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Old Feb 26, 2018 | 11:58 AM
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Was the timing cover also painted?

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Hi 74,
Here's a photo of the engines being painted at Tonawanda.
You can see the exhaust manifolds were in place so they got painted too....unlike the small blocks from Flint that had the exhaust manifolds installed at St.Louis.
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