Rear wheel well undercoating

[John H.]

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I think we are talking about two different plates. The body mount cover plate is what I say has a little undercoat on the side.

Keith -

The rectangular cover plate with the four screws for access to the #3 body mount bolt shouldn't have any undercoat on it; that plate and screws were installed many hours after the undercoat was applied.

[Keith L.]

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Well maybe we are talking about 3 different plates. I'm talking about #4 body mount as seen in the first pic I posted. There is no undercoating anywhere on my car except the rear of the wheelhousings.
After rereading all post I see where I misunderstood what plate the OP was talking about. My Mistake.

[Paul O.]

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Keith

The plate Kurt was asking about is the Seat-belt Shoulder Harness reinforcement plate when looking straight into the wheel well it would be just fwd of the center of the opening up high. You can see it in Alan's photo just above the frame.

Paul 18046

[Dave S.]

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KeithThe plate Kurt was asking about is the Seat-belt Shoulder Harness reinforcement plate when looking straight into the wheel well it would be just fwd of the center of the opening up high. You can see it in Alan's photo just above the frame.Paul 18046

As Paul mentioned this has been a subject of discussion on the 70-72 re-write team. Here are two photos. First is from a July built 1970 and second is from a July built 1971. Both are 5 star Bowtie cars so they should pass the smell test. It certainally looks like there was an effort to undercoat this plate.

[John H.]

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]37484[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]37485[/ATTACH]As Paul mentioned this has been a subject of discussion on the 70-72 re-write team. Here are two photos. First is from a July built 1970 and second is from a July built 1971. Both are 5 star Bowtie cars so they should pass the smell test. It certainally looks like there was an effort to undercoat this plate.

Dave -

That plate was installed in the Body Shop from '66-up, so I'd expect to see undercoat (sound deadener) on it.

[Dave S.]

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Dave -

That plate was installed in the Body Shop from '66-up, so I'd expect to see undercoat (sound deadener) on it.

John,
Thanks. The other part of the question was did the plate get blackout and/or undercoating seeing as it is at the top of the wheel well. We know undercoating was mostly applied to the rear of the wheel wells and not so much at the top and front. It appears that there was an effort to undercoat the plate and it was not just random. It also appears that this area recieved blackout also.

[John H.]

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John,
Thanks. The other part of the question was did the plate get blackout and/or undercoating seeing as it is at the top of the wheel well. We know undercoating was mostly applied to the rear of the wheel wells and not so much at the top and front. It appears that there was an effort to undercoat the plate and it was not just random. It also appears that this area recieved blackout also.

Dave -

I can't speak to the C3's, but on the midyears, the blackout and sound deadener application areas showed a lot of variation in terms of the pattern and coverage; it certainly wasn't a carefully-controlled application process.

[Chuck S.]

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On my late 70, coverage is continuous on both reinforcement plate and the body.

Coverage extends pretty much from front to rear on the body arc just above the frame rail. Some, but limited coverage on the flat portion of the body (and plate) immediately above the frame rail (it probably depended on the spray band width, vertical starting point and/or number of passes). Coverage extends about 6-7" up onto inside surface of the wheel well on the driver side, and only about 2" up on the passenger side. The two sides likely done by two different people.

John's right for C3s too...it wasn't carefully controlled even on the same car

[Keith L.]

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Now that I'm on the same page as everyone there is no under coating on mine. It's all in the rear from the #4mount back. A22 1970

[Keith L.]

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[Kurt G.]

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Thanks Keith. These photos hit the nail on the head. Mine was clean also and just wanted to make sure since I took 5 days to remove all the under coating paid for by the original owner to make my life miserable