Someone sent me a Suzuki engine

Check the auctions of the ebay sellers that you've bought from lately. I had a seller send me a box of electronics by mistake. I had bought some ICs from him a few days earlier.

The plot thickens.

I found the label on the package, with my address handwritten and no return address. I called Fedex. The woman on the phone found the tracking number and said that, strangely, there is no return address.

My current hypothesis is that this motor was shipped from an unrelated party to an unrelated party and the shipment broke and it fell out. Finally somehow someone at that facility mistakenly decided that it was destined to go to me and that's how I got it.

I will wait a month for someone to contact me, but I am not holding my breath. If no one does, I will dispose of this motor.

I have looked it over. It is missing some minor parts. It is a sidemount motor, it hangs from the side of something. There are no bottom mounts. It also has a sprocket. It's as though it was for driving a pump or a hydraulic system or some such.

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What, no pictures? :) :) :)

Jon

I now think that perhaps it is a motor from a badass motorcycle...

Here are the photos:

Almost certainly a motorcycle engine. Can't think offhand of anything else Suzuki builds with a chain drive. Wish someone would ship me one out of the blue. I'd feel obligated to do something with it, like build a killer gokart. (figuratively, but perhaps literally...)

Jon

that would be a free time killer gokart:)

I will write all my ebay sellers from whom I have not yet received stuff, but that should be barely 1-2 people.

Looks like a street motorcycle engine.

Wayne D.

Yup, motorcycle engine. The top center picture shows a shifter shaft coming out under the sprocket. Nice looking engine, but I'm not up on Suzuki street bikes.

I bet somebody's wondering where it is.

Gary Brady Austin, TX

Yep... I am going to start looking from whom I have not yet received stuff... will write them... As I said earlier, the tracking number from fedex was a "dead end" and had no return address in their database.

On a friend's suggestion, I also checked ebay completed items. No sight of that engine. WTF

Perhaps it is full of drugs or some other contraband, and the thugs are simply waiting to make sure the police have not tracked the shipment. If so, they will be contacting you soon!

There are no unaccounted for ebay items that I won, except for the carbonator pump that I won yesterday and one more small item from IL. Could not be that. I wrote to several sellers who were supposed to send me stuff.

that's OK... my life is weird without drugs

That engines looks like serious $. You'd think Fedex would show more concern.

The fedex woman could not give a shit and I felt like she wanted me to stop bothering them. I have no need to pester them. If they want the engine, they can ask me. I told them that I received what I never expected, she knows all she needs to know.

I doubt that fedex actually wants to deal with a used motorcycle engine that they damaged in transit (one aluminim cover broke).

If I had a square wave tig welder, I could weld it back... it is not load bearing. But as of now, I only have a DC welder.

Search ebay completed auctions for something that looks like it?

I already did, at my friend's suggestion. Check out my first post in this thread, there are model numbers etc. I looked them up and could not find anything. Maybe you would have better luck.

It is a 2.8L inline 4 cylinder engine.

My guess would be that the engine was damaged in an accident while still attached to a bike, hence the reason for removing it from the bike...

Search ebay completed auctions for something that looks like it? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I already did, at my friend's suggestion. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ How about checking other items listed by the same seller for people you have dealt with recently?

BTW, I admire your diligence in attempting to do the right thing, even though there is nothing in it for you, and a free engine if you do nothing.