Hare-tp-Find Parts

[grey beard]

When each of us began our own relationship with MoPar products, some of us realized we were embarking on a journey that would involve a lifetime of hunting hard-to-find parts. This is true mainly because there just are not enough of us out there to make it lucrative for vendors to reproduce all the stuff we need.

Our own slim MoPar population, among which you and I are numbered, also tends to work against us because it serves as a license for those few individuals who do reproduce parts to overcharge blatantly for whatever they sell. Translation – we pay through the nose when we buy the few repro parts available to us.

I am not endorsing this vendor or his products, but today I received in the mail a new 30th. Anniversary 2008-2009 Ford catalog from Mac’s Antique Auto Parts. Most of us would not know how to respond to such a 208-page catalog for MoPar stuff - not that we are in danger of ever seeing such. Each part is laid out in apple-pie order in a well-planned catalog – many pages of carburetor small parts and diagrams, thousands of electrical small parts of the sort most of us only dream about finding for our own vehicles.

My point in this windy dissertation is that there are an amazing number of parts that cross over from Ford o MoPar – light bulbs, solenoids, battery hold-downs and attachments, pick up tail lights, spark plugs, headlamp doors for pickups, wiper blades, etc., etc., etc. The catalog is free and worth every penny. Check it out. :)

www.macsautoparts.com 800-777-0948

[Bob_Koch]

Thanks Dave for the info. I'm ordering mine. I need all the help I can get and I'm not afraid to shop around even it the catalog doesn't say Mopar on the front. As you say, many items are the same or very similar.

[TodFitch]

I have, and do reference, a fairly thick hard copy catalog from the local antique Ford supplier and do find that there are some parts there that I can use. For example, I got my windshield wiper repair kit there. My local Ford store happens to be "All Ford Parts" in Campbell, CA.

However I find that my local "better" auto supply actually has or can get an amazing number of parts that I need. It does help to have your own cross reference from the Mopar part to something newer. That is why I have been building up a database since the day I got my car. It has evolved from note cards to typewritten sheets then to a computer file. It is now an online database accessible at: http://www.ply33.com/Parts/

I am currently revising things so that the "part type codes" used in the 1936-48 Master Parts catalog will be the primary way to access data.

I do need help to extend the coverage. I'd like to get cross references to aftermarket parts up through the P15 era into it. If you would like to help, PM or email me and I can see about setting up access for you to edit and enter data.

[Bodacious]

Macs is as good a vendor as I've ever dealt with. Recently I did a bunch of work on a customer's '64 Ranchero. Anything that wasn't available locally Macs had. Quality and fit was excellent and prices were very reasonable. I completed all work in a reasonable time and the customer then completed a 1400 mile endurance, time and distance run with zero problems. Results: One very happy customer.

[Willis Pingel]

When each of us began our own relationship with MoPar products, some of us realized we were embarking on a journey that would involve a lifetime of hunting hard-to-find parts. This is true mainly because there just are not enough of us out there to make it lucrative for vendors to reproduce all the stuff we need.

Our own slim MoPar population, among which you and I are numbered, also tends to work against us because it serves as a license for those few individuals who do reproduce parts to overcharge blatantly for whatever they sell. Translation – we pay through the nose when we buy the few repro parts available to us.

I am not endorsing this vendor or his products, but today I received in the mail a new 30th. Anniversary 2008-2009 Ford catalog from Mac’s Antique Auto Parts. Most of us would not know how to respond to such a 208-page catalog for MoPar stuff - not that we are in danger of ever seeing such. Each part is laid out in apple-pie order in a well-planned catalog – many pages of carburetor small parts and diagrams, thousands of electrical small parts of the sort most of us only dream about finding for our own vehicles.

My point in this windy dissertation is that there are an amazing number of parts that cross over from Ford o MoPar – light bulbs, solenoids, battery hold-downs and attachments, pick up tail lights, spark plugs, headlamp doors for pickups, wiper blades, etc., etc., etc. The catalog is free and worth every penny. Check it out. :)

www.macsautoparts.com 800-777-0948

Speaking of hard to find parts, I've been looking for a rear universal joint for my '48 b1b, anybody know where I can find one? and is there a ford or chevy that'll work? Bill

[grey beard]

Got mome frp, NAPA - works just fine. part number UJ 1-5900 - rear U-joint.

Hope this helps.

[Bob_Koch]

Tod,

You've really done a lot of work on the online parts list. I've been wanting to do one for the truck side for the last couple of years. It's just such a big job I haven't been able to get started.

[TodFitch]

Got mome frp, NAPA - works just fine. part number UJ 1-5900 - rear U-joint.

Hope this helps.

Tod,

You've really done a lot of work on the online parts list. I've been wanting to do one for the truck side for the last couple of years. It's just such a big job I haven't been able to get started.

If someone wants to help enter truck parts into my database, I don't see why it would be a problem. Whoever is helping would need:

1) The appropriate parts books to get the Chrysler part numbers and/or "part type codes".

2) Help me with setting up the model information (Year, engineering code, etc.)

3) Be willing to use "alpha quality" web data entry forms.

4) Be very careful on deletes (I back up daily but would hate to lose too much information by carelessness).

Volunteers?

P.S. Don't think you have to sit down and do all parts at once. Or even all the parts you know interchanges for at once. I just update one part at a time as I need it or a question arises about it. After a while you end up surprising yourself on how much you have accumulated.