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Camaro Research Group Discussion => Decoding/Numbers => Topic started by: nuch_ss396 on June 10, 2008, 12:00:50 AM
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Hi Guys!
Can anyone give me a 101 level course on the use of assembly codes on THM400 transmissions during the 1969 model year?
Were these codes sequential, or Julian, or something else?
I have a CX coded THM400 with the following information: 69X - 395
(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/nuch_ss396/MVC-005F.jpg)
Did each year start with number 1 and progress from there? What does the 395 designate? Julian date, sequence number, etc.?
What does the 2160 designate?
Help would be appreciated.
Nuch
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Check this, Steve: http://www.camaros.org/drivetrain.shtml#TransmissionNumbers
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395 is not a julian date. Julian dates goes from 1 to 365. counts the days of the year.
Tom
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According to the CRG link provided ( THANKS ED! ), I guess it is a Julian date code. However, it rolls over into the next year.
So this transmission was assembled on the 29th of January 1969. That makes sense because it came from a early March '69 L/78.
Now, the 2160 is a sequence number according to the same link. What exactly is a sequence number? Was it the 2,160th THM400
built that model year, or the 2,160th Turbo-Hydramatic built? Anyone know exactly what the sequence number represents?
Steve
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I'm guessing here - Maybe it's the 2160th CX configured TH400 built for 69? ???
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GM's use of Julian dates would start on the first calendar day of the car model year (Jan 1, 1968 for a 1969 model) and continue thru the end of production of parts for the 69 model. So if parts production continued into 1969 it would be 366+x days. Its confusing but that how the did it.
1968 was a leap year!
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I'm guessing here - Maybe it's the 2160th CX configured TH400 built for 69? ???
I was wondering about that myself. But with a late January '69 date, could Chevrolet possibly
have built and installed 2159 CX's before mine? Were there even that many?
Steve