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134 color

Discussion in 'Early Jeep Restoration and Research' started by duke54, Oct 15, 2004.

  1. duke54

    duke54 Member

    What color was 55 CJ 134 and same ? on a 62 134 .I heard 55 was black and the 62 was blue :?
     
  2. Never heard of a blue one. My '65 is black.
     
  3. duke54

    duke54 Member

    so i guess you can have any color as long as it's black R)
     
  4. Glenn

    Glenn Kinda grumpy old man Staff Member

    Yeah. Or you could try black. :D :hurrican:
     
  5. duke54

    duke54 Member

    Well i'm out of black soooo i'm gonna do a blue one light blue waddya think :D
     
  6. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    Looks gud!
     
  7. willysnut

    willysnut Banned

    Shure is purty!
     
  8. SIDSCJ

    SIDSCJ Jeep addict

    I read/heard somewhere that factory reman./rebuilt F-heads wre painted blue. I do know the one I took out of the '67 CJ-5 that I parted out was a minty blue/green color. It was to be a swap motor for my '56 but ended up having a cracked deck. I took the bottom end out of it to replace the worn crank in my '56. It had undersize bearings on the crank and an .040 overbore. Was clean as a whistle inside, no sludge or goo anywhere,so I am assuming it was rebuilt at some point in its life. My '56 was originally black as almost all others I've seen. HTH
     
  9. blevisay

    blevisay Oh Noooooooooooooooo! Staff Member

    Blue was the High Altitude head.......IIRC.
     
  10. MurphyCJ48

    MurphyCJ48 New Member

    I painted my L134 ford blue. Its a very bright blue, and I really like how it looks. I dont have any pics of it right now though.
     
  11. Gump

    Gump Old Timer

    The 2As were Gloss Black (hides the oil tracks better)
     
  12. shoeman

    shoeman Tune for maximum smoke

    Hmm. Mines blue. Ser# on the firewall sez it's a '59. The PO said it was a '57. Probably some of both and more. Does blue really mean High Altitude? So it might have higher compression than the "sea level" version?
     
  13. kamel

    kamel Senior Curmudgeon

    There were four different heads for the F head. These four heads had three compression ratios with the highest being for high altitudes.

    That is per the parts manual.

    I also understand that they were painted different colors to distinguish them; the high compression head was supposed to be yellow.

    However, I have never seen this color coding in any Jeep document. But I haven't seen all the jeep documents either.

    I read somewhere that the factory rebuild engines were painted blue.

    kamel
     
  14. Glenn

    Glenn Kinda grumpy old man Staff Member