Excellent tip, Ed! I didn't really actually realize what was going on until you pointed it out. Mopars tends to have a lot of things about them that confuse both experienced and non-experienced alike. One question though, where does someone get these books? Is this something that would be in a Hollanders manual or only in factory manuals? This information can be priceless in the right circumstances and would be a good thing to have. Anyway, thanks for the info! Phil Patterson Ed Dea wrote: > Everyone needs to understand that the part number and casting number can be > different. Chrysler did not take the time to insure that both are the same. > This is why we scratch our heads when we can't find the part number in our > parts manual when for a fact, you personally pulled the part off your car. > They mixed and matched parts and came up with another assembled number or > reassigned it a different part number from casting number. Never take the > part numbers so serious that you believe everything it says as the truth and > only the truth. You may be only looking at the casting number and passing > up a true gem of a part because the guy selling it to you is reading it off > of the box it's in or your are reading the part number out of the manual and > he is reading it off of the part itself. > > On my 56 Fury, I was able to locate tail light housings and back-up housings > that were bare metal and not chromed. I wanted to get these because the > plating would turn out better than rechroming over pitted metal. The > technology of plating then and now is night and day and given the choice I > would rather have smooth clean metal than ugly pitted housings. Both of > these parts had the same casting number, but the bare metal one had a > different part number. > > The side mirrors were the same story. Just like you I was looking for the > real part number but stumbled upon a guy who was reading only the casting > number. Luckily I had both numbers written down and made another score. > > Ed > 56 Fury > 64 Dart GT Conv > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dieter Bauer <dbkabauer@AZTEC-NET.COM> > To: L-FORWARDLOOK@lists.psu.edu <L-FORWARDLOOK@lists.psu.edu> > Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 10:39 AM > Subject: Re: [FWDLK] [Fwd: Mirrors:] > > >John > > > >I have some of these mirrors, the number is on the underside of the > >base, but this may only be the part number for the base because the > >round mirror part is D60074402 but you can't see the number unless you > >take the mirror out. Every component of the mirror has a different > >part number but I don't know the number for the whole assembly. > >Besides all that I don't think these mirrors are for a 59 they were > >not used until 60 or 61. I have them on my 60 and 62 Fury but my 59 > >has different mirrors. None of the part numbers you mentioned show up > >in the 59 parts manual. Maybe someone else has additional info on > >this. > > > >Dieter > >-----Original Message----- > >From: John Bartell <jrbartell@TDS.NET> > >To: L-FORWARDLOOK@lists.psu.edu <L-FORWARDLOOK@lists.psu.edu> > >Date: November 15, 1999 1:04 PM > >Subject: [FWDLK] [Fwd: Mirrors:] > > > > > >>Hi Dave, > >> He said they were on the support pieces, or the two pieces > >that lean > >>forward and then back to the mirror!!?? He said these have three > >tubes > >>or metal supports, one in the middle is for the cable. In my > >collision > >>manual, it says single or dual struts...so I guess the struts must be > >>where the numbers are. > >> Thanks for any help, John in WI
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