Engine painting

[Arthurdaily]

Hi all, would it be advisable to remove everything off the engine for painting? Or would this simple cause hastle having to buy new manifold seal, water pump seal etc... Would it be easier just to paint all insitu?

What d'ya think?

[bmcecosse]

Paint all - carefully.

[cadetchris]

it can be done in-situ, but be careful on where you buy the paint from, the stuff in the small tin (from esm) takes an age to dry. no idea why, but having done everything in order to persuade it to hurry it up, it still took days to dry

[Arthurdaily]

It is out of the car, but going to leave evrything on it - well the distributor, and manifold etc... but will take the dynamo off - damn... already ordered the paint from esm lol

[chrisryder]

i can only imagine cadetchris, and esm for that matter, had a dodgy batch. chris' problem was a while ago, hopefully they've got a new batch in!

[charlie_morris_minor]

it can be done in-situ, but be careful on where you buy the paint from, the stuff in the small tin (from esm) takes an age to dry. no idea why, but having done everything in order to persuade it to hurry it up, it still took days to dry

how well was the engine degreased before painting?

when i painted my engine.. just to tart it up as it looked terrible and it will be stripped completely in a year or two and painted properly, i found that where it was well cleaned, the paint dried quickly. However where i managed to pick up some used engine oil and it took an age to dry..

just a thought

[bmcecosse]

Indeed - cleanliness is uber important. After you have it 'clean' - spray it with Carb & Choke cleaner (Toluene) to remove all traces of oil.

[Arthurdaily]

Right - and it is okay to paint over all the head nuts and stuff? I'm certainly not going to take them out - what CAN I take off the engine without needing new seals to replace?

[bmcecosse]

Nothing........Really - you are making a mountain out of a molehill here! Just PAINT it!

[Neil MG]

Note that the factory painted the engine after assembly! You can remove the carb and manifold for better access and that's just one gasket. You could also remove the distributor, but easier to remove cap and leads and mask up. Remove the spark plugs and fit wooden dowels or something (careful not to use anything small enough to fall inside). Remove the fan and pulley (not the water pump) they should be painted yellow (red on early cars). Remove the coil and filler cap, mask up the heater valve and rocker cover labels and everything else should be painted.

[Arthurdaily]

Thank you!

[RussLCV]

ideally paint it in 3 sections and then assemble it![frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame]

This is a rebuilt good Ital lump I have an even better Marina lump that I shall be painting part of it over Xmas

[bmcecosse]

So - you found a backplate that fits !

[RussLCV]

er..............nope I have a Marina lump that I need that for!!

Still looking took

[bmcecosse]

Ah right - but you can use that one as a pattern to see where you need to modify a standard 1098 backplate!

[RussLCV]

I have no way and making a standard one fit, if you can help I will gladly mail a backplate to you

H

[bmcecosse]

I just attacked mine with a small angle grinder - but you are on your own there Russ!

[RussLCV]

thought so!

[les]

There really isn't a great deal of effort needed to modify the standard one Russ, especially if you've got one to copy.

[RussLCV]

hi Les can I send one to you to modify then?