12/16/09

Soaked the original front coil springs, appears that they were not painted. When I rinsed them off after soaking, there was no sign of black paint anywhere. Jeff Speegle mentioned that in an interview with an ex-San Jose plant worker, they made a comment about "phosphate" coil springs. I will most likely refinish them in manganese phosphate. When I cleaned the springs for the first time, I did find a single brown stripe on each of them, which was documented previously here on the blog.