Red tags on frame?

[454cid]

I wouldn't call it red, but here it is.

Edit: looking back at other's pictures, I see they are colored..... maybe I should scrub mine, to see what I can see.

 

[618 Syndicate]

@MrPink may be able to shed some light on this...

 

[Erin]

Mine has SAF. With the body lift I barely have to bend over to see it.

 

[MrPink]

They are used to denote what parts, that a specific frame is to get if I remember correctly. I can ask tomorrow while I am working, off the top of my head I can't remember.

 

[Z71Hobbs]

I'd guess the tags are the Broadcast Code..... easy/quick identification for in-plant use, rather than a long part number.

This was the best i could determine. They are very specific to year, body type, c or k.
I’ve been trying to find the correct ones for my 96 k1500, and I thought I had it narrowed down to sfj as that is all I could find for 96 k1500 ecsb. But another guy I found has sfk on his 96k1500 6.5

 

[Caman96]

I found this quote online: “That tag is was used by the assembly line to identify the application for a particular frame. Usually they are on upside down as that is how the frames were stacked on the pallets”.
Mine were upside down!

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

I wouldn't call it red, but here it is.

Edit: looking back at other's pictures, I see they are colored..... maybe I should scrub mine, to see what I can see.

Yours looks possibly yellow. Color is probably important as well as letter codes, for easy identification on the assembly line

 

[454cid]

Yours looks possibly yellow. Color is probably important as well as letter codes, for easy identification on the assembly line

Yes, I forgot about color codes..... driveshafts have color codes on the tubes, for that reason.

You've convinced me..... I'll clean the tag. Maybe you and I will start the newest GMT-400 trend, cleaned and armor-alled frame tags

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Yes, I forgot about color codes..... driveshafts have color codes on the tubes, for that reason.

You've convinced me..... I'll clean the tag. Maybe you and I will start the newest GMT-400 trend, cleaned and armor-alled frame tags

I haven't looked under the Burb close enough to see if it has these. Guess I should, to see what they may be?

 

[454cid]

I haven't looked under the Burb close enough to see if it has these. Guess I should, to see what they may be?

Well, unfortunetly I broke mine. I sprayed it with some bathrrom cleaner that wasn't going to take the undercoating off, and decided to take it off the frame. It looked like it just popped into a hole, so I put a 3/8" extention on the back side of it and hit it with a rubber hammer. It came right off, but it also broke. It is yellow, as the backside is relatively clean. I don't know how you could see that, as the front is almost completely black after spraying cleaner on it and scrubbing it with a nylon brush. It's soaking in some degreaser that will hopefully remove the undercoating. I'm still hoping I can figure out some way to put it back on.