Spring Perch, Original or Repro?

[Tom Wesenberg]

Look at the pictures and let me know what you think. Is it an original part, or a repro part? Thanks

http://www.ebay.com/itm/161235658040...#ht_177wt_1105

[jimvette59]

Looks to be an original but I wouldn't pay that kind of money For it. JMO

[Vanspeed]

Originally Posted by jimvette59

Looks to be an original but I wouldn't pay that kind of money For it. JMO

$8.00 is too much for you?? Wow, I would buy that all day long for that money. I sold a set on here last year for 45.00 that were in about the same condition.

[jw hash]

Tom

I think it looks like an early replacement. you need a picture of the end of threads. it looks like the end is rounded and does not have a centering hole in the end. I have a pair of NORS ones just like that.

[Tom Wesenberg]

I also think it looks like a repro part. It looks like the repro ones I bought for a customer 10 years ago. Here's a picture of my original perch with the green background. Notice the sharper edge at the end of the taper, and the thinner flange by the shock link ball.

[swo4rd]

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Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

I also think it looks like a repro part. It looks like the repro ones I bought for a customer 10 years ago. Here's a picture of my original perch with the green background. Notice the sharper edge at the end of the taper, and the thinner flange by the shock link ball.

Hi Tom...the proof is installing it in the wishbone/axle, and seeing how the bolt ends up in relationship to the cotter key hole. I found that some repros will not fit. I want to say that in the 60's give or take about ten years and even up until 1998, there were a lot of reproduction parts being cast for various parts houses in Korea, Japan and China. I recall in particular, front motor mounts that were just scrap. The key is forging...and it looks like the eBay part is not.

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[swo4rd]

"forged" that is.