'73 torsion bars - which end is which?

["Bill Watson" <wwatson@xxxxxxxxx>]

All Chrysler Corporation parts are even-right and odd-left in 1973.   This
holds true for car and truck parts.

Not sure when they started it though.   Judging by the parts books I have,
they began this arrangement around 1961, with it being firmly entrenched by
1964.

It also holds for Studebaker parts, by the way, at least during the 1960's.

Bill
Vancouver, BC



----- Original Message -----
From: "kenyon wills" <imperialist60@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: IML: '73 torsion bars - which end is which?


> > Right bar - one end says "UPD513L" the other end says
> > "513L 1.02"
> > Left bar - one end says "UPD512R" the other end says
> > "512R 1.02"
> >
>
> Somebody else fill in the blank, but Lowell Howe said that
> even numbered parts were for one side (drivers or pass.)
> and odd numbered parts go on the other for all Imperial
> (maybe chryco) parts.  I bet that there are other parts on
> your car that would allow you to deduce the answer to the
> above contention.
>
> =====
> Kenyon Wills
> 6o LeBaron - America's Most Carefully Built Car
> 73 LeBaron - Long Low & Luxurious
>
>