Interchangeable Parts

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by Joe Colella, Sep 15, 2006.

  1. Joe Colella

    Joe Colella Guest

    To illustrate the reason for my question below, I have learned that the A/C
    compressor on an 82-86 Capri, 82-93 Mustang, 84-86 LTD, 85 Marquis, 85-88
    Cougar and 85-88 Thunderbird are all interchangeable.

    Is there a book or manual (either in print, online or on CD-ROM) that lists
    interchangeable parts?

    Thanks!

    Joe Colella
     
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  2. Joe Colella

    Richard Guest

    You friendly Junk Yard guy has one.

    Richard.
     
    Richard, Sep 15, 2006
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  3. Joe Colella

    Bill Putney Guest

    For occasional lookups like that, you can drill down to the part for a
    particular vehicle on www.car-part.com. It will return a list of
    compatible ones actually existing in junk yards. I've found their
    interchangeability for a given part to be accurate.

    If you are in the business or otherwise have a real constant need for
    interchagneability listings, I'm sure there are companies that sell such
    books, CD's, or on-line subscriptions.

    www.alldata may have such a service among their professional level
    products. Also, I notice that the online OEM dealers all seem to use
    the same third party database called TradeMotion™ for their drill down
    parts lookups. Perhaps they have some all-makes database that you can
    subscribe to. And of course junk yards have interchange computer and
    hard copy resources - find out what they use.

    Bill Putney
    (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
    address with the letter 'x')
     
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  4. Joe Colella

    DeserTBoB Guest

    Same make and model of compressor, yes...mounts and pulleys? MAYBE.
    Back in the '70s through '80s, the Nippondenso 6P34 was a mainstay of
    the Japanese car industry and were all internally the same compressor.
    However, you cannot take a '34 off a Mazda and expect it to fit a
    Honda...the mounts AND the pulley are different. Such is the same
    with later ND 10Ps that went on innumerable Fords...they may, but may
    not, fit a Chrysler application that uses the same basic compressor
    without having to R&R the pulley/clutch and/or fiddle with the mounts
    and service ports.
    Hollander's been doing that for decades, but watch out...just because
    something "fits" doesn't mean it's the right part! Long-ago example:
    The Hollender book says that a Chevy "corporate" rear end will replace
    an Oldsmobile "C" rear end on a full sized late '60s-early '70s Delta
    88. Right...it'll bolt right up. However, take off down the road and
    then one realizes that the Chevy's probably a 3.07:1 and the Olds was
    a 2.56:1. Ooops!

    I had a neighbor do this very thing and couldn't figure out why
    everyone was passing him on the freeway. On top of that, the Olds "C"
    rear end was superior to the Chevrolet-used "corporate" crap. The
    same went for GMC and Chevy light duty trucks. Until they were reined
    in by the beancounters on Woodward Ave. in '63, GMC Truck and Coach
    selected their own driveline parts from outside suppliers, regardless
    of what Chevy did. Thus, V6 powered GMCs had Spicer 60 rear ends,
    while Chevies used the inferior "corporate" one with a different
    ratio. Doing a swap invariably would screw up the speedo and affect
    power and economy. The beancounters also put the kybosh on GMC using
    the tried and true cast iron HydraMatic and forced them to go to
    "Powerslide" from Chevrolet by ordering Detroit Transmission to
    discontinue the HydraMatic in mid 1962. This also put struggling AMC
    in a bind, as they also used a lighter version of this transmission.
    AMC went off to Borg-Warner until getting the Torqueflite A-727 and
    A-904 in the '70s, which was the beginning of the Chrysler takeover of
    AMC.

    GM's reasoning was simple...they had to quit the old cast iron
    HydraMatic line to change the floor space to make the new (in '64) and
    cheaper-to-build Turbo HydraMatic 400 that showed up in Cadillacs in
    mid '64. Cost savings per car by going from Dual Coupling HydraMatic
    to THM: $175 a copy. Loss of efficiency to the car owner: about
    10%. The icing on the cake was that they could screw over a tiny but
    bothersome competitor to Chevrolet, AMC. Switching to obsolete B-W
    transmissions cost AMC dearly, as they had had a low price, long term
    contract to furnish HydraMatics to AMC, signed in 1956 by none other
    than George Romney, father of the now self-destructed Republican
    governor of Massachusetts.
     
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  5. Joe Colella

    Joe Colella Guest

     
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    Joe Colella Guest

    Thanks!
     
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    Joe Colella Guest

    Thanks!
     
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    Joe Colella Guest

    Thanks!
     
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    Joe Pfeiffer Guest

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    Bill Putney Guest

    Looks like they provide a fidner servcice similar to car-part.com, as
    well as interchange manuals for purchase.

    Bill Putney
    (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
    address with the letter 'x')
     
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  11. Joe Colella

    DeserTBoB Guest

    Tada! An excellent resource. Hollander Interchange Manuals ahve been
    the junkyard standard since at least the 1940s. They were a
    publication of Motor for years, and are now owned by Solera. Just
    watch out...although parts might fit, they may not be "right!"
     
    DeserTBoB, Sep 16, 2006
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