYNARD10 · Nov 18, 2015

I have checked everywhere. The serial plate number is gone. Where would I find the motor serial number. It is a 1952 or 3 Tea20 with a cintinental gas motor.

Thanks for any help

I pulled the motor apart to find that it had already been apart. Just trying to get back to original spec numbers.

John Deere D · Nov 19, 2015

If you have a TEA-20 1952/3 then you may have a high bread/morphodite, as I believed all TEA-20's came from Coventry England Plant with a Standard engine in the 1950's NOT a Continental engine. Do you know for sure that you have a TEA-20? or is it a TO-20?

John Deere D · Nov 19, 2015

ITEM # 22: TO 20 & TO 30.....Likely to be of USA Manufactured: Continental Engine:
ITEM # 23: TE20-TEA-20.......Likely to be of COVENTRY ENGLAND Manufactured: Standard Engine if built 1950>
Parts can be swapped and a Hybrid produced.
WHICH ITEM is your TRACTOR equipment with. Item 22 or Item 23?

Engine Block ITEM # 1 Continental
Engine Block ITEM # 23 REAR crank SEAL English Standard
Engine HEAD ITEM # 40 Continental
Engine HEAD ITEM # 27 English Standard

Charles in Aus. · Nov 20, 2015

A 1952 /3 TEA20 would not have left the factory with a Continental engine . The Standard engine number is stamped onto a flat machined surface adjacent to the coil ; often obscured by many coats of paint . The date of manufacture can often be estimated to within a month from casting marks on the rear end . Look near the transmission dipstick , next to this will be a series of numbers in a vertical arrangement . The numbers , from the bottom read dd,mm,year of the 1950's . So an example 11.3.2 would read as the 11th day of March 1952.

MAYNARD10 · Nov 20, 2015

(quoted from post at 23:25:48 11/19/15)
A 1952 /3 TEA20 would not have left the factory with a Continental engine . The Standard engine number is stamped onto a flat machined surface adjacent to the coil ; often obscured by many coats of paint . The date of manufacture can often be estimated to within a month from casting marks on the rear end . Look near the transmission dipstick , next to this will be a series of numbers in a vertical arrangement . The numbers , from the bottom read dd,mm,year of the 1950's . So an example 11.3.2 would read as the 11th day of March 1952.

Thanks guys for the help. I have now got the right valve spring and a new oil pump and now the work begins.
Again thks MJ

John Deere D · Nov 20, 2015

So which engine do you have,Continental or standard in your 1952/3 TEA20?

Jerry/MT · Nov 22, 2015

If you really have a TEA-20 then it should have the Standard engine. If it"s a TE-20 it would have the Continental Z 120 with Lucas electrics. What"s the tractor serial number. It should be TEA-abcde if it"s a TEA.

Bob (Aust) · Nov 24, 2015

This is my 1953 TEA20 (with 85 mm Standard engine).

How can you miss the engine serial number? It is located on the block between the coil and oil filler.

Unlike Continental, there is no engine number tag. With Standard engines (whether fitted to Ferguson, Vanguard, Triumph or Morgan cars), the engine number is always stamped into the block.

If you look behind the generator you will also find the engine casting date.

Bob in Oz

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