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bcmiller

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Re: Original 67-69 Camaro driveshafts - information requested about your car
« Reply #150 on: December 21, 2015, 02:40:11 PM »
Thanks Darrell.  I think there should be a third stripe.  Hard to see, but might be there?

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Bryon / 1968 Camaro SS 396 coupe - now old school 468 big block
1967 Camaro RS/SS 396 coupe L35/M40 - 4 generation family project
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Re: Original 67-69 Camaro driveshafts - information requested about your car
« Reply #151 on: December 24, 2015, 05:13:38 PM »
67
NOR
05A
L78
M20
50.5
U bolt
PJ0328G2
Orange stripe and possibly a white stripe.
Flanges in line

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Re: Original 67-69 Camaro driveshafts - information requested about your car
« Reply #152 on: December 25, 2015, 07:06:31 PM »
67
NOR
05A
L78
M20
50.5
U bolt
PJ0328G2
Orange stripe and possibly a white stripe.
Flanges in line

Thanks for the information!

Any chance there could be more than 2 stripes?
Bryon / 1968 Camaro SS 396 coupe - now old school 468 big block
1967 Camaro RS/SS 396 coupe L35/M40 - 4 generation family project
Looking for 68 Camaro with body # NOR 181016

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Re: Original 67-69 Camaro driveshafts - information requested about your car
« Reply #153 on: December 25, 2015, 07:10:22 PM »
Thank You Gary!  Sorry, I guess I must have forgotten to reply to this earlier.  Merry Christmas!  Glad the driveshaft turned out good.

Summarizing from my post to a different thread re my driveshaft (I had previously posted that I'd cleaned and painted my driveshaft long ago, but that driveshaft was from my Nomad, not the Z28..  thankfully!)..  So I found my original driveshaft and cleaned, measured it and photographed it.
http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?topic=14017.15

Car:   09C (late) '69 Z28 with 302, M20 and 3.73 posi rear gear (all original to the car) owned since 1976, not driven since 1980.

Drive shaft length:  49-5/8" from U-joint center to U-joint center.

Paint stripes:   Orange and White stripes at the 11-13" mark from the Yoke end; yellow splash around 10" along...

Bryon / 1968 Camaro SS 396 coupe - now old school 468 big block
1967 Camaro RS/SS 396 coupe L35/M40 - 4 generation family project
Looking for 68 Camaro with body # NOR 181016

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Re: Original 67-69 Camaro driveshafts - information requested about your car
« Reply #154 on: December 26, 2015, 07:48:25 PM »
BC,

Looks likes only two stripes but it's real hard to tell for sure. I can try to post some pics for you.

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« Reply #155 on: December 27, 2015, 07:33:02 PM »
Sounds good. Thanks!

Oh and you can call me Bryon if you want. 😀
Bryon / 1968 Camaro SS 396 coupe - now old school 468 big block
1967 Camaro RS/SS 396 coupe L35/M40 - 4 generation family project
Looking for 68 Camaro with body # NOR 181016

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« Reply #156 on: December 27, 2015, 10:14:51 PM »
lol..  Ok BC..

   

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« Reply #157 on: December 30, 2015, 10:41:50 PM »
No problem. I have been called a lot worse. :)
Bryon / 1968 Camaro SS 396 coupe - now old school 468 big block
1967 Camaro RS/SS 396 coupe L35/M40 - 4 generation family project
Looking for 68 Camaro with body # NOR 181016

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Re: Original 67-69 Camaro driveshafts - information requested about your car
« Reply #158 on: January 02, 2016, 07:10:37 PM »
Just recently at the MCACN show I had lunch with one of my Cleveland Chevelle car buddies and his friend. In talking with them I found out they both worked at the Chevrolet plant in Parma Ohio back in the mid to late 60's. My buddy is about 68 ish now.
 They said they were both involved with drive shaft's and balancing, they made shafts for more than several Chevrolets'.
I specifically ask if they knew anything about the strips, they explained that when doing the code stripes, and while the shaft was still in the ballancing fixture,  the guy might hold several paint brushes at a time while the shaft turned in the fixture.
 So the one reason to post all this, they both indicated to me that one the the 3 strips was a shift code. If it was consistent, who knows ? And if not, that may explain why you'll see only two stipes at times.

Mike
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Re: Original 67-69 Camaro driveshafts - information requested about your car
« Reply #159 on: January 06, 2016, 08:58:30 PM »
Bryon,

Finally got a picture of my driveshaft.

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« Reply #160 on: January 06, 2016, 10:18:20 PM »
Thank you!
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Re: Original 67-69 Camaro driveshafts - information requested about your car
« Reply #161 on: January 27, 2016, 02:33:32 AM »
Here's the driveshaft out of my 69 Z.

 

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« Reply #162 on: January 30, 2016, 02:07:09 PM »
I wanted to add a little more info while doing the de-rusting process.

Casting numbers







Paint markings from yoke side down - Orange  Green  White





Some type of green dab of paint below the stipes.  Will know more once rust conversion is finished.


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« Reply #163 on: January 30, 2016, 09:14:58 PM »
Still soaking but I am starting to see the paint stripes better and better..  Also looks like whoever it was doing the painting grabbed it while it was still wet.






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« Reply #164 on: January 31, 2016, 02:13:04 AM »
Thanks Darrell. I was expecting three stripes for an L78.  :)
Bryon / 1968 Camaro SS 396 coupe - now old school 468 big block
1967 Camaro RS/SS 396 coupe L35/M40 - 4 generation family project
Looking for 68 Camaro with body # NOR 181016