I have just had an BMC/BL A Plus engine block rebored and now due to change of plans I want to store it for a future project maybe a year or two ahead. I'll be keeping it in a dry garage, but I want to protect the newly bored and honed cylinder bores and the crankshaft and camshaft bearings.
Can anyone recommend a product or products that I can use to protect the working surfaces?
Thanks in advance.
Dry storing an engine block
-
MarinaCoupe
- Posts: 27
- Joined: Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:37 pm
- Location: Bedford
Re: Dry storing an engine block
The bearings should be fine, just keep them in their wax paper. I have a couple of Rover v8s stored with the heads off. I used spray grease on the bores, wiped it around and they still look good. They are in a dry-ish garage. One has been there for a bit over 2 years and hasn't rusted yet.
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
-
MarinaCoupe
- Posts: 27
- Joined: Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:37 pm
- Location: Bedford
Re: Dry storing an engine block
Thanks Terry
Do you mean like white silicon spray grease? Got lots of that.
Chris
Do you mean like white silicon spray grease? Got lots of that.
Chris
Re: Dry storing an engine block
That's the stuff 
just squirt a bit on and rub it over the exposed metal. No air / water can get to it that way so no corrosion.
I suppose you could use normal grease instead but it is a bit harder to spread out.
just squirt a bit on and rub it over the exposed metal. No air / water can get to it that way so no corrosion.I suppose you could use normal grease instead but it is a bit harder to spread out.
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Re: Dry storing an engine block
Waxoyle is good stuff spray it all over the block and bores oilways etc. Wrap it up in a polythene sheet with a packet of desicated crystals from B&Q etc.Do the same with the crank. It'll last forever. I've got a spare block etc for my 1942 Dodge and it is as good as it was when I preserved it 5 years ago.
Phil
Phil