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I was worried about paint and the turbo o-ring seals and front cover etc on mine, but I see you painted right over them. I suppose it probably won't be an issue then if paint in where the turbo o-rings and front cover seal would go is it?
I wanted to be extra cautious after what happened with my first motor so I took a little longer than normal to mask and clean things up.
Yours looks good though! I think hot pink would have been a little better though. (okay I'm joking!)
LMAO!! Pink would of of been good too lol.
I decided to use cat yellow, it was between JD green, Navistar Blue, or stock black but stock wouldn't do, it had to catch some attention ya know and also it would easier to find leaks if when it does happen. Oh and the over spray was cleaned with brake cleaner look good as new once I sprayed it and cleaned it, the oil passages on block and timing cover got cleaned as well over all its clean.
I wasn't too keen of yellow but grew on me when that was the only paint I had when I started rebuilding the turbos on the work trucks.
Now time to get the old heart out of the Mule and install this one.
Only thing worse is the motor in my 76 is the same color.. :-( guess that will get pulled to be painted.
Ha!! It's was hard choosing the color but in the end should look good when it's sitting on the Mules painted engine bay. I was thinking of doing a wire tuck like you see on the import scene, makes the engine look like its floating in the engine bay but we'll see.....
I really wanted to try and clean up the wires when I re-did my motor but I ran out of patience to do that.
It seems like it would be very difficult to clean up the wiring on these motors with everything that's going on in there. I was considering buy/making some type of hard/rigid wire loom (like aluminum or something) to hide the bulk of the wiring harnesses in so it looked cleaner. I'm not really sure how I'd go about that yet though.
Some progress was made replaced every seal on the long block, painted the new oil cooler, oil cooler end caps, new oil pump housing painted, the fuel lines got new Parker seals, installed new injector cups with green sealant so I can run ELC, installed rocker arm and brackets, pushrods, and glow plugs, just need the injectors and oil pan and should be complete. Here's some pics so all of y'all can enjoy.
07-08-2017, 08:15 PM
but we'll see.....
