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Does anyone know what type of coating the hose clamps have? I have a 93 and when I removed some hoses I scratched up the clamps. Are they painted or is this a special coating of some type?
My ‘96 clamps are Stainless steel with no coating. If you bought your vette used some retailers spray the engine compartment with a high gloss coating to make it look nice. This leaves behind a coating on everything that can just be cleaned off the clamps.
I bought mine from an individual and the clamps are OEM clamps. They are a dull black and I didn't have the correct tool to take them off and they are all scratched up. I thought about painting them a flat black but was wondering what the original coating is. Are your clamps the constant-tension OEM or the worm drive type?
My apologies, I just went out to take a look. The upper hose and air filter feed tube are stainless so I assumed they all were ( insert assume saying here🤪.
The lower hose and heater hoses are the black anodized.
Sorry to say, not sure how to repair scratching without replacing.
these are all factory clamps from ‘96
Last edited by jmeyer58; Mar 26, 2020 at 01:08 PM.
Reason: Correction
Thanks for looking! So, you think they are anodized, I couldn't tell, I thought they might have been painted but I doubt paint would hold up as long as anodize has. I only need two small ones so no problem buying those, it's just finding them that's the problem.
Anodized is just a guess because of the durability. Could be some sort of black oxide like the body screws used to hold in inner fenders to the car? I just am not sure. Good Luck and let me know if you find OE style clamps.
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