Re: Best way to preserve/"fog") motors?

[20mercman]

I like that idea of "Quarter turn Friday." We do something very much like that, the motors that are stored on overhead racks are either direct drive motors or are left in gear so as to be able to turn them while in storage. We do that about every two weeks, but having a day of the week to do it is a good idea. It is also good for the water pumps to keep them from getting too much of a set. We fog all of our running motors. With 70 motors in the collection, and about 50 that are serviceable, it is a big job to do all of them. We have a tank of fuel that we have about 20:1 oil mixture and a stabilizer in it. We also then fog them and remove the plugs and add some oil to the cylinders. I don’t usually change the gear oil unless it has water in it. We do check them for water, and if we find any, then they come apart to find the leak. (If it is a motor that is in "serviceable" condition. If it is waiting for restoration, we make sure that the water is removed.) I usually run them mostly out of fuel while fogging, and the ones that go in the house have all the fuel removed.

Steve