Topic: Engine code stamping
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Anyone ever seen a block with letters reversed? My 73 454 should read CWM but mine reads CMW vin is correct and block pad has never been tampered with I can’t be the only one with this issue
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Not unheard of for assy line worker to load one or more of the stamp characters upside down. Assuming this was done on the line, it's possible it was caught immediately and corrected, or there may have been several more stamped like that before it was noticed. Typically, however, mistakes would have been ground out and re-stamped.
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