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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 70 copo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> What I will say is that the obliteration marks are consistent with a known manufacturing plant correction technique as recalled to me by the spring and axle line workers. It is troubling that segments in hobby keep calling most everything with a stamp deviation that does not fit a narrow interpretation fake. </div></div>

You make a good point Phil. With as many inspections that I do every year it has almost gone the other way. When the stamps look too perfect I start to worry. I wrote off a CRV 3.31 rearend as being a restamp about 2 years ago and actually bought it and put it into my inventory. I thought it was fake as you could clearly see that the face had been hastily ground off and restamped in the stamp area of the axle tube. Fast forward 2 years and I get another LS6 in the shop. While inspecting it I see the same exact thing while forgetting about the other rearend. I was going to write it off as a restamp as well but something kept nagging me. I finally remembered the other rearend and bingo, almost identical and within 5 days of the car in the shop. I conferred with Chris White who also confirmed that he felt it was real. Never say never! This is also why documenting these types of anomalies are so important.