Carl :
Piggott's TR2/3/3A book shows the cast pieces painted gloss black. And,
on my 59 TR3A, there were some traces of black paint left on the
wishbones and vertical link.
I tried to avoid painting any machined surfaces, but I don't see
anywhere that I believe a coat of paint would hurt. If you get it on
the threads, the nuts might be a little hard to get on ...
Randall
59 TR3A "daily driver wanna be"
CarlSereda@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On the TR4 recently dismantled all front suspension parts as you recall-all
> four front lower arm 'bush bores' are worn through and oblongigated-but let's
> move on...
>
> Does anyone know if all the suspension parts are supposed to be painted all
> black? It seems, after scraping, gasolining, and wirebrushing 35 years of
> junk off, that the 'pressed' suspension parts are still pretty well painted
> black but the 'cast' pieces, ie; upper fulcrum pin, vertical link, mounting
> plate for caliper, tie rod lever, ball joints, lower wishbone arms, are all
> unfinished raw cast metal...and not bad as far as rust goes-really minimal if
> any.
>
> Is that right? no paint on the 'cast parts' and then black paint on the
> 'pressed parts'?
>
> Should I paint everything? If the castings didn't rust by now seems I
> shouldn't paint those pieces (besides-some fit together critically where
> paint would seem to interfere).
>
> Opinions?
> The Workshop Manual in 'black and white' is hard to tell what was done
> originally but I do have some 'assemblers' paint slashes in yellow and white
> seemingly right on the bare metal castings near where the arms meet the
> trunnions...(probably all those shims)
> And is this the kind of thing Bill Piggott would show in Original TR books?
> Carl
> '64 TR4 since '74 ...and restoring and restoring...
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