Another Resto Question -- Bell Housing

[Kurt S]

I'm always surprised that all the bellhousings you see at swapmeets are natural, not common to see a painted vintage part. Since most don't appear to be blasted, what happened to the paint?

[jon rand]

Paint dosen't Stick to aluminum to well, a couple good blast at the car wash will blow it right off.

[69L89396]

When was the transmission attached to the bell housing? It seams if the engine left the factory with the transmission, it should have some overspray on it as well if it was painted with it attached?

I'm like you Kirt S, I have not seen any bellhousings with paint and they didn't look blasted. I have had some before that were painted back in the old hot rod days.

How do you make paint stick to aluminum anyway without special primer?

[Edited by 69L89396 (03-14-2002 at 11:42 PM).]

[Charley Lillard]

I've had a a few bellhousings that I had to really work at to get the orig. paint off of. At least I assume it was orig. paint.

[L89DRMR]

I parted out an L78 with 48,000 miles on it and the bellhousing was completely covered in orange paint. This car was purchased from the original owner who never raced or modified the car so at least this one came through with the painted bellhousing,since he never removed the drivetrain or replaced the clutch when he owned it. Dave

[69L89396]

I was talking to a friend that restores cars and he said that most of the big block solid lifter Camaros he has seen, did not have the bell housing painted. He did say that on all the Corvettes they were though. The Camaro Z/28's were painted also. But there are too many inconsistencies to say which is correct. Back them there were no standards to go by like there are now.

So I guess it can go either way and be considered "correct".

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I'm checking back through some of the old topics that I've missed.

Us Deuce guys have had this debate for a long time, and we were fortunate enough to get some pics of Dave Belk's bellhousing just as they were pulling it out of the car. It appears that his car had a wide band of orange at the flange. I think Schoneye's had quite a bit more orange on his bell. We concluded that for the Deuces, which were built in three consectutive weeks, the bell should not be completely orange but have a several inches of the flange oversprayed.

If some new info shows up later, at least it's not a tough thing to change! [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]