Re: [Chrysler300] Digest Number 15

[Johan Andersson <JOHAN.300@xxxx>]

Hello everyone over there.

I have my stickers the "crazy way" , meaning that I can see one of
them but nearly not the other one. I don't know if the cleaners are repainted
but maybe Dave (Schwandt) know. I don't think they are. The stickers looks very old.
If anyone want a picture of them from different sides, just tell me
and I'll be glad to send them to you from my digital camera, no problems.....

Best regards.... Johan 300-G conv.

RAKFAR@xxxx skrev:

> In a message dated 9/2/2001 2:57:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> << Any one have an ideas as to the corect placement of the decals on the F
> air cleaners.
>
> Dave Schwandt >>
>
> Hi Dave--
>
> This is an excellent question, and addresses the most common
> mistake I have seen on 300F's. There is even a certain expensively restored
> 300F convertible belonging to a well-known TV star that has it wrong!
>
> If you open the hood of a 300F and see both air cleaner stickers
> facing forward (let's call this the "six-o'clock position, looking from
> above), while appearing logical, this is DEAD WRONG. Since the F's two air
> cleaners are identical, but are mounted asymetrically (being rotated
> differently), the only way to get both stickers to face forward is to place
> each sticker on a different place on each air cleaner, and then not mix up
> the left one and the right one. This is NOT how Chrysler did it.
>
> Instead, as is more logical for production operations, ALL
> stickers were placed on all air cleaners in the same location, BEFORE the air
> cleaners were placed on the engine. As a result, left and right air cleaners
> are EXACTLY the same, and more importantly, when placed on the engine, one
> side (the driver's side) appears to face nearly BACKWARDS! Nearly all
> restorers get this wrong.
>
> When viewed from the front, the passenger-side sticker should be
> in the seven or seven-thirty position (if six o'clock is exactly to the front
> of the car), and the driver's side sticker should be about ten or eleven
> o'clock (which seems backwards). As a result, swapping air cleaners from side
> to side will make no difference; the stickers will remain in the same
> relative position! Of course, make sure you have oriented the air cleaner
> "dents" properly (passenger side "dent" at about ten o'clock to clear small
> vacuum pot, etc.) first.
>
> Concours judges (and entrants) please take note.
>
> 300F'ly,
>
> Roger Karlson
>
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