P.S. box painted??

Is the power steering box on my 69 lynch rd RR
supposed to be painted black or natural??

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Anyone ???

black

Natural

Most everyone I have seen have been natural. The only one that I have seen black Is on my 70 charger st. louis bulid august of 69 but it is a factory show car. That might have something to do with it. I would say natural.

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I have a 1969 Charger R/T in the shop - SBD is July 4th 1969 and it was painted gloss black (not sure what plant)

Date on the box

I used to believe they were natural but now I believe they should be Black.
I base this on friends car's that were restored by high end restoration shops and research over the years.

Did mine Black in my 69 and when mine returns from Steer and Gear I'll paint it Black for my 70 GTX.
Ron.

They look nice in Natural powdercoat, but black is correct. I have a NOS unit in my 69 Convertible RR and it is black.

You'll never convince me on either.I have two cars both with the original box and they are both natural cast.

I have always gone black, now I can't go back!

I just had a conversation with my dad. He hired on at Chrysler in September 1965 at the Shadeland Avenue Plant in Indianapolis Indiana. His only job until April 1969 was testing power steering gearboxes for all the Chrysler products. After the test was done, he would hang the box from an overhead conveyor that went through a paint booth where they all got painted black. According to him, this was the way the line was until sometime in the early '70's when the EPA regulations made it too expensive to paint them. There were times when an issue might arise in the plant where processes were temporarily changed due to breakdowns. A possibility exists that if the paint booth had an issue that the paint process was skipped, but according to him, they had a way to place them offline until the line was going again.
There are obviously original untouched cars that have painted and unpainted boxes, so the best advice is to study the one on your car before restoration.

Dave,
What a wealth of information your dad could be to this board! Anyway, I agree most, if not all, were black. My thought is that like the sway bars & leaf springs, the boxes had an oily film on them that caused the paint to come off very prematurely-leading to the misconception they were bare metal. Having said that, I will never say never to a Mopar. I'm sure some got through without paint by a lazy employee.

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I just had a conversation with my dad. He hired on at Chrysler in September 1965 at the Shadeland Avenue Plant in Indianapolis Indiana. His only job until April 1969 was testing power steering gearboxes for all the Chrysler products. After the test was done, he would hang the box from an overhead conveyor that went through a paint booth where they all got painted black. According to him, this was the way the line was until sometime in the early '70's when the EPA regulations made it too expensive to paint them. There were times when an issue might arise in the plant where processes were temporarily changed due to breakdowns. A possibility exists that if the paint booth had an issue that the paint process was skipped, but according to him, they had a way to place them offline until the line was going again.
There are obviously original untouched cars that have painted and unpainted boxes, so the best advice is to study the one on your car before restoration.

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