Steps
- Locate the tag for all 6 cylinder and most standard V-8 Ford motors under the coil attaching bolts.
- Locate the tag for 8 cylinder 352 Ford motors under the dipstick-tube.
- Locate the tag for 8 cylinder 330, 361 and 391 Ford motors under the heat indicator bulb.
- Locate the tag for 8 cylinder 401, 477 and 534 Ford motors under the carburetor attaching stud.
- Read the 1st digit in the identification tag. This will be a letter. If the letter is a "B," it means that the engine was built in the 1950s. Each decade after that has its own succeeding letter; "C" designates the 1960s, "D" designates the 1970s and so on.
- Read the 2nd digit in the Ford motor tag. It will be any numeral from "0" to "9," and it designates the year in the decade it was built.
- Read the 3rd digit in the Ford engine number. This will be a letter, and it signifies the basic design of the vehicle as shown below.
- �A" - Generic full size engine
- �D" - Falcon
- �E" - Truck
- �F" - Foreign Trans-Am racing
- �G" - 1961 to 1967 Comet/1968 to 1976 Montego
- �H" - 1966 to 1982 Heavy truck
- �J" - Industrial Ford
- �L" - Lincoln
- �M" - Mercury
- �O" - 1967 to 1976 Ford Torino/all Ford Fairlane
- �S" - Thunderbird
- �T" - Truck
- �W" - Cougar
- �Y" - Meteor
- �Z" - Mustang
- �6" - Pantera
- Read the 4th digit in the Ford engine number. It will always be an "E" to designate that it was designed by the Ford engine team.
- Read the next 4 digits, which are the last digits in the motor number. These 4 numbers will always be between 6000 and 6898, which describes the part numbering of the generic engine assembly.
