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Drive Shaft Color

Rey Tobias

Rey Tobias

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Hi All. I'm restoring a 68 SuperBee. Getting ready to paint the drive shaft except I am not sure what color it was from the factory. It also has an 8.75 rear end. What color was the axle and pumpkin drop-out? Thanks.
 
It was never a color on 68-70...

It was bright natural steel....to take it farther the ends were cast and the welds has the burnage....
 
Is this providing enough help?

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chtampa said:
Did you really paint the tube weld line and the spot welds? I am impressed!
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Thank you....That was the easy part....getting back to the natural tube steel finish was a royal PITA.....

What I used to create the original weld look was 2 colors of gun bluing....
 
I have seen somewhere that there were numbers of some sort on there also. Maybe a stencil for the assemblers. Beautiful work you did, and I thought I was ****.
 
chtampa said:
I have seen somewhere that there were numbers of some sort on there also. Maybe a stencil for the assemblers. Beautiful work you did, and I thought I was ****.
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There are part numbers stamped on the driveshaft....Most do not survive....Mainly because they are a very shallow stamping.

The shaft above is from my GTX and the PN is easily readable but to take a picture of is difficult....I will see if I have a picture on my other device showing that.

There is a inspection mark on the driveshaft it is just not shown in the pics above. It was a brush stripe of white paint towards the front of the drive shaft on the tube....

Thanks for the compliment!
 
I just acid etched mine and then flat cleared it when the rust was off. It was close enough for a driver. I did find a while back in my stash an assembly line used u-joint that had the metal strap across the caps and no grease fitting and little clips around the caps also. Only one I have ever seen.
 
MarPar said:
Hey J, did 68's have the "inertia" ring on them? I dont recall seeing it on my GTX. Though it has been a while since ive under there lol
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The more correct question is did all 68 and 69's have that and it is no....It depended on the application and came with AT or MT......The inertia rings were available in 68/69.....

440/426 driveshafts had the bigger U joints automatically.....and the majority of 4spds I have seen in both years had the inertia ring...

My 69 charger 440 AT did not have the inertia ring but had the large u joints and large diameter drive shaft....
 
Friend had 68 charger no inertia ring, but my 67 r/t does have ring. Thought inertia ring ended in 67?
 
So generally, inertia applies to MT and no inertia applies to AT...all that gets blown up when you talk about Imperials though lol
 
I agree that's why when guys say this is 100% correct i often wonder how you got to that conclusion. Sometimes they put on these cars what was in a bin at that time, so to be intellectually honest unless you we're there when it was made who really knows something easy to deduce as factory normality. Other things not.
 
The thing is one can never say never when it comes to Ma Mopar.....I only take information from the "true" people in the OE world....People who have done extensive research and to mimic factory line mistakes, errors etc.....Not some "fly by night" source......

I love it when people state the day 1 condition.....All restored cars are day 2.....It is only original once....So whats the point? The OE world is to build a car as close to day one status as one can strive to achieve, The judges at the major events scrutinize these cars...Trust me you do not want to see how they pick a car apart......
 
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