Re: Suggestions on Wires, Spark plugs, and gap settings

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2010/3/30 10:39:45

You're quite welcome, John. I do have some other complete Echlin catalogs with brake switches, door jam switches, overdrive kickdown switches, circuit breakers, directional signal parts, flashers, fuse blocks and holders, headlight switches and relays, horn relays, ignition switches, starter switches and relays, temp sending units and the like. I'll make an effort to post those pages as the occasion arises. When I first got this catalog perhaps 15 years ago, I went out and purchased at least one of every item for my car still in production and I wonder how much longer NAPA will continue to offer some of these items. They've already discontinued the 1932-36 Packard generator control, and others may follow sooner than we'd like. I'd recommend to everyone who intends to keep their car on the road to begin to lay in a stock of such items now while they're readily available and inexpensive, even simple things like starter and generator bushings and brush sets.

These old parts catalogs are gems - when folks see them at flea markets and the like I recommend buying them. I've some others, AC fuel pumps, lines, filters, bowls, and the like, also some very complete old Wagner Lockheed catalogs. Even where the #s have been superceeded, the old number often cross-checks to a modern #.

PS - if you've got a mid-30s and back car, another great resource which you see occasionally at flea markets is the Standard Auto-Electricians Manual, I have Edition T which covers from about 1929 thru 1935 and in addition to wiring diagrams has adjustment & repair procedures for almost every electrical feature of the era. Another great series to keep an eye out for at flea markets and the like is the Universal Catalog of Original Equipment Service Parts which covers the OEM numbers and most all internal service parts for everything from breaker points to windshield wipers.