67 C2 Steering Linkage painting question
A thread was posted last week that asked about the finish on the bolts/nuts that held the clamps in place on the steering linkage adjusting sleeves.
That raised my memory/curiosity about the 67 TMJG concerning the coating on these parts.
Per the note below, posted by John Hinckley on March 1 2004, all of these parts were preassembled, including the manual steering pitman arm and the idler arm, at CHEVROLET/BUFFALO, and then painted/coated with a black chassis paint.
The 67 TMJG states the idler arm is a natural finish.
My question: Can the idler arm be ALL/partially black contrary to the TMJG and receive no point deduction for finish?
"Steve -
The "knuckles" are the spindles - the forgings that attach to the ball joints at the top and bottom and contain the wheel spindle. Chevrolet-Buffalo painted the complete steering linkage assembly (including the relay rod, steering idler arm, inner and outer tie rod ends, adjusting sleeves, and clamps, and pitman arm on manual steering assemblies) with a sticky, cheap "chassis black" paint that took forever to dry before they folded it up and tossed it in a big green steel shipping gondola. It was hung on a conveyor from the top hole in the steering idler, and the steering idler didn't always get coverage, which is why the JG says it's "natural". The guy who pre-set the tie rod lengths in the bench fixture before it went on the car, the guy who installed it on the car, and the guy in the toe-in pit who did the final adjustment and tightened the clamps all went through several pair of heavy terrycloth gloves during a shift, as the sticky "chassis black" paint soaked the gloves in short order and left stains on your skin that were nearly impossible to wash off. The "good old days"..."
That raised my memory/curiosity about the 67 TMJG concerning the coating on these parts.
Per the note below, posted by John Hinckley on March 1 2004, all of these parts were preassembled, including the manual steering pitman arm and the idler arm, at CHEVROLET/BUFFALO, and then painted/coated with a black chassis paint.
The 67 TMJG states the idler arm is a natural finish.
My question: Can the idler arm be ALL/partially black contrary to the TMJG and receive no point deduction for finish?
"Steve -
The "knuckles" are the spindles - the forgings that attach to the ball joints at the top and bottom and contain the wheel spindle. Chevrolet-Buffalo painted the complete steering linkage assembly (including the relay rod, steering idler arm, inner and outer tie rod ends, adjusting sleeves, and clamps, and pitman arm on manual steering assemblies) with a sticky, cheap "chassis black" paint that took forever to dry before they folded it up and tossed it in a big green steel shipping gondola. It was hung on a conveyor from the top hole in the steering idler, and the steering idler didn't always get coverage, which is why the JG says it's "natural". The guy who pre-set the tie rod lengths in the bench fixture before it went on the car, the guy who installed it on the car, and the guy in the toe-in pit who did the final adjustment and tightened the clamps all went through several pair of heavy terrycloth gloves during a shift, as the sticky "chassis black" paint soaked the gloves in short order and left stains on your skin that were nearly impossible to wash off. The "good old days"..."
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