caplug painting

[mike mccleery]

Are the caplugs found on the finish painted body areas such as the trunk lid interior, and door jam areas of the door installed before finish paint or after?

 

[gkent]

Pretty sure they're after paint but before undercoat

 

[moobster]

Are the caplugs found on the finish painted body areas such as the trunk lid interior, and door jam areas of the door installed before finish paint or after?

Those plugs are installed on the assembly line after the car has been through the paint department. At Chrysler in Windsor, the area that installs the trunk rubber, installs the trunk plugs. The area that puts the carpet in, install the floor plugs. They remove the doors after paint and send them down a different line, so the doors off line will install those plugs.
Long story short, they're Black.

 

[mike mccleery]

many thanks

 

[69roadr]

Looks way better after paint

 

[zyzzyx]

The reason for the plugs is so the car can be dipped in grey primer almost to the top of the rear
wheel openings and then after the car comes up the ramp, the primer drains out of the car via
all those holes. Then the car is force dried and painted. Then the plugs are installed.

 

[chtampa]

Weren't the holes also used for jig locating when the sheet metal was welded together?

 

[Bb70charger500]

I knew they were for paint drainage. And that's it ! Can't see them being for anything else as it's weak areas can't really support a jig

 

[zyzzyx]

Correct! and one funny thing about our B bodies is that adjacent panels have arrows stamped into them so the
guys on the assembly line could visually line them up before final line-up and welding!

 

[moparnation74]

The door plugs the OP referred to are to cover access holes for the door hardware and adjustments for the door glass....Depending on the door color some of those plugs closely, hence closely matched the interior door frame color.....

The trunk lid plugs were there for the phosphate dip process....the trunk lid did not get "dip" primer......

The unibody plugs were as others said above. They were utilized in the dip process and also used if the car got water inside the cabin....they also add strength to the panel......

All plugs were installed after paint......

 

[zyzzyx]

Glad you touched on the colored door plugs. On the Roadrunner, Sattelite, and GTX there is a small colored plug
on the face of each door. It's a little one with a point on it. Anyone know if anyone makes these?

 

[69bfan]

Nobody makes an accurate reproduction of the small vent window adjustment plug. AMS Obsolete had a limited supply of the NOS plugs at one time, but not sure if they have any colored ones available. Several vendors sell the reproductions put out by SWR and they do them in colors as well.

 

[moparnation74]

Glad you touched on the colored door plugs. On the Roadrunner, Sattelite, and GTX there is a small colored plug
on the face of each door. It's a little one with a point on it. Anyone know if anyone makes these?

They originals pop up on Ebay.....

Or as Richard said above AMS obsolete have those and a lot of other original plugs NOS...