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February 2003
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Re: Purchasing 3T-GTE and Not started in 2 years, Please help!
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Mon, 18 April 2005 02:36
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if you're worried about dry bearings and/or rings stuck to the bores, can i suggest that before running the engine (e.g. fuel & spark) you:
-drain the crankcase of oil/fluids
-re-fill it with about 8-10 litres of diesel fuel (yes, diesel) so the crank is partly in the fluid
-attach a cheap oil filter
-take rocker-cover off and coat cam/rocker gear with same
-squirt machine oil or other fine & light oil into the bores via the plug holes
-with a spanner, rotate the engine via the crank pulley to get oil on all the bores and around the crank bearings adn other wearing surfaces
-using the starter motor, crank the engine until you have oil constant oil pressure (easiest to attch a guage to the sender port
once the battery is flat or you feel confident that there's oil thru-out the motor, dump the diesel and re-fill with proper engine oil and replace the cheapo oil filter with a genuine article.
if you feel brave, you could even run the engine for a few minutes using diesel as lubricant - the detergents in that fuel will do a great job of removing gunk from the oil galleries and bearing faces.
now that i think about, there's probably an old thread on this topic as i remember some discussion about whether running the engin on diesel was safe or not.
Also - do similar thing with the cooling system as the first run/warmup will dislodge large amounts of corrosion/powdery gunk which will pollute the radiator and coolant.
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