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Delco Part Numbers Explained

Almost all Delco lever shock absorbers have, somewhere on the casting, inscription "Delco, Made In Dayton, U.S.A" (on some word "Delco" is replaced with "Delco-Lovejoy" or "Lovejoy").

Part number is a four-digit number with a letter or two (e.g. 1948A, 1430CA, ...); letter portion is used to distinguish between left and right or between shocks with identical bodies and different arms. The part number can be found on most shocks:

Photos below are to help with ID only, please go to individual car listings for  accurate pricing, prices below are approximate.

  • on shocks with screw-on caps on each end of the body, on one of the endcaps, usually on the cap on the arm side of the body;
  • on shocks with cover plate (held on the body with ordinary screws), the number is usually on the plate;
  • some shocks have number stamped on the valve cover (looks like large, approx. 1/2 inch diameter screw or nut)
Delco part
number range
Description Application Rebuild price
each
Sample pictures
(not to scale)
n/a Most early shocks, before about 1930 (many, but not all are using straps for linking shock arm with the spring) do not have part number in the form described above

  • Auburn, Buick, Cadillac, Chrysler, De Soto, Dodge, Graham, La Salle, Locomobile, Marmon, Nash, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Reo, Studebaker
  • $345-$485  
    $585
    $585
    1200-1299 Single arm, front and rear, stamped metal cover
  • Chevrolet (Chevy), Crosley
  • $215
    1300-1399 Single arm, front and rear, stamped metal cover
  • Buick, Chrysler
  • $345
    1400-1499 Single arm, front and rear, stamped metal cover
  • Buick, Chevrolet (Chevy), Chrysler, Crosley, DeSoto, Dodge, G.M.C. Truck, Graham, International, Plymouth, Pontiac, Studebaker, Yellow
  • $215

    $285 with ride control

    1500-1599
    except 1570-79
    Single arm, front and rear, stamped metal cover, part # on the cover
  • Buick
  • $215
    1570-1579 Single arm, front and rear, V-shaped body, arm and shaft one piece, part # on a valve cover, near the bottom of the V
  • Buick, Cadillac, Duesenberg, La Salle, Stutz
  • $585
    1600-1699 Delco-Lovejoy Duodraulic, made in Dayton USA Single arm, front and rear, with or without ride control (external adjustment),part # on a rectangular plate on the frame side of the shock body
  • Cadillac, Dodge, G.M.C. Truck, International, Mack, Packard, Pierce-Arrow, Reo, White, Yellow Truck
  • $585 most

    $645 if with ride control lever.
    1700-1799 Single arm, front and rear, part # on a screw-on endcap
  • Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet (Chevy), Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge, G.M.C. Truck, International, LaSalle, Oldsmobile, Packard, Plymouth, Pontiac, Reo, Cord, Studebaker, White, Yellow
  • $265
    ($385 if with ride control)
    1800-1899 Single arm, rear, screw-in ends, part # on valve cover
  • Cadillac, CryslerCord
  • $545,

    with ride control lever $585

     
    1900, 1902 Double arm, front, screw-in ends, part # on valve cover
  • Buick, Cord
  • $645
    1910-1939 Double arm, front, part # on a screw-on endcap
  • Buick, Cadillac, Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge, LaSalle, Nash-Lafayette, Oldsmobile, Packard, Plymouth, Pontiac
  • $285

    (1921A/B $315)

     

     

    1940-1949 Double arm, front, part # on a screw-on endcap
  • Buick, Cadillac, LaSalle, Nash-Lafayette, Oldsmobile, Packard, Pontiac
  • $265
    1950 Double arm, front, vertical piston
  • Cadillac
  • $645
    1951, 1952 Double arm, front, screw-in ends, part # on valve cover
  • Cadillac1951C/D
  • Packard1952A/B
  • $545
    1960, 1966 Double arm, front, part # on a screw-on endcap
  • Packard

  • $285

    with welded or spring  loaded bolt

    2000-2099 Delco-Lovejoy, Duodraulic, made in Dayton USA, Single arm, screw-in plugs on each end of the body
  • Cadillac, Chevrolet (Chevy), Dodge, G.M.C. Truck, International, Kenworth, Mack, Packard, Reo, Studebaker, White
  • $545

    with ride control $585

    2100-2199 Single arm, rear, stamped metal cover, part # on the cover
  • Buick, Chevrolet (Chevy), Oldsmobile
  • $215
    2200-2299

    Double arm, front, stamped metal cover, part # on the cover,

    Chevy 2200A/B

    Packard 2206A/B

    $285 Chevy,
    $315 Packard