Expert: Mike Evans - 8/21/2010

Question
I have found the following parts in my shop and do not know what they were purchased for. I am pretty sure they were purchased for various vehicles, please help.
Gabriel Red Ryder Shocks # 81242-73429
Hygrade Jiffy Carb. Kit # 1584
Hygrade Carb. Tune-up parts Secondary Diaphragm # DT160-99
and Champion Spark Plugs RF11YC Copper Plus.
Thanks
Leon

Answer
    Gabriel doesn't put their part numbers on the shocks, just on the box.  If you go to a part store that has a Gabriel paper catalog, there is a guide in the back of the catalog that will tell you what this number corresponds to and another guide that tells you what the part# fits.

    The carb kit fits a GM car, but neither the online catalog for Standard or my favorite vendor gives any more info than that.

    Champion plugs with an "F" part number fit older Fords.  Ford used an 18mm thread with gasket up until the seventies, then switched to the more common 14mm tapered plug.  So, it could fit any old Ford.  Some stationary engines (Kohler, for instance) used the Ford plug, as well

    The diaphragm I can't find in any of my books, but if you can round up a paper Hygrade catalog at a local store, it should have that and the kit application in it.