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« on: April 12, 2020, 08:22:35 PM »
Since 68 and prior Muncie's don't have anything in the stamp to tell you what the internals are, and the metal p/n tag in those years does not have the 2-letter broadcast sheet code for the trans on it, I have always assumed there was either a tag, sticker or grease pencil marking of some sort showing the broadcast code. But I have never found one with any evidence of any of those things. There is usually a single-digit number brushed on in black paint where the shifter would mount on the tailhousing, but never a broadcast code.
Have any of you every found anything on a pre-69 Muncie with the broadcast code?
What prompted me to ask this is in the pic below. This is the original M20 trans from a 67 Chevelle SS built at Fremont. VIN is on the trans so it is original. The car was wrecked in late 1969 or early 1970 and put in dry storage, and shows a little over 20K miles. Obviously the engine leaked like a sieve from all the grease present. But there is the clear outline of a sticker (or something like that) on the side cover. If you account for the sticker going down into the indention for the corner side cover bolt, it is a perfect oval shape -- too perfect to be some random mark that happened by accident. It is 1-7/8" long and 1-1/8" tall. If it was a sticker it would have been raised up on the front edge where it went across the casting number, which would explain why some grease and dirt got behind the leading edge of it to make the dirty spot in the middle at the front.
Any ideas? Could this be where there was a sticker with the XS broadcast ID code on it ?? Thanks!
Jeff Helms
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