Engine ID Tags

[House]

Interested in seeing some of your original 66-72 Bronco Engine ID Tags.
These are the silver aluminum tags found on the coil retainer bolt.
They tell the year model, year and month built, engine code, and revision.

 

[okie4570]

From my 9/65 u14

 

[House]

Cool one Okie!
Anybody have more to share?

 

[904Bronco]

1968 U15 289... was the original motor...

 

[jckkys]

I'm not sure haw much significance this has with EBs. In the muscle car world this was a big deal. I'm not sure if that's true any more. Maybe Vette fans are still anal but not many others.

 

[ared77]

It's not just the "Vette fans" trust me. I had a '69 Boss 302 for 38 years and wanted every thing to be just as it came from Ford! Then Bronco fever hit me and I sold it and a 64 1/2 Mustang convertible that I'd owned over 20 years.%);D

 

[Blue Bastard]

My 66’ U13 .

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[jamesroney]

1968 U15 289... was the original motor...

Hi Doug, are you sure about this tag?

It reads as:
289 C 66 10 FoMoCo
6-E E 236-S

This tag decodes as a 1966 289 from the Cleveland foundry assembled to rev level 10. It was assembled in May of 66, and was calibrated for a 2bbl carb, and an Automatic transmission.

It would be found in a 66 Intermediate or Full Size passenger car. (there were no auto's in Broncos, and no 289's in trucks or vans...)

 

[jckkys]

The Boss 429s and 302s may have some value enhancement with the engine tag. My 428 CJ Ram Air in a Cougar Eliminator didn't gain much if any. It had the tag, the vin stamped in the block and in the C6 bell housing too.