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From: Faure, Marin (no email)
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 13:03:34 EST
>For some years Grand Banks repainted Ford Lehman engines a color
approaching avocado green. My 1971 models in my 1972 boat are this
color, and I have not found any other color under this green color at
any time I have messed about in the holy place in the last eighteen
years.
Bob Smith at American Diesel told me the following a couple of years
ago-- At one point in the early 1970s, American Marine felt they could
save money by purchasing the Ford Dorset Diesel engine directly from
Ford of England and the Lehman marinization kit directly from Lehman.
The cost savings, they believed, would come from their installing the
Lehman marinization components themselves on the base engine right in
the Kowloon or Singapore yards on the floor next to the boat the engines
were going to be installed in.
The engines arrived from Ford painted whatever color they were painted,
or maybe it was just gray primer. The Lehman components arrived in a
primed condition (as they do now if you buy components from them).
American Marine selected two colors to paint their self-assembled Ford
Lehmans. One was a sort of gold-yellow color, the other was the avocado
or olive green you mention. So there would be no red under the green or
gold paint on these engines because these direct-purchased engines were
never painted red to begin with.
Bob told me they did this for several years until they eventually
determined what they were doing was actually costing them more than
buying the already marinized and painted engines direct from Lehman. So
they went back to buying their Ford Lehmans from Lehman, with the
marinization hardware already installed. Most or all of the marinized
engines supplied by Lehman were painted red.
Our 1973 boat has green engines, although at some point they were
painted Alpine Green, which is the color used by Detroit Diesel. There
are a few places, mainly the engine mount brackets, where the original
olive green is visible. Why our engines were repainted is something I
have no idea of, as there is no evidence they've ever been out of the
boat. As the paint job is a reasonably good one, I can only assume
someone went to a hell of a lot of trouble to paint them in place. They
had low hours when we bought the boat-- about 1,200 each-- and there is
no indication in the paperwork and logs that came with the boat that the
engines were ever overhauled or rebuilt. So why they were repainted
Alpine Green is a mystery, but whoever did it did us a favor as Alpine
Green engine paint is available everywhere.
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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington
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