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Re: Painting blocks

To: "Skip & Joyce Higginbotham" <saltrat@pro-blend.com>,
Subject: Re: Painting blocks
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 20:59:23 -0600
Dave is trying to get me to Paint the outside of the Rodeck.... I just don't
know if I can bring myself to paint an aluminum block.... Shoot the Trans
looks fine after Two years out there... but I know oiling it down sure seems
to keep the corrosion off it.....

Hmmm   Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip & Joyce Higginbotham" <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
To: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Painting blocks


> Hi Jim,
> We do......it also makes the block easier to clean......
>
> Happy New Year
> Skip
>
>
> At 05:30 PM 12/31/00 , you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >     Do we still paint the inside surfaces of our cast iron blocks to
assist
> >oil drainback? Or is this something else that has become obsolete since I
> >last built an engine?
> >Jim in Palmdale where its 55 in the shop and paint dries real slow

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