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Started by Jack4159, August 13, 2021, 09:36:25 AM

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Steve Z

   Jeff, Can you elaborate as to what a specific color would refer too? Thanks

J_Speegle

Quote from: Steve Z on August 23, 2021, 09:01:10 PM
   Jeff, Can you elaborate as to what a specific color would refer too? Thanks

Specific colors have no "meaning" as fair as I can figure and have been told. They were likely just randomly chosen,  finalized and applied by the supplier. Believe the colors may have been chosen by Ford but can't be certain but on a few engineering drawings I've seen of drivelines sometimes the colors were included in those drawings

So bottom line is that each individual stripe color can not be used to decode the tube size, length or other details
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Bob Gaines

I think logically the combination of colors had to do with the specific makeup of the given driveshaft for the specific optioned car it was designed for. Maybe no meaning to Ford but the combination of colors possibly meant length and maybe the u joints and yokes to the mfg. Specific combinations of colors are seen consistently on specific optioned cars which seems to support the combination of colors had a build meaning. 
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J_Speegle

Quote from: Bob Gaines on August 23, 2021, 10:03:24 PM
I think logically the combination of colors had to do with the specific makeup of the given driveshaft for the specific optioned car it was designed for. Maybe no meaning to Ford but the combination of colors possibly meant length and maybe the u joints and yokes to the mfg. Specific combinations of colors are seen consistently on specific optioned cars which seems to support the combination of colors had a build meaning.

Just for discussion purposes and to share thoughts.

If the colors were related to a feature such as tube diameter, length and yoke size or type we would see the same color used on all of the 68 drivelines that used the same dia tubes.  I'm not seeing that.

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Bob Gaines

Quote from: J_Speegle on August 23, 2021, 11:11:29 PM
Quote from: Bob Gaines on August 23, 2021, 10:03:24 PM
I think logically the combination of colors had to do with the specific makeup of the given driveshaft for the specific optioned car it was designed for. Maybe no meaning to Ford but the combination of colors possibly meant length and maybe the u joints and yokes to the mfg. Specific combinations of colors are seen consistently on specific optioned cars which seems to support the combination of colors had a build meaning.

Just for discussion purposes and to share thoughts.

If the colors were related to a feature such as tube diameter, length and yoke size or type we would see the same color used on all of the 68 drivelines that used the same dia tubes.  I'm not seeing that.

Half way down the page

http://www.thecoralsnake.com/SUSPENSION.HTML
It is obvious we do not have all of the answers . Why would Ford go to the trouble of list specific colors on build sheets that correlate to specific variations of Shelby's. There are not too many high profile examples of Ford putting random coding on build sheets. And in this case it would be done many thousands of times. Random is not logical in this situation . It is hard to say what exactly they are for . But given Fords MO on the way they do things random is extremely unlikely. I think rather then labeling them random it would be more prudent to be categorized as  "waiting for more conclusive information".   
Bob Gaines,Shelby Enthusiast, Shelby Collector , Shelby Concours judge SAAC,MCA,Mid America Shelby