Re: More obsessing about hoses and other 1964 engine bay
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Re: More obsessing about hoses and other 1964 engine bay



Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>, you said...

>You can see an example of the yellow stripe at 
>http://www.mattsoldcars.com/gallery/EdmundAnderson2004/low_mile_american/index.
shtml.

Now *this* is excellent.  A four-year gap between what I drive and this 
very clean American, but much of this matches up with  what I had already 
speculated on and heard (the stripe on the host, the particular clamps, 
etcetra).  Excellent stuff.

>Besides the engine assembled before painting, the transmissions were also 
>attached. When I rebuild the 232 in my American, the bellhousing had over 
>spray on it and it wasn't painted behind the flywheel. Tom Benvie and 
>Larry Daum supplied a lot of information on painting 199 and 232 inline 
>sixes a few years ago. I put a page together with that information at 
>http://www.mattsoldcars.com/RestoreAmerican/inline6painting.shtml. I'm not 
>sure how much of it applies directly to the 195.6's but if nothing else, 
>it may assist in forensic work if your engine hasn't been rebuilt before.

It helps, for sure.  I've actually been over your site a time or two, but 
not recently.  Good stuff. :-)

Cheers,
Gwen Smith


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