Your engine will not be numbers matching if it has a rebuild tag from 82. Going by memory but I think it was Bennet and Hanson or else Western rebuilders doing the engine rebuilds for the DND back then. When a Jeep needed a new engine, you ordered it, a big wooden crate showed up with an engine complete with water pump, belts, alternator, clutch, carb etc. You installed the new engine, and put the old one in the crate and off it went.
There is a flat boss on the engine block just back of the water pump. There may (or may not) be numbers on there. We had NOS bare blocks available, and when the rebuilder or 202 workshop used these, no numbers would be on the boss. As well, early 1952 engines were mixed into the fray due to the overlap of the jeep fleets in service, so you can also end up with very early numbers.
Your 68 vintage jeep will have a few differences from the typical M38A1s that are in the US. These include such improvements as the rubber shell connectors, 60 amp alternator, battery voltage gauge, no hinges on front grill, no fender support to the frame, center support for the grill, factory turn signals (almost always upgraded to the solid state signal kit), late style aircleaner, closed type shackles.....the list goes on. Your Jeep would have been assembled in Windsor Ontario, as opposed to Toledo Ohio, where the US Jeeps were assembled.
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