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Tony, wanted to share my colors. My engine was a gold replacement engine. What I have painted yellow were originally yellow. I striped the yellow pieces down to the bare metal and there was no green to be found so I kept it.

Mark
 

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Mark - thanks for the photos - they're helpful

Sprites & Midgets were a little different tohugh...MG didn't paint the transmission & sprayed the entire engine with all the covers after it was assembled...for example, my rear generator mount is green except for where it's bolted to the block & that's never been painted....& the thermostat cover was never painted - its just raw aluminum.

And your photo brougth out more questions on the fan & its pulley...both yours are yellow; Jack's pulley is green...mine was green w/yellow fan???

And I now have questions on intake/exhaust manifolds...I thought they were silver but yours is yellow!?!

Man oh man!
 
Exhaust and intake were not painted Tony.

Pulley was green with yellow fan blades.
 
As mentioned my fan and pulley were also yellow down to the bone. Maybe this yellow was only used on gold engines. The manifold was also yellow. If you think about it these would all be caution areas due to heat or movement except for the oil cannister. As I said in my original post I have wondered why everyone else was going straight green.

In the end it looks good and this is not a show car but it will be a beauty. Just finishing the epoxy prime on a rust free body.

Mark :thirsty:
 
Confusing.....confusing....confusing...

& "The Original Sprite & Midget" doesn't have the quality photos that "The Original MGB" has!
 
Actually Mark, I think it looks preaty darn nice.
 
OKAY - now for something different: the <span style="font-weight: bold">DIPSTICK</span>

My dipstick tube slides in & out of the block easily - too easily, methinks.....should there be a rubber washer or something that holds it in the block? & is that plastic part that sticks out of the block painted green?

& what color is the dipstick itself? Mine appears to have`been black?

& should there be a rubber grommet to hold it tightly in the tube?
 
As I remember the dip stick was engine color Tony. I painted mine yellow just because.
 
Both Horler and the Concours Registry say that the pulley was the same color as the fan blades, red on the earliest Bugeyes then yellow thereafter. Photo on page 35 in Horler shows the pulley painted yellow.
 
Woops, time to get out the paint. Did not see that in Horler and do not have access to concours Registry.

Thanks Ray, appreciate the heads up.

Now I have something to do.
 
K - that takes care of pulley....now, anybody gt ideas on the dipstick questions I posed?

Oh, do you have complete names of those 2 references?
 
Tony... when in doubt paint it green! :wink:
 
Possibly, Trevor, possibly....but can someone pull their dipstick out of the tube & tell me if there's a rubber seat - & do the same for their dipstick tube from the block.
 
Wait, I find no pic on page 35 of the pully. Can not speek to the concours registery. In fact I find no mention in Horler of the front pully for a bugeye.
 
On the 1275 there a washer or dipstick stop incorporated in the dipstick, on the early 948 they didn't have this, like the early MGBs, on the 948 I know for sure a indention in the pan stops the dipstick and set's it hieght, on the 10CC 1098 I have no idea. Now if we're talking orignality, count me out, not a game I play :smile: but if we're talking not having oil spit out of the dipstich tube, then I might be able to help, you can take a piece of 1/4 rubber fuel line, taper it on the end that fit into the tube ( I use the bench grinder for this ) and then take a carb return spring and bolt it to the alternator/genorator bracket and then hook it into dipstick eye, and it looks pretty presentable and affords one less place for these engine to dribble. I don't play the orginality game, because the factory needed way too much help to make these cars better, and I can't force myself to be less than expected to be "correct". With 1275 Bugeyes winning shows all over the country, forget originality and make it your own, my opinion for what it's worth.
 
I'm with Hap!
 
When I pull my dipstick from he tube with the tube inserted in the block, the tube moves upward about 2" - it doesn't come out of the block, just moves....I figure that's a place where its gonna leak.

And my dipstick only has a metal washer that sits on top of the tube when the dipstick is in it....another place to leak.

Surely, the tube should stay in place & not move?....& surely there's gotta be a rubber grommet that mates the dipstick to the tube?
 
consider a bit of JB weld to hold that sleeve in place and slip an o ring over the dip stick. I'll never tell.

The heck I won't. gesh. street engines do not leak from the dip stick hole.
 
Jack, LBC's leak from any hole!
 
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