[s-cars] RE: Stebro

[Tom Green]

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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 12:32:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] RE:  Stebro
To: kirby.a.smith at verizon.net
Cc: //Scar //Scar list <s-car-list at audifans.com>
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--- Kirby Smith <kirby.a.smith at verizon.net> wrote:
Teddy:

Would you clarify... are they hot dip galvanized after welding, or is
the sheet metal galvanized before forming?

that i don't know.  but if they were hot dip galvanized, wouldn't they
be galvanized on both sides?

i do know the sheetmetal has been galvanized at least on one side for
quite some time.  even my '87 mustang has galvanized metal on the 
outside.
i can tell because it forms a yellowish-whitish residue when i weld it.

-teddy

Teddy,
I would think there is more chance that the body panels were protected 
with zinc chromate primer than galvanizing at the Ford plant in '86.  
You can be sure they were not dipping entire bodies after welding.  I 
wasn't there when they built your Mustang, but that's my recollection 
of the industry at that time.

Tom