We are taking our 69 Z apart the driveshaft has a white stripe about 3/4 inches wide all the way down the middle will someone tell me why? I am hooked on this site thank for all the information
you guys gives Great job.

perhaps someone did this to see if the driveshaft
became "twisted",it would be easier to tell. graemlins/beers.gif

I can't recall for certain, but I think the original drive shafts are striped. I know I just had a new one built and a buddy of mine mentioned that it still needs to be striped. It is clear coated now and apparently for it to be 100% correct it now gets a stripe painted around the shaft. I will check into this a bit further and get back to you when I find out for certain.

[ 05-09-2004, 08:56 AM: Message edited by: hugger_sixty_nine ]

Caveman probably got it right. ID stripes went around the shaft, not the length of it.

Kurt is correct. They normally shipped the cars with 2 or three colored stripes around the shaft about 8-10 inches back from the yoke side of the shaft. Hope that helps. I was a bit foggy about the stripes and had to check.

What color stripes should be on a 69 350/300hp with an M20?

I have seen it done on old race cars

Jonesy,

I think it would be one Orange, one White.

-Mark.

Thanks Mark, I have to stripe mine up. I never imagined I would be doing that.

Hey, whatever floats your boat, right? :D

thanks for your help is the drive shaft black with a clear coat and what color is the stripes that goes around the shaft my car is a 69 z
white exterior @ white interior. .The white stripe that goes
all the way down the shaft is about 3/4 inches wide.

Original driveshafts were unpainted natural steel, and had no lengthwise stripe; drag-racers frequently added them for a quick visual check to see if it had twisted. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

thanks for your help

During the course of restoring my two automatic cars. I had found the original driveshaft stripes hidden under grease, dirt and sludge;

1968 396/325 TH400 (orange/green/pink)
with green daps on the tranny yoke (u-joint area)

1969 350/300 TH350 (orange/green/white)
with yellow daps on the tranny yoke (u-joint area)

8-10" aft of the tranny end of shaft, Shaft natural no paint, stripes irregular with inconsistant spacing. The 68 shaft had unpainted space between stripes of about 2-3 inches. The 69 shaft, the colored stripes were practically on top of each other.

Was interesting to reproduce.
Just wanted to add what I had found.

P.S. The 68 still had a paper tag stuck to the rear wheel brake drum, Yellow paper with bold black lettering underlined "PP". Matched the rear stamping in the pass side tube!

Jim graemlins/waving.gif

Jim,
The 69 is your LA 04C pacer, right?
Do you have pics of either driveshaft?

Thanks!
Kurt

[ 03-19-2004, 11:07 PM: Message edited by: Kurt S ]

Kurt,
Yes the pace car is correct.

I will mail you a scanned photo of the drive shaft. The yellow on the tranny yoke does not show very well in the scanned image.

Jim

Thanks Jim!