Delco spirals...

[Woj]

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Can someone tell me why a boxed set of replacement shocks would have assembly line stickers on them? I thought the "UN" stickers were for the line workers to know which part to grab off the shelf based on the "UN" code on the Chassis Broadcast Copy.

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I've seen numerous NOS shocks in the boxes with the stickers on them. What you say makes sense, but maybe GM took shocks from production stock to put into parts inventory?

Phil Woj.

[Keith Tedford]

Until the '70s, the main GM parts warehouse was in the north end of the car/truck assembly complex in Oshawa. It was moved to Woodstock later. If the line ran short of parts, they would raid the warehouse to keep the line running. Just another little curve that might cause some date codes to be off a little.

[PeteLeathersac]

Do you know of the other way around Keith?.
At shutdown and line changes did they ship bins of line parts off to be Delco boxed and put into the parts stream?.


~ Pete

[Nova Research Project]

Do not forget that GM spec'd the parts to the suppliers. So the spec included the assembly line codes. Many times the only difference between line parts and counter parts would be the packaging.

However there are examples of counter parts being flow coated vs phosphate as the paint held up better on the shelf. So unless GM specified otherwise why would the supplier differentiate.

There were many original counter parts with assembly line codes on them. Especially shocks. Once the original run was over the subsequent runs probably did not have the codes. Especially sticker codes.

Early 60's NOS shocks did not have stickers. But I have seen plenty of late 60's up through late 70's shocks with these stickers.

Stamped codes like pulleys would have been the same until the part was superseded.

Greg