Hi everyone. I lurk here often learning things about mustangs. But very seldom post. I do have a question. I am working on my 69 mk 1 Q code non a/c car. I was sandblasting the leaf springs and found paint marks on the rear of both springs violet and gold. One had gold then violet and the other was violet then gold. Does this mean anything left and right possibly. Or just some assembly line guy messing with things.
First it was not the car plant or that assembly line that marked the front or rear springs. It was the provider that supplied the car assembly plant that did it.
Since the marking of parts was likely one seniority step above the guys that sweep the floors based on skill and training they sometimes got the stripes backwards in a batch of springs or even drivelines ever so often. Can envision that a group of these parts were lined up and the worker simple got the brush and paint out and did one after another till the group of parts were all marked, dried then another batch done in the same fashion. Have a fair number of examples and most of the time, likely since they were delivered to the assembly line at the car plan in bulk most of the time both springs were installed from the same batch or day of production. Its the overlapping from the one shipment to the next that would create the mismatch that you dicovered
