Just soak the pistons and rings with liquid wrench or some other
rust/corrosion remover, and let it sit for a while. Give it a good
soaking. Put the car in fourth gear and rock it back and forth. If
that doesn't do it, put the clutch in and have the car pushed. When
rolling about 10 mph, drop the clutch. Be aware though, that sometime,
the corrosion can be SO Bad, that you'll have to disassemble the engine
and beat the pistons out with a sledge. Had to do that to an extra IMP
engine I had. Actually had to shatter the pistons to get it apart!
Rich
> ----------
> From: haltman(at)VNET.IBM.COM[SMTP:haltman(at)VNET.IBM.COM]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 1997 1:53 PM
> To: alpines(at)autox.team.net
> Subject: Big Bore Alpine Engines
>
> BOY am I confused!!!!! I remember asking if I could/should look to
> sleeve my
> 1494 engine and was told NO NEVER the cost will eat you up!! And now
> I hear
> several people singing the praises of the very same tech. What
> gives?? So
> at the risk of repeating myself I'm going to repeat myself.... The
> engine in
> my series one wont turn by hand (even with the head removed!), the
> pistons
> read +.040 which I took to believe that those are the largest pistons
> available
> for that engine. So I ask (again) should I replace this engine
> (yuck!) or
> look to sleeve the engine and use smaller pistons? Please help reduce
> the
> level of confusion you guys helped create!!
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Howard Altman
> S1 B9003995 LRX
>
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