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Originality / Tie Rods
« on: April 03, 2009, 01:16:14 AM »
Has anyone seen this before? I was cleaning up my original tie rods to restore and noticed the center where the zerk fitting is was painted black! I lightly cleaned the one on the right first & just started the one on the left (you can see where the paint is just starting to flake off) and figured I'd better go grab the camera! And YES, it's paint not dried up caked on grease. Is this how they were from the factory? No other signs of black paint anywhere, only the orange inspection marks from forging. All the NOS ones I’ve seen were plain steel. Also, pretty sure the outer is a replacement from the numbers stamped in the center and the zerk fitting but could someone confirm that too? Notice that center is black also but doesn’t look like paint?