Just simple this and that's on my truck of late...... I'm trying to wrap up a landscape job.
Finally installed my harmonic and timing cover. Oil pan due any day
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now, and my rear suspension is pending me for powder coat. So yeah, awfully short on assembly so far.
I picked up new shackles for the rear leaf springs. The shackles were a bit scraped up, so I used Eastwood's "phosphate paint" and etch primer I picked up for the bench seat brackets.
If it holds up I'll be happy as a clam. It's very close to phosphate coating, even for the trained eye. Nearly feels like phosphate. Traces of "bling" as well, but the pics didn't pick it up.
On a side, somehow I thought the parts on these trucks were primarily Manganese phosphate. That's wrong. Per this website, they're Zinc phosphate.
http://429mustangcougarinfo.50megs.com/new_page_26.htm
I should probably check this stuff out before I go painting
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Per this website, zinc phosphate makes for a nice under surface for powder coat. Strikes me that would apply to paints as well. Time will tell.
https://www.pfonline.com/articles/zi...s-zinc-plating
The first website reads zinc phosphate is phosphate and oil ON TOP of a zinc base plating. Yet the second website reads zinc plating is more resistant to corrosion than zinc phosphate
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.