In a message dated 3/22/2010 8:06:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, sfcebula@YAHOO.COM writes: I just pulled the engine out of my wrecked van and I was wondering if anybody had any advice for long-term storage. For now I just blocked off all the ports and put the engine in my shed. Thanks
hello steve I would squit some oil into each clylinder, rotate the engine some to coat everything,put the plugs back in, , then remove the rocker arms so that all the valves will be closed and no tension on any of the valve springs later mark d |
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