Oct 1, 2015 · After 1955 the engine was only used in the wagons and trucks and in 1957 or so Willys changed the cam to favor low end torque and switched to a 1 Bbl carb to save money. The later engines were rated at 105 hp.

Aug 31, 2017 · Willys engine blocks had a red colored sealer applied to the casting. Later the entire engine was painted black (for a CJ). As an aside - I also think this is the reason people report that their original engine was red. In time the black paint peels off, …

Oct 23, 2009 · The engine in my 1964 FC chassis -- the original engine -- is a 6.86 and is/was silver. The page above is from a Parts List, so perhaps as Willys built engines to be sold as replacements, they color-coded them in the colors above to help easily keep track of which was which once assembled.

Jul 13, 2011 · So heres a twist on the original thread, I had heard that all of the blocks were black, and that the heads for engines east of the Mississippi were black, and heads for west of the big river were Red, indicating a high altitude engine. I do know that when Willys did a re-man they painted the entire engine red, I've got one with the 1R serial ...

Jun 8, 2020 · Aside from a light facelift in 61, Kaiser/Willys spent as little as possible making these things. We should count ourselves lucky that they splurged on engine paint at all (by then transmissions and transfer cases were bare cast iron, steering gearboxes and driveshafts were red oxide primer).

If that was the case, I'd guess the original color was ... wait for it .. USMC green. Seriously, government vehicles probably would have been a green or OD based color. The Bucyrus/Erie machine green isn't all that far from the USMC green. On civilian vehicles, the general opinion is that engine colors were black (no real info on gloss, satin ...

I would like to know what it is for a 48 Willys. Thus far, It appears that there were two main colors, black and orange. Somewhere I read the orange ones were remanufactured engines by Willys, but not sure. The engine in my jeep is orange. My oil canister, airfilter and filter plumbing is black and my Oil filler cover is

Jan 16, 2024 · There will never be a Concord restoration judging for a Willys product. There is not sufficient information to what is factory correct or not, day for day, Monday through Friday. As LarrBeard alluded to, your engine is an industrial engine that came out of a generator, welder, air compressor, or any other host of applications.

May 10, 2020 · They were painted light green until 1954-55, when they started painting them dark red. Kaiser buys Willys Overland in 1953, and beginning with the 1954 production, installs a ,yet again, retooled Kaiser Supersonic 226 engine in the Willys truck, changing the name to SuperHurricane and changing the color to silver.

Oct 7, 2015 · Oh really ,....i had thought i had seen or read somewhere someplace that engine color had something to do with compression and altitude settings ....like a lower altitude engine was painted blue and higher altitude engines were red or something like that. Larry