Carb ID
July 12th, 2012, 12:02 PM
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Randy C.
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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.
Randy C.
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.
Randy C.
July 12th, 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.
This system is still in use at many of the world's car assembly plants.
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.
Randy C.
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.
Randy C.
July 16th, 2012, 09:14 AM
#8
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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.
bill
bill
July 16th, 2012, 11:11 AM
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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.
This system is still in use at many of the world's car assembly plants.
Last edited by wmachine; July 16th, 2012 at 11:16 AM.
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