Powdercoating trailing arms, places to avoid? Options

[3liter914-6]

Ok, so thanks to you guys I've got two trailing arms lying on my garage floor. I figure since I've got them out and am installing the needle bearings and 911 e-brake, I might as well get the whole dealio powdercoated.

What I'm wondering is besides threads and bearing surfaces, the usual suspects, are there other places to mask off? I'm thinking if I powdercoat the surfaces of the alignment shim mount, that's going to throw things off, right? So should I just clean that piece up and not coat it, or just go ahead and do it and adjust with shims afterwards. No matter what, even if I put it back together with just new bushings, I'm going to have to mess around with the shims, right?

Thanks for any help,

Adam

[3liter914-6]

the only real reason to press the tubes in before hand is to lesson the chance of messing up your new pretty parts

(and if by some odd and very, very rare instance you screw up and damage the trailing arm during the install*)

*only heard of one person doing this..me !!! , hahahahaha

Ah, good point. The press might not be so friendly to my freshly powdercoated arms.

Thanks,

Adam