Hi, I"m restoring a 1940 A John Deere and have found something unusual in the cleanup that I wanted to ask about. This tractor has been repainted back in the late 70"s. I"ve been stripping all the green paint off and have got most of the repaint off. It still has the original green paint under the repaint and it"s tough to strip off. I got to the air cleaner assembly and found that the lower part of it has black paint under the original JD paint job. The oil cup and the separator that goes between the cup and filter housing is also black inside and out.
My question is: Should the air cleaner assembly on this A be painted black on the outside or should it be painted green? Does anyone know why it"s painted black? The upper cast portion of the air cleaner shows no black paint on it. It was completely packed with mud daubers though. It took about 2 hours of picking with long rods to bust them all out. I don"t know how it even ran. It didn"t run any better afterward though. LOL
My question is: Should the air cleaner assembly on this A be painted black on the outside or should it be painted green? Does anyone know why it"s painted black? The upper cast portion of the air cleaner shows no black paint on it. It was completely packed with mud daubers though. It took about 2 hours of picking with long rods to bust them all out. I don"t know how it even ran. It didn"t run any better afterward though. LOL