engine color

Fireguyfire, read this thread. Perhaps it´ll help you:

  http://www.thecj2apage.com/forums/engine-color_topic20883.html

Keep´em rolling!

I have it on pretty good authority that this is NOT an original paint scheme for an L-134 engine…

 

fireguyfire wrote: . . . . Is there any way to tell what the factory color was for the body and the rims from the data plates, like on a muscle car? Mine has 3 layers of color on it, and the base layer is yellow.

No, the VIN and the body tag are no help with the color.  You have to go by what you find on the tub.  Look for areas that either were not repainted such as under the grease on the transmission hump. Also, under the data tags and the welting you may find the original color.

The CJ2A History page states, that, "Michigan Yellow 2A’s came with 3 different wheel colors. Pasture Green with a Michigan Yellow stripe, Americar Black with a Wake Ivory stripe and Sunset Red with an Americar Black stripe."   Since you found yellow as the bottom color, my guess is that the tub was Michigan Yellow.

The engine was black from the factory.

Are you sure that the "light blue" is not gray, and that it is a CJ engine? Ford GPW ( wartime) engines were gray.    BW

My engine was rebuilt by the military and painted orange.  It had a rebuild tag on it, I need to see if it is still attached, that was also orange and had a bomb on it and said something about Aberdeen I think. 

The 804380 is the block casting number and indicates that it was a block cast in late 1952 or 1953 and used in CJ-3As as well as CJ-2A replacement blocks.  You can confirm that it was from a CJ-3A by looking for the engine number stamped on the flat boss in front of the head above the water pump.  A 3A engine number would begin with the prefix 3J followed by numbers.


Edited by samcj2a - 22 Mar. 2014 at 12:07am

Yes

njtool wrote: Athawk11, Thats awesome. Is that your engine? Does that paint job make it go faster?

I'm pretty sure this added a couple horsepower.     

This is my current 3A project. I'm putting this one together for my wife. She loves it.   I wanted to do something a little different while transitioning from the red engine to the black drive train.

Probably not appropriate in this thread, but thought it might make a few guys smile. Just trying to have a little fun.

Tim