sticker on my old 1.8 block

[ranahan@charter.net (John Erickson)]

Mine has a sticker in the same location that reads:

"VW CANADA REMAN"

and a bunch of numbers.  The PO (original owner) drove it 
until the timing belt broke and then got a remanufactured 
engine.  Unfortunately (for me), the dealership that 
swapped out the engine put the old oil pan on the new 
engine without cleaning it out.  When I pulled the pan, my 
oil pickup tube was about 60-70% blocked by some sort of 
silicone gasket material.  There were big globs of it in 
the oil pan embedded with various bits of shrapnel 
including a whole valve keeper and the little spring from 
my front main oil seal (the reason I was in there).  


John
87 16v
Long Beach


treed2@u.washington.edu
|Hey all,
|
|I just remembered this - when I pulled out what I assumed 
|to have been my
|original 135,000 mile 1.8 16v to put in the 2.0, I wiped 
|away the
|layer of grease and muck caked all over the front of the 
|block.. Next
|to the crankcase breather unit that bolts on there, I 
|found a yellow
|sticker that read:
|
|EXCHANGE
|PIECE REMISE A NEUF
|Part No.	027 100 003 HX
|No de piece
|
|May be used for engine code:
|Peut etre employee pour les moteurs code PL
|
|
|Does this mean I had an exchanged (remanufactured?) 
|engine? (or
|perhaps just the block)
|I have no mention of this in any of the car's records 
|(granted, they're
|not very good.. the "dealer service records" in the 
|owner's packet is
|all I have and they only go to 60,000 miles or so)
|
|Or does a sticker like this come on every 1.8 16v block?
|
|Thoughts?
|
|-Toby