At some point your used block and head are going to wind up in the "hot
tank", a corrosive dip intended to remove sludge, grease, oil and, yes,
paint. I can't imagine painting a block before machining -- even if they
eschewed the dip and treated it with kid gloves at the shop (fat chance) and
didn't mess up your paint, you'd have to go back and paint all the freeze
plugs and bolt heads later.
Ross shouldn't worry about getting paint where it shouldn't be -- you
usually don't paint the engine until it's fully assembled and all buttoned
up. A few inches of masking tape will take care of the distributor drive
hole and any other orifices.
on 7/28/03 6:31 AM, Paul M. at rowman22001@yahoo.com wrote:
> I always paint engines when the come back from the
> machine shop, so the nice shiny new paint doesn't get
> damaged by the equipment, but I never thought about
> painting anything BEFORE. Might not be a bad idea. I
> suppose a careful machine shop would have no real
> problem protecting your new paint. Maybe you should
> ask the shop that is going to do the machining.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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