Engine painting details

[Charlynsane]

Hello Guys,

My mk1 is now restored and run perfectly but,

I was wondering to my self what where the original painting of

1) Cluctch arm anchor, was it green or back or unfinished? Thank to 1071bob for his excellent repro!

2)Clutch slave cylinder: was it green or unfinished??

3) How was originally painted the coil bracket on dynamo?Black, Green or stainless steel like modern repro?


Thank you

[mk1]

I'm fairly certain on all of these;

1) Cluctch arm anchor - Black

2)Clutch slave cylinder - Green

3) How was originally painted the coil bracket - Zinc Galvanised.

[Charlynsane]

Dear Mark,

Thank you for all your answers..

I will have to paint some bits..

I was persuaded that the ignition coil bracket (not the one sold with the coil) but the big one wrapped around the dynamo was black????

[mk1]

Couple of factory images;






This one could be green.

However, none of them are black.

[Gareth Brandt]

Couple of factory images;






This one could be green.

However, none of them are black.

All the ones I have, and have seen, are green engine colour

[mk1]

I have had a number of cars that had zinc plated silver ones.

But as I said above, it does look like some were green painted.

[mk1]

This is pretty useless really, a clip from an original BMC flim showing engines painted & ready to fit.

The bracket in question will be either zinc or green NOT black.

[Charlynsane]

On this unrestored item

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mk1-Mini-Luca ... 43d43461c7

The bracket seems to be black

Here some pictures of my car before restoration







The coil bracket seems to be zinc plated, I didn't remember, the slave cylinder unpainted and the clutch arm anchor rusty or green!

[mk1]

Using the above references;

The coil bracket seems to be zinc plated - in both examples, the ebay one & your unrestored car.


The slave cylinder unpainted - Most likely it has been replaced or clutch fluid has removed the paint. I am CERTAIN that these were painted green from new.

clutch arm anchor rusty or green - having had a think & as the slave was definitely painted green the anchor bracket was probably also painted green too. These were done in a complete lump as per the bad illustration above.