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General Category => Willys Forum => Topic started by: kfnut on June 09, 2010, 06:39:43 AM

Title: 48 jeepster engine color
Post by: kfnut on June 09, 2010, 06:39:43 AM

What should the engine color be for a 48 Jeepster ?

Title: Re: 48 jeepster engine color
Post by: joefrazer on June 09, 2010, 04:05:09 PM

The correct color has been debated for some time. From what I've found...

L-head = grey or silver

F-head 4 = Black

F-head 6 = Off white or "Allstate" blue

Title: Re: 48 jeepster engine color
Post by: kfnut on June 09, 2010, 08:53:32 PM

JIm , if you had a 48 L head 134 , which color would you use ?

Title: Re: 48 jeepster engine color
Post by: retired wrench on November 17, 2010, 01:06:14 PM

 This probably doesnt apply here but we bought 3 jeep engines after the war and they were dark green. Sealed with cosmoline, dessicant packs by all elec. components, in wooden crates, $100 a copy.

Title: Re: 48 jeepster engine color
Post by: kaiserfrazerlibrary on November 17, 2010, 02:47:58 PM

Sounds like you got some military surplus product.  Nothing at all wrong with it, but it won't be the same color as the "civilian" goods.

Title: Re: 48 jeepster engine color
Post by: HJ-ETEX on November 22, 2010, 07:41:58 PM

Mike, if you have an L-head 134, I would go with what Jim Lape recommended - John Deere Green. This is available at Tractor Supply. You could also use Rustoleum Hunter Green, but that more blue in it. 

Title: Re: 48 jeepster engine color
Post by: Logan on November 28, 2010, 10:20:50 PM

John Deer green is off, at least for Kaiser engines.  Gary Micanek Micanek@att.net advertises the correct dark green paint in the bulletin.  Anyway, I don't know if the Willys uses the same dark green as 51-53 Kaisers, but if so John Deer would not be correct.