62 rear sway bar bracketry

[Mike M.]

up till now, i believed the rear sway bar and its bracketry was painted semi-gloss black but this am i was glass beading the brackets and they were at one time cad plated(gold). not sure if they were installed raw, cad plated or covered with black-out .Perhaps bubba cad plated these. judging manual doesn't address the finish on these parts. anybody know ? mike

[Dennis C.]

Re: 62 rear sway bar bracketry

up till now, i believed the rear sway bar and its bracketry was painted semi-gloss black but this am i was glass beading the brackets and they were at one time cad plated(gold). not sure if they were installed raw, cad plated or covered with black-out .Perhaps bubba cad plated these. judging manual doesn't address the finish on these parts. anybody know ? mike

Mike,

A while back I asked a similar question, but didn't receive a reply. My car was missing the rear sway bar and brackets when I got it (the car was in pieces). I ended up ordering repo parts.

Some of the brackets came painted semi-gloss black and some of them came with a phosphate finish - for lack of a better description. When I received the sway bar it was a very light gray color. I am not sure what the finish was, not really cad plated and not galvanized.

After looking at some cars, I ended up painting everything black.

Maybe the sway bar is a reproduction bar?

Dennis