Painting stack valve

[canoetrpr]

When I was mucking around looking for a good location to mount my Prince SV stack valave, my wife who was helping me, was wondering whether or not I'd be painting the valve to match the tractor.

I couldn't give her a good reason as to why the valve couldn't be painted but I thought I'd check here just in case.

Once the tierods have been torqued, should I still be worried that if I used spray paint on it after covering essential areas like the ports, inputs, outputs etc., that some paint would get into the work sections?

 

[kennyd]

Go-ahead and paint it, if paint can get in then you have a bigger problem of oil getting out!

 

[3RRL]

Yeah, Kenny is right. Go ahead and paint it.
I paint mine before I install it. I use pipe plugs in the ports and tape off the chrome plunger(s) for the handle.

 

[canoetrpr]

Thanks for all the help gents. My valve came with plastic plugs in all the ports so I figure I'm covered once I use masking tape on the plunger handles.

I've just gotta pick - Kubota orange or ROPS grey