A buddy in town had an interesting comment and I had to go buy one to check it out...

I buy Standard Hygrade vacc. advance cans when I rebuild a dizzy, if it needs something other than the 'stock' can....
now oddly enough these have an 'ink stamp' on the arm side of the diaphragm housing...

If you have a points, or V8 can they are numbered/lettered AG-XX (AG-11, etc..)

The EI versions are:

VC-185 AH-6
VC-208 AH-12
etc....

Now, I went and bought a 'Wells' brand vacc can for 1/2 the price for comparison.... it is marked and stamped exactly like the Standard-Hygrade models.....

So either, the chinese are building and making very nice counterfeits... or they are made by one company, and Wells only charges a small % for putting it in a baggy, vs. SMP who puts it in a nice box....

Are these still made 'here'?




thanks,

-D.Idiot

That must have been a recent change because just a few months ago I bought three Standard Motor Products vacuum advance cans and all are stamped on the arm.

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Joshua

they are stamped on the arm too, but there is an ink stamp on the back side of the vac. pod... The VC-208 I have I bought 3 years back to recondition one of my Feather Duster dizzy's, it's stamped 11x on the arm, and AH-12 ink stamp on the back of the pod... I had a list going since I had bought a 'stockpile' of these things....

So now I wonder if these are all made by Fed-Mog and just sourced to the other brands and packaged...

I'll take some pick tomorrow



-D.Idiot

It's likely they're still made here, if they're even still made at all (not enough volume to justify starting up production elsewhere, if there's even enough volume to justify doing anything but selling off existing stocks). It is almost certain at this point that only one company are making them and everyone else who offer them just buy and package under their own number. I'm not sure who it would be — often in a case like this, it's a company not widely known in the automotive aftermarket. I'm thinking of the all-metal, curved-pipe '61-'69 Mopar PCV valves, which in the end — after all the aftermarket makers had quit making them — were only made by the company that originally supplied Chrysler. Stanadyne is the name, and they're huge in diesel fuel injection components at the OE level, but for the last few years of aftermarket availability on these valves, whether you bought a Fram FV-131 or a Stant CV-759 or whatever, it was in fact a Stanadyne valve (and even stamped as such if you looked closely).

I don't recognise the AH-11, AH-6 (or AG-11, AG-6, etc.) type of number as anyone's in particular, so I donno where these are coming from.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

hello,
fortunately,I have located a supply company that does a repair service here in Australia.
whilst I have only used their service twice,they seem to present a good "change over" product.
how you go about repairing a vac. can I know not,but it obviously can be done,and done reliably and well.

http://www.advancediaphragmoptions.com/index.html

regards,Rod

Now that is one heck of an interesting link. If they can rebuild vacuum advance units, then it seems almost certain they can also rebuild heat/aircon vacuum actuators...

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

For the last 10 years whether I ordered a can from Echlin, Standard, Wells, etc... they all have this ink stamp on them... and have the typical advance stamp on the actuating arm.... only OEM chrysler versions have the sticker with 4 digit dizzy part code, and a bar code on the pod and the stamp on the arm...


As it sits if you find a can on your junkyard find or have a mystery can with this stamp... this is the translation as I have decoded it so far...


Standard/BWD/STAMP
EI
VC-184/V342/AH-6
VC-185/V343/AH-7
VC-208/V411/AH-12
VC-239/V410/AH-11

Points
VC-167/---/AG-11
VC-168/---/AG-6
VC-173/---/AG-9

Cheers!


-D.Idiot