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My guess is the same reason some of the NHC-250s are in the 800 series trucks.
They come from rebuild as black and there is no need or wanting to paint them. But that's just a guess.
Pretty good one since I have three 818s sitting by the barn all rebuilt 5/2002 and all have black engines.
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