Oil leak and subsequent mystery

[pfmet]

I’m ordering parts to resolve a major oil leak which developed suddenly a week ago. Seems I may have pushed the front exhaust cam seal right out of the head. Haven’t pulled the TB cover to trace yet. But I’m preparing to do TB (47k miles/11 yrs old, so way due) and oil pump gaskets (kit form) as well as front cam seals. The rub is trying to determine which OP gasket kit is required for my particular 99 V70 NA. Two are listed in VIDA and at FCP, no.271439 for engines ser. no. -1188999 and no.274260 for ser. no. 1186000-. So I went to the spot on the water pump housing I believe it is and after cleaning as best I could with my big arthritic hands I managed this photo.

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Above the arrow I believe I see a {1} or at least three dots that look like the base of a 1 and some dots trending upwards from there. Hopefully my power of suggestion was good enough for y’all to see what I’m seeing. This would give me the seven digit no. 1515491. All opinions considered. However, this is well beyond the range that our engine should fall in, apparently, I can’t find a way do date engine serial numbers but there was a post somewhere where someone managed posting what looked like the VIDA information screen for a specific VIN which showed the engine serial number. My VIDA information page has no engine identifier data.

I guess I’ll order the #274260 kit and see what we get. But I really NEED to know what the deal is with my serial no. Any thoughts at all other than this thing got a transplant at some point in its past. She’s got a yellow label ETM dated 2004 but I figured that was a warranty swap of the module.

Thanks for bearing with me and as always thanks for your responses and best with all your projects.

Peter

[abscate]

I have a couple of early 1999s in my Maintenance thread (see link at bottom of my sig for path to that Forum) with build dates and engine numbers listed for guidance.

I suspect the gasket kit change follows the change from hydraulic to solid lifters which happened at 1817653 engine number in late 1998. Your engine number is way past that

[pfmet]

Well I guess my engine was built somewhere between Evita’s and Karla Kat’s. If cars built in 99 were using motors built before that cutoff line it would imply a big number of cars were built that year. I believe I’m misinterpreting the data somehow so I’ll remain focused on the job at hand and forget about serial numbers. At least I’m confident in the parts I’m ordering. Can’t find an answer to how many 99’s were built. Seems like they went through a lot of motors though.

[abscate]

They made about 100k P80s a year with about 40k coming to our shores