[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Yes.

Oldsmobile (Lansing Michigan) shown below, but this was typical for Chevrolet passenger car and trucks, as well as Buick/Olds/Pontiac.

For full frame vehicles is was done immediately before body drop. The "chassis black", a super watery cheap almost not worthy to be called paint, was drizzled haphazardly in the general direction of the frame, coating the convenient surfaces of front A arms, rear suspension components, and portions of the dif and axle tubes.

K

One other tidbit from the Olds photo: if you look carefully you can see the brake master cylinder slaved in roughly its final location; by this point in the process the brake system has been completely assembled, evacuated of all air and filled with fluid (and any required repairs performed), tested and bought off as good.

I always enjoyed looking at the assembly process and noting how different the order was from what you or I would do in our own garage.

Flint Assembly motor set operation shown below.

K