Discussion
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Big Petrolhead posting here, and I love to see/follow/unearth hibernating interesting "stuff".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzSUOSv3kmY
Question is- is it right to fire up a dormant engine after so many years beit an inline four, a V6/V8 or w.h.y?
I'm not being a purist fanatic, I'm just thinking aloud as to what perhaps I might like to see first as a start up routine
Perhaps ..diesel down the bores, a hand crank, fresh oil (would that be possible?) obviously fresh fuel.
Am I being OTT?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4icMkZkAeQ
Big Petrolhead posting here, and I love to see/follow/unearth hibernating interesting "stuff".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzSUOSv3kmY
Question is- is it right to fire up a dormant engine after so many years beit an inline four, a V6/V8 or w.h.y?
I'm not being a purist fanatic, I'm just thinking aloud as to what perhaps I might like to see first as a start up routine
Perhaps ..diesel down the bores, a hand crank, fresh oil (would that be possible?) obviously fresh fuel.
Am I being OTT?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4icMkZkAeQ
Oil does not degrade over time as much as it does whilst being used in an engine. It is fine just starting it up and letting it idle but I would not drive around as that puts the oil under pressure and heat stresses.
As it did not start initially then the oil would have been pumped around the engine plus it still would have traces of oil on its components anyway. Bores don't tend to get any oil in them (unless the rings/valve seals are worn!) and you can actually cause damage if you stick oil down a petrol bore.
Anything built pre 90s are a lot tougher than engines of today and can tolerate less tolerances.
(Oh and f
king barn find, fk off! You can't find someone that is not lost, plus it was a garage not a barn!)
As it did not start initially then the oil would have been pumped around the engine plus it still would have traces of oil on its components anyway. Bores don't tend to get any oil in them (unless the rings/valve seals are worn!) and you can actually cause damage if you stick oil down a petrol bore.
Anything built pre 90s are a lot tougher than engines of today and can tolerate less tolerances.
(Oh and f
king barn find, fk off! You can't find someone that is not lost, plus it was a garage not a barn!)If the car was running fine when it was parked up, it should fire up without doing anything.
My mate had an old Subaru Legacy standing in his barn for about 8 years. We removed the mouse nest from the engine bay, fitted a new battery and it fired up. Cleaned all the moss and bird st from the glass, fitted new wipers, drove it to the MOT BAY and it passed!!
My mate had an old Subaru Legacy standing in his barn for about 8 years. We removed the mouse nest from the engine bay, fitted a new battery and it fired up. Cleaned all the moss and bird s
t from the glass, fitted new wipers, drove it to the MOT BAY and it passed!!devnull said:
If you want to see old st being started up after donkeys years, look at the Flexiny YT channel. Addictive viewing.
Never heard of that channel, but seems like a PG version of 'ZIP TIES N BIAS PLIES', some pegleg Canadian who's absolutely off his rocker. Walks around in well sub-zero temperatures trying to get humungous old diesels to fire up by lashing several cans of Ether straight in to the engine, normally whilst necking cans of beer and saying how his dog 'Willard' is "stunned" t being started up after donkeys years, look at the Flexiny YT channel. Addictive viewing. 
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