I'm imagining a spray can that could be screwed into the oil cap threads of the GPAS Type 1 VW engine. Or, instead of something that fits the threads of the oil breather box, something just held in place by hand pressure for the short time it would take to "fog" the inside of the engine - that part of it below the pistons. I DO have a can of "fogging oil" that I bought I don't remember where. NAPA probably.
Seems like this would be a good thing to do before running an engine that hasn't run in quite a while, or an engine that is being pickled. Seems like this oil fog would coat everything that is not already covered in oil. I'm thinking especially of cam lobes. Does anyone know of a particular product (like Cam Guard) that's designed for this sort of thing? Another thought - a fitting that would fit a compressor hose that would mix air with a bottle of oil, something like we have as a standard attachment to a normal pressure washer? The compressor would be pushing air while sucking up oil from a small bottle of oil thus making an misted oil spray that could be aimed into the breather box oil entrance hole? A pressure washer puts out too much pressure to be suitable for what I've got in mind, but without checking to see, it may be possible to turn down the pressure low enough to make this a reasonable idea. The crankcase breather type would relieve excess pressure as long as pressure wasn't ridiculously high. Maybe a small garden sprayer is a better idea. It could be pumped up to high pressure and inserted into the oil breather opening. A WD-40-sized can is more what I've got in mind but I'm just going through ideas in my head - the objective being to blow an oil mist into the insides of the engine to thoroughly coat everything below the pistons. The parts of the cylinders above the pistons can be gotten to through the spark plug holes. Anybody ever done anything like this and, if so, did you use "fogging oil" or just regular oil combined with some kind of anti-corrosion product? I'd appreciate any thoughts anyone has. Meanwhile I'll prowl around the internet to see what engine manufacturers do when they prepare an engine for long periods of sitting, as for shelving in the warehouse as reserve stock. "Cosmoline" pops into my mind as I think about this but I'm thinking this is a product used on the exterior of an engine or other machine. Mike Stirewalt KSEE ____________________________________________________________ What Popcorn Really Does To Your Memory clearstateofmind.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5cd9e6062360066061528st02vuc _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
