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Mike Shally

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Color coded transmission mount
« on: September 07, 2020, 12:06:17 PM »
I have observed the transmission mount and transmission cross member may have been color coded, see photos.
Can anyone else provide additional input on this topic?
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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2020, 12:59:56 PM »
I have observed the transmission mount and transmission cross member may have been color coded, see photos.
Can anyone else provide additional input on this topic?
I have not seen a color code on the SB metal trans mount of 67-70 on the many I have seen . I typically see the SB trans rubber mount with yellow paint mark . I have seen the blue and yellow on service parts too . Blue is in the extreme minority in that context too . FYI the stenciled part number pictured on the mount is typical of a service part not a assemblyline part. 
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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2020, 03:06:24 PM »
The photo of the transmission mount is on a early GT350 built in Nov 67 and I was hoping to find an explanation for the blue paint, I also agree the mount is a service replacement part.
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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2020, 07:00:59 PM »
Agree that the metal transmission cross brace/bracket had no paint identifier.

Mike does your transmission mount have a Ford engineering number on it?

Do have other examples big and small block 4 speeds with green or blue marks I've seen (as well as the yellows)  Can't be sure which are possible replacements or originals. Have yellow service replacement examples (with the same stamped part number style as yours) also

Sorry to add to the confusion - just sharing

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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2020, 07:28:32 PM »
Agree that the metal transmission cross brace/bracket had no paint identifier.

Mike does your transmission mount have a Ford engineering number on it?

Do have other examples big and small block 4 speeds with green or blue marks I've seen (as well as the yellows)  Can't be sure which are possible replacements or originals. Have yellow service replacement examples (with the same stamped part number style as yours) also

Sorry to add to the confusion - just sharing
As long as you are adding to the confusing  ;) ;D  Now I don't feel bad in adding that I typically see red on BB rubber trans mounts.
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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2020, 08:25:03 PM »
Just one of the subjects where the evidence so far has not provided a clear or definite pattern

Would have been great if we had gotten engineering numbers with the marks or had a way to determine which had been replaced
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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2020, 09:12:58 PM »
69 big block c9za red  70 bigblock green dooa 71 bigblock d1za orange  brushed painted on 1 side only

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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2020, 09:28:45 PM »
C8 also red

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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2020, 09:33:42 PM »
C8 also red

C8 for which application or part number?

Have two C8ZZ *part number stamped service pieces) in yellow
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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2020, 09:37:15 PM »
The straight ones  both sides big  block without the center hump . I have seen red coded bigblock mounts with both c8za and c9za moulded in rubber

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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2020, 08:09:28 PM »
C8 also red

C8 for which application or part number?

Have two C8ZZ *part number stamped service pieces) in yellow
C8ZA  big block

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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2020, 11:25:54 AM »
+1 my 68.5 CJ original trans mount has red on it.
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Re: Color coded transmission mount
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2020, 06:14:33 PM »
Photos of KR 4428 transmission mount. 
Includes part number, engineering number and fomoco date code.
No paint on this car.