L ENG ON A B767-300 BRUSHES A PIECE OF GND EQUIP DURING THE RAMP OP ACFT PARKING PROC AT THE GATE IN LAX; CA.

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AFTER LNDG RWY 25L; SHORT TAXI TO GATE. TURN IN TO GATE; GUIDE MAN AND WING WALKERS SET UP. GUIDE MAN BROUGHT US UP TO JUST SHORT OF THE GATE AND GAVE US A FAST STOP. LATER; THE GUIDE MAN GOT ON THE INTERCOM AND TOLD US THAT 'MAYBE SOME EQUIP MAY BE TOO CLOSE.' THEY HOOKED UP THE TUG AND PULLED THE ACFT IN THE LAST FEW FT. MECHS CAME INTO THE COCKPIT AND SAID SOMETHING TOUCHED THE L ENG AND LEFT A 'SCUFF.' SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 619449: GND EQUIP APPEARED TO BE IN THEIR TYPICAL LOCATION; SCATTERED ON THE RAMP; APPEARED CLRED OF OUR PATH. THE ACFT WAS ON THE CTRLINE AND I FOLLOWED THE GUIDE MAN'S INSTRUCTIONS. I STOPPED ON HIS SIGNAL. ALL SEEMED NORMAL; TYPICAL GATE ARR; EXCEPT I COMMENTED TO THE FO THAT THE GUIDE MAN EXPRESSIONS UPON HIS STOP COMMAND WERE UNUSUAL. THERE WAS A DELAY IN OPENING THE FORWARD ENTRY DOOR. 2 MINS LATER; I WAS ASKED TO RELEASE THE BRAKES SO THEY COULD MOVE THE ACFT A FEW FT FORWARD SO IT WOULD BE PROPERLY POSITIONED WITH THE JETBRIDGE. I WAS ADVISED THAT THE ACFT MAY HAVE BEEN CLOSE OR MAY HAVE SWIPED GND EQUIP. I WAS TOLD THAT THE MECH DID INSPECT THE L ENG; NO PROB WAS NOTED. I FOUND NOTHING VISIBLE; BUT A LIGHT SMUDGE; NOTHING VISIBLE; NO SCRATCHES. I FOUND NO GND CREW IN SIGHT. THE MECH WHO WAS CHKING OUR WRITE-UPS IN THE COCKPIT; ADVISED ME THAT IT WAS AN ONGOING PROB; EQUIP NOT PROPERLY SECURED. IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE TO BE GUIDED IN WITH WINGWALKERS AND ALMOST HAVE A DISASTER IMPACTING GND EQUIP.