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Re: Original 340 Owners = Distributor Hold Down Survey
[Re: RoadRunnerJD]
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10/26/13 12:19 AM
10/26/13 12:19 AM
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Spokane Washington
ScottSmith_Harms
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I would bet the S.O.P. for the distributor and hold down were to install after paint?
I'd agree with that, just doing a little research
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Re: Original 340 Owners = Distributor Hold Down Survey
[Re: mopar346]
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10/26/13 12:40 AM
10/26/13 12:40 AM
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ScottSmith_Harms
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You would think, but many cases of painted/oversprayed distributor bases on originals.
Which brings up the question of; was the engine paint touched up over the years or was the over spray original?
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Re: Original 340 Owners = Distributor Hold Down Survey
[Re: Rhinodart]
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10/26/13 12:49 AM
10/26/13 12:49 AM
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ScottSmith_Harms
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You know what car this is out of, but then again we figured out that it may have been touched-up after the carb fire...
Correct, it absolutely was touched up after the fire, the question is: Was that touch up paint or...?
The paint on the example I posted a pic of looks really original, but I didn't remove it myself so I can't really use it as an example.
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Re: Original 340 Owners = Distributor Hold Down Survey
[Re: mopar346]
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10/26/13 02:10 AM
10/26/13 02:10 AM
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ScottSmith_Harms
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Could that be from the heat shield and manifold blocking the paint since they were mounted before paint.
No, that pic is on the passenger side, there is no gasket or shield and the manifold isn't in the way, the drivers side shield doesn't shield that area either, both sides (bare areas) look the same. The attached pic is the same engine, I removed the exhaust manifold for the first time ever (and put every bolt back into it's exact original place when I reinstalled it). You can see the bare areas that the exhaust manifold masked.
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Re: Original 340 Owners = Distributor Hold Down Survey
[Re: ScottSmith_Harms]
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10/26/13 02:15 AM
10/26/13 02:15 AM
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kentj340
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My blue painted 69 340 had no blue paint on the clamp. But the clamp was black with what I thought was some kind of black plating or paint. The black did not seem to be grease or dirt. Anyhow it cleaned up recently with mild scrubbing to be copper plated steel, which totally surprised me. As the original owner, I never, ever saw copper plating, even though I worked on the points and timing every year or two in the 70s and early 80s. If there was no engine paint on the clamp, should the clamp have been noticeably copper plated? Or could it have arrived from the factory with black copper oxide on the copper plating? "Oxidizing (blackening, coloring) of a copper workpiece is commonly carried out by immersion of the part into a heated alkaline solution containing an oxidizing compound (e.g. sodium chlorite)." From: http://www.substech.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=black_copper_oxide_coating
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Re: Original 340 Owners = Distributor Hold Down Survey
[Re: ScottSmith_Harms]
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10/26/13 06:58 AM
10/26/13 06:58 AM
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gdonovan
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I had one that had been parked since the 70's and the base of the distributor and clamp were the same color as the engine.
"I think its got a hemi"
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