[s-cars] Re: S-CAR-List Digest, Vol 7, Issue 67 - was Stebro, now Galvanized bodies

[Larry C Leung]

As I recall, my friend's Ford Pick-up Tow Vehicle with the
galvanized paint adhesion recall was an '88. So, I wouldn't
be surprised that galvanizing was starting already at Ford
in '86. And, for the record, my '85 GTi was only partially
galvanized back then. Never rusted, only the fallen tree
took it out. 

LL - NY

> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:35:54 -0400
> From: Tom Green <trgreen at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] RE:  Stebro
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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
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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
>