Power steering cap detail - Page 3

**Bill Pritchard** · #21 12-05-2009, 07:01 AM

Phil,

Regarding that survivor 26K mile 69 Chevelle... What plant was it built at?

I ask because my Chevelle was built 1B at Kansas City, and it has the plastic cap.

**Woj** · #22 12-05-2009, 03:14 PM

Bill,

The Chevelle is a Baltimore car.

Phil Woj.

al8apex · #23 12-05-2009, 08:08 PM

and that picture clearly shows it WAS painted ...

al8apex · #24 12-05-2009, 09:00 PM

the cap WAS painted, the outer portions of the paint had come off due to the leakage of the PS fluid

**Bill Rose** · #25 12-06-2009, 01:55 AM

After looking at all the pictures of original caps with black paint, they all have paint only left in the center/top of the caps. It seems like the caps were plated like the radiator caps, with nickel plating? Then the paint came off very easily, where your hand/fingers touched the cap to remove it.
Seems like the painting was an after thought. Maybe just a way to paint the pump, without getting paint inside the pump. I guess if you want the paint to stick for any period of time, it should be blasted first.

x Baldwin Motion · #26 12-06-2009, 04:57 AM

here is my 75000 mile original 69 Nova pump, removed tonight.

**njsteve** · #27 12-12-2009, 09:49 PM

Check out the cap on the 69 427 Caprice - still has most of the paint on it.

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show...c=1#Post433273

**Bill Pritchard** · #28 12-13-2009, 04:05 AM

Uhhh, Counselor....that Caprice is a 67, not a 69

**njsteve** · #29 12-13-2009, 05:11 AM

DOH! Sorry about the typo. My keyboard is missing the seven key.

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