Painting Engine Block; Oil/ Water Instrument

Have been cleaning and painting the engine block the past few days, plus changing the gaskets, verifying bolt torques, adjusting the tappets and various other things. I was very happy to be able to get a very good paint chip (in fact, several) off the engine block's original pale grey colour, and thanks to the suggestion of Dave at 3 Brothers Classic Rovers, who worked with paints for many years, was able to get an industrial enamel mixed to exactly the correct shade for this engine. Lots more to do!

The paint used is by Devguard, type #4338, a deep base urethane alkyd enamel, and the colour is Mansard Stone. Very nice to work with, and dries without brush strokes.

Apologies for the low lighting, but had shut down for the night when I took the photos. This makes the grey look too light in the first two photos, except in the third photo where it's actually a little dark but closer to what it looks like.

On Monday the oil pressure/water temp gauge will be leaving for Nisonger Instruments for a rebuild. Among other things, the water temperature sender is broken, which is pretty obvious!