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Offline Coralsnake

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Rear leaf spring appearance
« on: October 18, 2014, 10:44:35 AM »
I thought there was a previous post about the appearance of rear leaf springs. I know its not Shelby specific, so it should be fairly straight forward.....

Offline Twilight65

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Re: Rear leaf spring appearance
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2014, 02:24:38 PM »
Are you talking about maybe an article from the Library section.
http://concoursmustang.com/speegle/Articles/Article%20-%20Natural%20Finishes.pdf
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Re: Rear leaf spring appearance
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2014, 07:10:07 PM »
Pretty dark from the heat treating process,
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Re: Rear leaf spring appearance
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2014, 07:48:39 PM »
Pretty dark from the heat treating process,

+1 With a completely different look/tone to the clamps
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Offline ruppstang

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Re: Rear leaf spring appearance
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2014, 08:25:43 AM »
Agreed dark heat treated metal look not a flat black paint look.

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Re: Rear leaf spring appearance
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2014, 10:19:25 AM »
+1 With a completely different look/tone to the clamps
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Offline mgmradio

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Re: Rear leaf spring appearance
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2014, 06:39:39 PM »
Here are pictures of the springs from my 4500 mile 65 coupe with handling package. Springs were removed to clean off the black paint and undercoating that was applied by the original owner. There is a definite blue cast to them.
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