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td42 engine numbers

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td42 engine numbers

Post by tye1986 »

hey fellas just trying to find out what motor i have in my patrol apparently td42 engine numbers that end in a leter are turbo model engines just curious what other people engine number ends in. mine eng number is td42149688b

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Post by monkeycritter »

Interesting post, I have a GU and will ge the numbers tomorrow. While I'm at it, I'll get numebrs off the two siver top motors that are getting machined as we speak.
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Post by pricey bandit »

Mine starts with tb42 but ends in a 1, its a factory turbo
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Post by tye1986 »

yeh weird i have a few mates with turbo and no turbo engines seems non turbo engines have no letter at the end accept 1 of them haha and most turbo engines have a t at the end i have know idea what the b is for though.
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Post by ludacris »

pricey bandit wrote:Mine starts with tb42 but ends in a 1, its a factory turbo
Is it TD or TB?

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Post by tye1986 »

td42 diesal 98 coil cab
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Post by Ryan »

TD42 is 4.2 diesel..
TD42T is factory 4.2 Turbo diesel
TB42 is petrol 4.2

Hope that helps :twisted:
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Post by turps »

pricey bandit wrote:Mine starts with tb42 but ends in a 1, its a factory turbo
No its not.
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Post by tye1986 »

so far i have seen 1 factory turbo with out a t on the end but cant find any one that knows what a b on the end means.
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Post by forkcy »

just got my new TD42T motor from nissan today and it ends in C
The TD42 in my patrol ends in 1

so i think you might be right about the leter thing
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Post by tye1986 »

yeh pretty weird wish i had a straight asnwer other wise i might be changing pistons. ahh well will drive it till it pops.
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Post by GQsh0rty »

Give a Nissan Dealer a call they should be able to make sense of it all
The 'B' at the end must stand for 'B'rillant engine :lol:
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Post by tye1986 »

haha yeh i rang nissan and this was there exact words engine numbers mean diderly squat to us hahah so yeh hopfully its a turbo spec motor.
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