I'm thinking that, back when I was a kid, most junkyards had a big book that told what parts would interchange with others. Maybe I'm dreaming, but that's what I think I remember. If I'm right, that would be a wonderful thing to have or to be able to use online, etc. If such a thing is around today, could one of you let me know where I might find one, or find access to one.
Mike Burns 1940 Chev 1/2 ton 1953 Chev 1/2 ton 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coupe 1947 Indian Chief 1943 Indian 741
called the 'Hollander Interchange Manual', probably any established wrecking yard has it - do some searching around the net and you may find it, either online or in hardcopy
"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir "When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me Some TF series details & TF heater pics
GM published an Interchangeable Parts manual/catalog (image attached, below). They can be bought on eBay.
I do not know if a reprint is being sold. I do not know what range of years might have been published (the one below is 37-49) I have not seen the whole book "published"/posted online.
I have a 1952 The Hollander - The "Bible" Of Interchange ... Over 550,00 Interchanges ... For Automobiles And Trucks etc etc It list bearing interchanges, generators, clutches, differentials : on and on and on for 552 pages.
As Flxible mentioned, the books were a staple of old junkyards and thus they felt many a greasy finger .
Many of the older books led a hard life and they fell apart and were replaced as older cars and trucks disappeared from the yards. My version needed me to laminate a plastic cover on the outside to keep it intact. It will be one the books I sell if I start reducing my boxes of old truck paperwork as I no longer wander the junkyards of my youth.
