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Offline DaveF

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Spring Stripe orientation
« on: March 10, 2025, 12:01:17 AM »
After searching the library as well as several posts, I am still a little unclear as to how my Spring stripes will be viewed when they are on the car. My Build Sheet says that they are Gold-Pink for my car. So if the springs are painted upside down, will the stripes be presented as Pink-Gold when they are on the car? Also, there is no color shown for the right spring. Does that mean that only the left one has paint marks, and the right one is left bare? Thanks
1970 Mustang Mach One
428 SCJ w/Drag Pak 3.91
Metuchen plant
Built 9/5/1969

Offline Bob Gaines

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Re: Spring Stripe orientation
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2025, 01:07:46 AM »
After searching the library as well as several posts, I am still a little unclear as to how my Spring stripes will be viewed when they are on the car. My Build Sheet says that they are Gold-Pink for my car. So if the springs are painted upside down, will the stripes be presented as Pink-Gold when they are on the car? Also, there is no color shown for the right spring. Does that mean that only the left one has paint marks, and the right one is left bare? Thanks
There is no left and right spring . They are the same and consequently striped the same. The assembly line worker is looking for the build sheet two colors to identify the correct coil for the given car. The order in which the colors are viewed is irrelevant to the worker.
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Re: Spring Stripe orientation
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2025, 09:33:57 AM »
This is how they were done on the '69 San Jose car I owned.



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Re: Spring Stripe orientation
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2025, 01:41:29 PM »
This is how they were done on the '69 San Jose car I owned.
The springs were typically painted with the coil sitting on the flat end as the brush strokes in Jim's picture indicate . The coil is installed opposite of that when mounted in the car. That brush stroke direction is something to be aware of if marking the springs when they are already mounted . 
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Re: Spring Stripe orientation
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2025, 02:13:57 PM »
The springs were typically painted with the coil sitting on the flat end as the brush strokes in Jim's picture indicate . The coil is installed opposite of that when mounted in the car. That brush stroke direction is something to be aware of if marking the springs when they are already mounted .


In Jim's pic, the gold paint marks are running down the sides of the coils, like it was laying on the side.
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Re: Spring Stripe orientation
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2025, 05:36:46 PM »

In Jim's pic, the gold paint marks are running down the sides of the coils, like it was laying on the side.
My observation is not seeing the brush strokes distinctively running to the side like if it was laying down when painted . It could of course been painted  standing up when painted and then it was laid down for whatever reason if you see some slight sag in the paint . That is why I said "typically" instead of a absolute like this is the only way it was.  Logically the easiest and most stable way of marking is standing up on the flat rather then rolling unstable like if laying on its side. There is the typical and the less typical. I was remarking about how it was typically done.
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