Significance of light blue engine block?

Kaiser

Interesting! I think it had one rebuild back in the 1970's. My uncle who had owned it since the late 1960's said when he rebuilt the engine, he didn't bother repainting it, so when I tore it down years ago, I just painted it a color very close to the teal/blue that it was when I got it!

ndnchf wrote: This talk of light blue makes me wonder about mine. The jeep is a 48, but the motor is 49 or 50.

FWIW, Sears remanufactured jeep engines were about that color at least in the early 70's.
I bought one after my original (?) engine started rod knocking. It was a teal blue color very similar to yours. I still run the same engine today.

SE Kansas 46 CJ-2A wrote: [QUOTE=ndnchf] FWIW, Sears remanufactured jeep engines were about that color at least in the early 70's.

For what it's worth, in addition to selling these they also sold Allstate cars which was a rebadged Kaiser-Willys Henry J.....that in itself should explain alot of the blue replacements.

The cars were sold i(only) in '52-'53 so try to save one when you find it in the weeds.

Everything on my engine is blue like above, except the head which looks to have been swapped.

IRQVET wrote: Sears sold L-heads, no kidding?

AND complete cars with L-heads already installed.

the engine I have was painted the light blue / teal or what I found as a close match was International Harvester Sky blue, this I think was linked to being rebuilt or modified at factory up in Canada.now it didn't look this clean but places behind or covered with oil/grease the paint was good.

  Guys - in the 40’s and 50’s, and even into the 60’s, there was no such thing as a color called “teal”. I think that’s a product of the 70’s, or even the 80’s.