VM engines

[bushwhacker]

Help

I have 2 VM engines can anyone please explain to me what to look for to tell which is the 2.4 and which is the 2.5?

One is attached to a four speed box in a Lightweight, would it have needed a conversion plate to do this? This engine is knackerd.

Will the other VM have the exact same bolt configuration to bolt onto the four speed box if one engine is a 2.4 and one is a 2.5?

Should the VM engines have separate intercoolers ala 200tdi?

The other is on the floor waiting on me getting my finger out.

Thanks

[bushwhacker]

Anybody

This is not a trick question I do want to know the difference.

Anybody got the answer

[JimAttrill]

I think the best way to tell the difference is by the engine number. Maybe somewhere on the internet will be a list.

[bushwhacker]

Thanks that sounds like a good place to start

Mark

[JimAttrill]

I do remember seeing an engine number prefix or suffix list in LRE or LRM, though the chances of finding it are very slim as I have years worth of mags.

[JimAttrill]

How about this?

2400 TD VM engines begin 11A, followed by a serial no.

2500TD VM engines begin 95A, followed by a serial no.

From the Rimmer Bros web site

[taurion]

To save digging for engine numbers:

2.4 VM has the vacuum pump on top of the timing gear just above the fuel pump. got one in a RR.

2.5 VM has vac pump buried in the block behind the timing gears, i.e. engine looks different externally.