ahhh now I see, they originally were supposed to have that cutout to keep heat away from the brake lines. I have seen them both ways from the factory and was once told by the manager of the dealership that they went cutout =out towards frame.
the majority of cars we saw had them facing in towards the drive shaft though and we were told to change the cutout side if they hit the brake lines (or were closer than 1 inch) when we shook the pipes to check for tightness. I hated winter time, it sucked doing this since all the road muck would fall in your face when you shook the pipes.
B- bodies also had the cutout but only for 4 doors for some reason and they went IN. I know that most 67 cars did not have any cutouts on the muffler but big block Chargers had a piece of L shaped metal on the same corner that the brake line bend was.
I did exhaust (lots and lots of them),shocks, short block builds and transmission R&R only (another guy rebuilt the transmissions) I was too slow rebuilding the transmissions so I was just "grunt the mule" for the trans guys putting them back in.
If I got 5 exhaust jobs done in a day I would get an extra 5 bucks in my check for every day I did that.
as for the paint daubs
the paint markings were something the dealer would do. that's to make sure we tightened up all the nuts and sealed the system. That was every car that came in,you would be shocked on how many cars had just 1 nut tightened on the exhaust. now it's called dealer prep or some such thing. we caught hell if we missed anything.
I saw the factory (jefferson assembly) putting the exhaust from the Y pipe at the engine to the muffler if it was in front of the axle in while it was in one piece. it was upside down in a jig and then the over the axle pipe was installed and hung. took 2 people to do that. 1 holding and one bolting it up then swapping places so they didn't do the same thing each time. (still looked sucky to do):D
that sure brings up some pretty good memories. I had lots of fun until they changed owners. Then it was money ,money, cut costs, do more and nope I'm not paying you more for doing it. I left after that.[/QUOTE
Thank you so much for the information. Your information is so valuable to me during the restoration. Do you remember what finsj the front and rear brake drums had? Also if the steering linkage had any paint marks?
I can't remember why what type of fins or not went on the brake drums. I know in 65-67 most of the 9" had no fins at all on the front (some had springs wrapped around the drum) and for the 10's some of them had a bell shape a few had fins and mostly on the rear high performance cars got them all the way around or got disc up front and bigger rear drums . but for the life of me I can't remember why.
paint markings on the front steering were done at the factory and we never looked real close at them other than noticing if it was GT power steering the pitman arm had an orange daub in the end of the flat part going into the draglink, arm facing UP towards the engine compartment. sometimes it dripped- slopped over to the draglink itself. NEVER did see it on a 270 or lower trim type car only on GT's with power steering. the problem with that was it was the EXACT same gearbox that went into all the power steering cars and not ALL the GT's had the paint daub. it could have been a shift marking or a line marking to let someone know what shift/line ran the sub assembly. sorry I coud not be of more help.
Now ask me about any glass from ma mopar from 1972-2003 and I can help (other than I NEVER, Ever want to lift another 64-66 barracuda real window (called a "backlight DUH!:banghead: and yeah we were still mkaing all the glass for the early A's as late as july 1973)
heavy and Awkward as all get out. A b$tch to break even as soon as they come out of the quenches to cool down. we usually had to center punch em (heck a ball peen hammer would hardly break them if you didn't use all your strength and whack them on the edge)to get them to break. tough buggers they were.
BTW the car looks AWESOME.
