Max:
Most cars don't like sitting unused for any length of time which is why
rotating the engine once in a while is always recomended.
I had a couple of stored engines seize solid during storage and one destroyed
by water damage, so I tend to be pretty conservative now. Somehow a short time
of inactivity turns into years stashed away at the back of the shop.
I prepped the last batch of short blocks just before moving back in 1995, they
have been in a rented storage area since then under a row of sagging shelving.
I broke one out about a couple of years ago to use as a mockup for the MGB
supercharger kit. In fact if anyone is interested by this point, that block is
the one on the engine stand pictured in the Summer British Motoring blurb on
the kit.
Kelvin.
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>
> Well, yeah, I was kind of assuming you'd have to go through
> it eventually,
> anyway. Then I read Kelvin's elaborate procedures... kind of makes me
> wonder how motors in running cars survive parked in garages
> all winter...
> not that I know anything about that.
>
> on 12/10/03 11:15 AM, Rick Lindsay at rolindsay@stoolhead.com wrote:
>
> > The one thing that we must not forget, Max, is
> > that it is FUN to rebuild engines. :-) This is
> > a hobby, at least for me. It my C4 daily driver
> > that I don't want to rebuild!
> >
> > rick
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