Thursday, July 9, 2015

Primed Springs & Undercoated Tub Plus Wheel Numbers (08/12/2014)

I went to the paint store yesterday and purchased four rattle cans of the leftover primer; I still have a lot left over. I used two of the rattle cans to touch up missed spots on several of the components and to prime the springs. The picture below shows the primed springs.


Then I purchased a couple of rattle cans of (3M rubberized) undercoating from Auto Zone and sprayed the bottom of the tub. The results are shown below.


While touching up the primer on the wheels I discovered numbers stamped in the rims. You may remember that I mentioned in a previous post that one of the wheel rims was so misshapened (for lack of a better word) that it needed to be replaced. It was and its ID is:
     "S2 01 15 13 0308731 DOT 16X4.5ET EWUSA.129"
which means it was probably manufactured on January 15, 2013. The rest of the numbers mean other unknown (to me) things. These numbers were on the outside of the rim, which means that they can be read while the tire is on the rim.

The following ID (on the inside) of the original wheel rim is
     "2 KE LS EY CANADA 16 X 450 E0 1 28"
and around the outside of the valve hole is "1 28".

So we have one rim made in Canada, the other USA. The size is 16" in diameter by 4.5 inches wide. And I wonder if Kelsey is the same Kelsey as in Kelsey-Hayes (after-market?) wheels made for the '30s V8 Fords.

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