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deuce_roadster · 04-13-2019, 09:39 AM

Thanks David. You will probably be hanging out in the Keys until the snow ends up at your other place!
We have a May bowl cover with no detents in the choke lever and other May covers that do. Somewhere in the service bulletins we saw where it said that changed in August so that is probably a mistake or typo.
Looking forward to seeing your cut away pictures and maybe close ups of the March carb and what # it was.
I hadn't thought of maybe some of the 1,2,3,4 changes were done en mass to prevent constant retooling the manufacturing. Maybe some of those numbers only exist on the engineering drawings and not on the float bowls. We are inquiring with the Detroit Public Library as they have records from DL from the 1800s until at least 1920. Maybe they have up into the 30s. Also going to check with U.M. library special collections. Can't hurt to ask.
We figured it was a bad sign that Dave Cole didn't snoop this out!
Thanks again,
Mike

04-13-2019, 09:39 AM	#4
deuce_roadster Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Shelton, WA Posts: 3,800	Re: Detroit Lubricator minutiae Thanks David. You will probably be hanging out in the Keys until the snow ends up at your other place! We have a May bowl cover with no detents in the choke lever and other May covers that do. Somewhere in the service bulletins we saw where it said that changed in August so that is probably a mistake or typo. Looking forward to seeing your cut away pictures and maybe close ups of the March carb and what # it was. I hadn't thought of maybe some of the 1,2,3,4 changes were done en mass to prevent constant retooling the manufacturing. Maybe some of those numbers only exist on the engineering drawings and not on the float bowls. We are inquiring with the Detroit Public Library as they have records from DL from the 1800s until at least 1920. Maybe they have up into the 30s. Also going to check with U.M. library special collections. Can't hurt to ask. We figured it was a bad sign that Dave Cole didn't snoop this out! Thanks again, Mike