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BJ8 engine paint color.
- Thread starter Marvin Gruber
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Another good source for the engine color is the motor mounts. Take them apart and you'll usually find the exact color the engine was painted for your car. Members in our club have done this.
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Randy,
same guy, only met him once. About a year after he had the wreak and I was building car back I wantd to put fender vents in the front fenders like he had done eariler. Layne had made several sets. I will look this engine over and see if the marking is on it. Crankshaft broke right behind #1 cyl but did't hurt anythine inside. More confused now about what color to use. The other Bj8 engine I have is correct matching for the car but not enough color left on it to get a good match.
Marv
same guy, only met him once. About a year after he had the wreak and I was building car back I wantd to put fender vents in the front fenders like he had done eariler. Layne had made several sets. I will look this engine over and see if the marking is on it. Crankshaft broke right behind #1 cyl but did't hurt anythine inside. More confused now about what color to use. The other Bj8 engine I have is correct matching for the car but not enough color left on it to get a good match.
Marv
Randy Forbes
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Marvin, Layne's Louvres are what's on my car. They were made slightly "off" from the works style, because he intended them to work WITH the spears.
The engine with the broken crankshaft should be 100% original BMC. ther than taking the oil pan off to see WTF happened, it wasn't torn down to build the engine that was in the car at the time of the wreck.
That engine is the example I cite when encouraging people here to get their dampers inspected, rebuilt or replaced! Interesting tidbit: his crank damper came apart like one (1) residential block from his house, then in Lafayette, Louisiana (off Johnson St, towards The Mall, for Jim's benefit
) and he immediately shut the engine down as soon as he felt the vibration starting__this at 18 - 20 MPH. And it probably won't take much to convince you that Layne normally (and likely just beforehand) drove like a madman. This happened in about October 1987, on his way home from visiting me in Lafayette General, where they had just removed my gall bladder__the old fashioned way, through my stomach. His then wife (coincidentally, today is HER birthday) volunteered to drive me back a week or so later to have the stitches removed, as my then wife was working in another hospital.
So the synapsis is: the engine with the broken crank should be the color it was painted at the factory; the engine in the car Layne flipped is the one I built and painted Onan Green; Layne and his ex now have a grandson and I still communicate with both. Small world, eh?
The engine with the broken crankshaft should be 100% original BMC. ther than taking the oil pan off to see WTF happened, it wasn't torn down to build the engine that was in the car at the time of the wreck.
That engine is the example I cite when encouraging people here to get their dampers inspected, rebuilt or replaced! Interesting tidbit: his crank damper came apart like one (1) residential block from his house, then in Lafayette, Louisiana (off Johnson St, towards The Mall, for Jim's benefit
) and he immediately shut the engine down as soon as he felt the vibration starting__this at 18 - 20 MPH. And it probably won't take much to convince you that Layne normally (and likely just beforehand) drove like a madman. This happened in about October 1987, on his way home from visiting me in Lafayette General, where they had just removed my gall bladder__the old fashioned way, through my stomach. His then wife (coincidentally, today is HER birthday) volunteered to drive me back a week or so later to have the stitches removed, as my then wife was working in another hospital.So the synapsis is: the engine with the broken crank should be the color it was painted at the factory; the engine in the car Layne flipped is the one I built and painted Onan Green; Layne and his ex now have a grandson and I still communicate with both. Small world, eh?
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Randy,
engine with broken crankshaft was bored .040 over. Pistons pretty loose in cylinders as well. I pulled #1 piston to see what ring configuration (4 or 5 ring). 4 ring, top ring was in pieces. Bearings all looked decent. Pistons pretty carboned up. No damper anywhere. I feel like engine was pretty worn. Hoping new rings will take take of cylinders. Not miced out yet. The engine in the wreaked car I fixed was a hoss. Strongest 6 cyl engine I ever drove, one reason I sold it. Too much fun to push to petal down. Yep, small world.
Marv
engine with broken crankshaft was bored .040 over. Pistons pretty loose in cylinders as well. I pulled #1 piston to see what ring configuration (4 or 5 ring). 4 ring, top ring was in pieces. Bearings all looked decent. Pistons pretty carboned up. No damper anywhere. I feel like engine was pretty worn. Hoping new rings will take take of cylinders. Not miced out yet. The engine in the wreaked car I fixed was a hoss. Strongest 6 cyl engine I ever drove, one reason I sold it. Too much fun to push to petal down. Yep, small world.
Marv
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I'll be ganged, because Layne's BJ8 was still relatively low miles when it broke the crank's snout, I always thought it was unmolested.
Nice to hear the one I built was still running strong.
Nice to hear the one I built was still running strong.