sitting engine

[Garbe]

My engines been sitting completed for about 4-5 weeks, i molyed all the parts as detailed in the haynes, and i turn it every few days,
i have'nt put oil in it.
question is will it be ok like this ??

[Jiff Lemon]

Yup, she'll be fine :) Mine was in a similar state for much longer!

[Garbe]

just looking over it today, as you do, and noticed that the timing idler and water pump rollers had some rust forming on them, pistons etc should be fine with the amount of WD40 i used when doing the head surfaces.

so put the oil in when it eventually get in the car?

[Paul Woods]

relax matey,it'll be fine....ive left engines for 2 years or more like this and apart from maybe a gunged up injector they were mechanically fine.