Close-ups of car suspension parts like springs, steering linkage…

The front coil springs on this particular car have the double red stripe code for 427 heavy duty applications. There were other possible codes tor 427 cars as well, such as a double gold, a white and red, ora single orange stripe, depending upon the spring rate. the frame itself is gloss black. The meticulous attention to detail is evident in this shot The steering box retains its natural cast metal finish while carrying the factory white, green and blue inspection markings. The brake lines, fuel lines, brackets and ref talning bolts are also left with a natural metal iinlsh while As for the rear suspension, the leal springs and shackles are left in their natural glory while the rear shackle mount is painted gloss black. The white paint dauhs on the Ieal spring ends signify that they are the six leai heavy dury springs. As for the steering linkage, the manual steering pitman arm is identied by a yellow factory paint mark. The mark on a power steeringeourpped car would be white. This also holds true for the idler arm and bracket and inner tie rods. The outer tie rods have a yellow mark on them regardless of whether the car was equipped with manual or power steering. Looking forward, the .delnch sway bar is identified by the orange stripe while a 94inch sway bar would have a red identification mark. Hed oxide covers the rear differential center section while a natural metal linish is left on the ID tag, pinion snubber and yoke. The green number 4 in the drivers side of the center sec- tion is the rearend ratio code. Not visible is the white number 7 on the passenger side that denotes the work shilt during which the housing was installed. The yellow dot was a signal to the assembler that the center section was to have a 427 yoke installed The pinkand yellow markings on the yoke itself identity it as a 427 yoke. The rearend housing is painted gloss black while the brake backing plates are 30 percent black. Though most manufacturers lefta natural finish on their brake drums, Ford painted its drums. Chassis Black. On cars with the six leaf leaf springs, the outer Uebolts were identified with a yellow stripe While the inners received an orange stripe. As for shock absorbers, the rear as well as the fronts on heavy duty suspensionequipped cars were marked with a white paint daub. The drum brakes are just as intricately detailed as the rest ol the car The blue and red paint on the brake springs are the color codes for heavy duty brake springs. Standard duty springs were white and green The orange and turquoise brake shoe retainer springs are coior coded for their respective upper and lower locations. Red striping on the axle flange indicates that it is a heavy duty tapered, 28spllne axle. MUSCLECAR REVIEW January 1991 39 WWW