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I want to paint my engine
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Karl,
If you think of it as a 3 day process is might seem daunting, but don’t. Think of it as a number of short duration steps because there is cleaning, prepping (wire brushing, masking, light disassembly), and then paintig, but in stages.
Remove the belts and paint the end of the engine. Then another day work on the LH side with its cleaning, prepping, and some disassembly, and then another time do the RH side. A couple of hours at a time might stretch the 3 days over a couple of weeks but with each few hour period you do see results.
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This is what a Series 60 looks like before heat changes the paint color. (The red pipes are an MCI thing.) This photo was taken at about 10,000 miles.
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Bryan,
Did that nice looking blue end up looking greenish like all of ours?
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Jon, my bus only had 10k on it when I bought it last year. The engine was as pictured. When I first looked at the bus I thought the engine might be a re-build because I had never seen that color on a Series 60. Of course it turned out to be the low mileage (yes, too low) original. I’ve added about 5,000 miles since then, and it is still blue. I’m hoping to spin the odometer a bit more this summer, so it will be interesting to see how the paint matures.
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Kinda interesting that Detroit does have a green color that many use to touch-up or repaint older blue motors. It’s very close in color to the green (aged clear coated blue). I think they use the green for marinized engines, but that;s really just a guess.
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Detroit has had an industrial green for older 2 stroke engines. Then they started using silver for the DDEC 2 stroke engines, and now blue. I cannot say anything about marine or any engines painted by someone using them in their own product like a generator or pump.
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I do like that blue….
May have to borrow someone’s (Jon’s) garage to do that much work though. My storage place probably won’t allow that.
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Nice Oakie……
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Tom hasn’t painted his engines. He trades so often the paint wouldn’t dry.
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Paint & chrome don’t get ya home…..
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Thanks Tom, I appreciate it very much. I guess it is a throw-back to my military days. When I was in the Navy they would find something amiss, and the general idea to fix it would be to “wax it and buff it.” It just sort of morphed into, clean it up and paint it, in my later years.
Coming home on my first leave, my grandfather (bless his heart) asked me, “What are you doing in that there Navy son?” and I said, “I am assigned to a VP Squadron out of Jacksonville Florida.”
He then said, “What is it you do exactly?”
I replied, “We fly around all day long looking for Russian submarines Grandpa.”
He then said, “What do you do with ’em when you come upon one?”
I replied, “Well Grandpa, usually we just wax ’em and buff ’em, and then send them home.”
You are absolutely right “paint & chrome” don’t get you home. Coachnet, the Big Hook do the job most of the time, for everything else, there is MasterCard (now Tom, I ask you … wasn’t this priceless?).
Watch those right-handers.
<>DS<>
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AW Jeez ,you guys are costing me a lot of money cause now I hafta go buy some padlocks so nobodycan see my engine compartment ! Bryan that engine looks cool with the red pipes.
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Yep, priceless Oakie….
Red – Lock your engine compartment, I’ve seen it and it didn’t look like the Viper!
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What are you a peeping TOM ?????
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Red, was your bus converted by American Coach in Michigan or by American Carriage? Mine was done by American Coach. We might be able to share some systems info if our buses are cousins. I know that no Prevost would freely admit to being a cousin of an MCI, but there’s no shame in it. Even in the best families there might have been some hanky-panky somewhere in the family tree…
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