paint code?

[bigmog]

does anyone know if there is a paint code for the older lime green yanmar colour, or am I taking a panel to be colour matched

 

[George2615]

I've seen many queries on other sites as well with no definite answers. Take a panel to an auto shop that has a paint scanner tool. Their paint scanner will give the closest match.

 

[normde2001]

There is no paint code that Yanmar will release, especially on a gray market tractor; however Hoye has matched paint.

 

[California]

Been looking 10+ years and I've never seen a vehicle on the street with an exact match.

Ford ultimate green - Paint code 9GFE5ZA

Ebay - UK link

is used on some Ford Focus's so it should be easy to find. It's not a perfect match but I think it would look decent on a Yanmar. Also Kawasaki motorcycles used a similar color.

 

[normde2001]

SPRAY PAINT - FRAME GREEN: Yanmar Tractor Parts
OOPS!! misread that Hoye has the gray market colors. A Yanmar Authorized Parts Dealer may have the code or color for the lime green US tractors.

 

[kenmac]

SPRAY PAINT - FRAME GREEN: Yanmar Tractor Parts

bought some of this at wal mart.. I best I remember , it's olive green

 

[California]

... and Fire Engine Lime Green is a closer match to what my elderly Yanmar has faded to.

View attachment 460098

 

[PILOON]

I once had an MG-B that was that green----YUCK
It otherwise was mint (pun not intended) but soon got re painted.

That green was meant to be 'emergency green' and to replace fire engine red, but today only airport vehicles seem to sport that color.

 

[California]

First time I saw a green Yanmar I was reminded of the Euclid earthmoving equipment of the 50's and 60's. Below is the only photo I can find of one with the original paint. Lots of 'restored' photos online - and none matched this color.

Euclid built some interesting earthmoving equipment. Jumbo offroad trucks and scrapers, and the TC-12 (several photos), a 450+ hp monster crawler with separate GM diesels driving each track.

 

[woolyAcres]

There was a pretty complete paint job and write up here.

 

[California]

There was a pretty complete paint job and write up here.

WoolyAcres, thanks! The paint formula in that post is what the OP is looking for.

Also: There's something wrong with how TBN filed photos a while back and my links I put in that 2013 post, now go to nowhere. My photo of the underside of the YM240 cowl is still in my Attachments listing and is visible in the original post that I attached it to.

Lets see if this fresh link to the photo works:

 

[California]

I once had an MG-B that was that green----YUCK

Even worse is what this YM240 showroom brochure has faded to. Call it pea-soup green? :yuck:

 

[woolyAcres]

WoolyAcres, thanks! The paint formula in that post is what the OP is looking for.

Also: There's something wrong with how TBN filed photos a while back and my links I put in that 2013 post, now go to nowhere. My photo of the underside of the YM240 cowl is still in my Attachments listing so I think it is visible in the original post I attached it to even though subsequent links to it fail. When I get time I'll find it and link it from here since I think that underside of the cowl is the best example of original color.

I only knew about it because when I first got my YM240 I had dreams of polishing it up and getting it painted. I went so far as to find a local body shop that would do the parts that I removed from the tractor and brought in. I never ACTUALLY removed anything for painting. There just wasn't much point. That wasn't going to change the way it ran or the things it would be capable of and I don't have money or interest in a restore for its own sake. In my case that money was better spent on redoing the loader controls, though I'm still having issues there.

Hopefully the OP will find it useful.

 

[California]

Got rained out again so I'm back to puttering on the computer ...

Here's a screenprint comparing that Ebay Ford touchup paint color to original Yanmar lime green. Not identical, but its the closest I've seen in stock colors.

Actually I think the Ford green looks stylish, modern. I like it better than Yanmar's 70's Polyester Leisure Suit Green.

 

[California]

Found a match! The green on Clark forklifts is a very close match and it is available from their parts department.

 

[clemsonfor]

WoolyAcres, thanks! The paint formula in that post is what the OP is looking for.

Also: There's something wrong with how TBN filed photos a while back and my links I put in that 2013 post, now go to nowhere. My photo of the underside of the YM240 cowl is still in my Attachments listing and is visible in the original post that I attached it to.

Lets see if this fresh link to the photo works:

i'm sure I saw this before but forgot, but that is a good way to get around the old hard to come by or slightly don't fit original foil fuses. Much quicker than the replacement panel that I put in. It works, I like the look of the new panel that I put in more but this is functional and cheap...as cheap as inline fuses are now a days, but with ebay and china, the last inline I bought I think I paid less than a dollar for shipped to my door from china. It even took the regular blade size fuses.

 

[California]

Thanks! yes functional and cheap, and dead reliable for 13 years now.

In addition to non-available fuse elements, the microscopic screws and washers at the original fuses made replacing a fuse a frustrating PIA working upside down under there. These glass fuses could be replaced by touch if I ever needed to.

Today if I were doing the project I would use blade fuses with the wire terminal colors matching the color of the fuses.