engine color

[snuffy]

The intake manifold on my early 151 is red. Also the cover over the thermostat is red. I always assumed that it had been "bubbarized", but before I paint these two items I got to wondering if they were supposed to be that color????

Your advice will be appreciated.

Snuffy

[moose53]

Only if it was originally owned by Bob Amon... Mutt engines were predominently either Satin Black or OD Green, with a few parts left unpainted, like the stainless steel manifold. No parts originally came in Red...

Jim

[snuffy]

I appreciate the help. That's what I expected, but I wanted to be sure. And you told me something I REALLY didn't know.....the intake is stainless steel. I'll get that red paint off and leave it unpainted!

You know, I just remembered....when I first got this Mutt the valve cover looked like it was stainless. It was unpainted and bright metal????

Thanks again,
Mike

[moose53]

the valve cover should be painted... same color as the engine block. If its something other than stamped metal then it too is a bubba piece. Check out Mr. Dibbles posts, his engine is pretty much perfect, and should answer most questions you might have of how it should look.

Jim

[k8icu]

I have taken engines right out of M151A2s that were at DRMO that had the dipstick painted red and the oil fill cap on the valve cover painted red. Never seen a red manifold though. In the early 90s the OHARNG switched over from 151s to M998s and the DRMO in Columbus wholesaled jeeps off in lots of like 800 at a time. The winning bidder had like 30 days to tear them up and either crsuh or mutillate the body. So I was able to get with a few other mutt owners at the time and we paid the guy like $50.00 each and we each got a 151A2 to tear up. I got all the parts I needed to put the A2 I was building at the time back together. Plus my buddies got spare parts for their jeeps. It was a win win for all because we got parts for cheep and the guy who had 800 or so jeeps to tear up in 30 days got a few jeeps taken care of that all he had to do is crush the bodys.

[Cobra5]

I'm restoring my A-2 and included the engine as well in the process. I chosen to paint my engine black since I'm going with the 383 color. Also it breaks up the green in the engine bay.

[moose53]

if you found any that had the red dipstick and filler cap that was a old motor pool guy thinking back to the way it was in the 1950's. The practise ended before mutts were put in service.

Jim

[k8icu]

Well seeing that the mutts belonged to the Ohio National Guard I knew a few motorpool SGTs who started off as motorpool PVTs from the 50ths so it is possible some of them were carring on the tradition. I wouldn't post it if I hadn't seen it with both eyes...

[moose53]

oh I believe you all right, lol nothing is beyond the realm of the possible when you're talking about mutts!

Jim