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Old Jul 12, 2012 | 10:12 AM
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Carb ID

Took the carb off my car today and I believe it's for a M/T.
7029253 UC
0627

What is the UC and the 0627?

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Old Jul 12, 2012 | 12:02 PM
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The "UC" is what was called a "broadcast code". How it was used, I don't know.

The "0627" is the date of manufacture for your carburetor. This is interesting in that your carburetor was manufactured on either the 62nd day of 1967 or the 62nd day of 1977. Your 7029253 carburetor should be for a 1969 Olds 4-4-2 with a manual transmission. Given that this carb number probably didn't even exist in 1967, I would surmise that your carb is what was called a "service replacement", manufactured in 1977.

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Old Jul 12, 2012 | 07:09 PM
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Old Jul 12, 2012 | 07:39 PM
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The broadcast sheet is used in the vehicle assembly plant to tell the line workers what parts go on a particular vehicle. Since part numbers are too long to read on the line they use letter codes. So, a vehicle needing a particular carburetor had the two letter code printed on the broadcast sheet and the coorisponding two letter code was on the carburetor. This same concept was used for many of the parts on the car. The parts either had stickers on them with the code, ink stamped codes on stamped on codes.

This system is still in use at many of the world's car assembly plants.

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The "UC" is what was called a "broadcast code". How it was used, I don't know.

The "0627" is the date of manufacture for your carburetor. This is interesting in that your carburetor was manufactured on either the 62nd day of 1967 or the 62nd day of 1977. Your 7029253 carburetor should be for a 1969 Olds 4-4-2 with a manual transmission. Given that this carb number probably didn't even exist in 1967, I would surmise that your carb is what was called a "service replacement", manufactured in 1977.

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Old Jul 13, 2012 | 07:03 AM
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...and thanks for the info on the broadcast code!

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Old Jul 15, 2012 | 10:24 PM
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service replacement carbs. don't have broadcast/assembly codes stamped into them. there was no need, so they didn't.

to the OP, are you sure the last digit is a 7, not a 9?


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Old Jul 16, 2012 | 04:25 AM
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Here is a pic.
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Old Jul 16, 2012 | 09:14 AM
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thx for the pic, it's clearly a 7, as you said. seeing as how it doesn't look like the numbering has been molested, i'm going with a typo in the date code. julian dating shows it to be a valid date (friday, march 3, for 1967, monday, march 3, for 1969). maybe when they set the roll stamp numbers on monday morning, somebody had a case of "sausage fingers" and bumped the year down by 2.


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Old Jul 16, 2012 | 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Boiler_81
The broadcast sheet is used in the vehicle assembly plant to tell the line workers what parts go on a particular vehicle. Since part numbers are too long to read on the line they use letter codes. So, a vehicle needing a particular carburetor had the two letter code printed on the broadcast sheet and the coorisponding two letter code was on the carburetor. This same concept was used for many of the parts on the car. The parts either had stickers on them with the code, ink stamped codes on stamped on codes.

This system is still in use at many of the world's car assembly plants.
You've got the right idea, but the whole broadcast code system was not made for the line workers. It was a numbering system developed to have simplified *and* uniform numbers for parts and sub-assemblies. Many parts and sub-assemblies that part of the final assembly did not have a Broadcast codes on them. The "use" for this system was universal in the plant from the drawing board to final assembly.

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Old Jul 16, 2012 | 11:57 AM
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Thanks gentlemen for the info!!!
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