Robert,
Do you have receipts for the rebuilt? If you do, you can assess if it
really has been rebuilt or just refreshed with some new rings and
bearings.
When I disassembled the used engine I bought to build my 1380 motor, I
found the crank to be .010 under and with a mirror finish. So I guess it
was rebuilt not too long before the car was crashed.
But the engine had been sitting in a guy's garage for years and
unfortunately there was a small speck of rust in the center of the center
main that had eaten fairly deeply into the crank. It was great everywhere
else. The machine shop said this was ok and only polished the crank, the
hole really is very small, but I don't know what would have happened if I
had just run the motor.
The moral is, if you want to be sure, you have to disassemble it.
Ulix
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, robert weeks wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Due to an amazing stroke of luck, and the help of a friend who owns an MGB,
> I have a line on an engine (1275 A) that was rebuilt 3 years ago but never
> run. The owner died shortly after getting it back together and it has since
> sat in someones' backyard, up off the ground, under a plastic tarp. When I
> looked at it a week ago, it had surface rust on the outside and there was
> oil in the engine. I gave a half hearted attempt to try to turn it over but
> the sparkplugs were in and we didn't have the toolbox with us. This engine
> is really cheap, so I'm going to pick it up and try to run it in my car
> while I get my original engine rebuilt. Is there anything I should look out
> for on an engine that has sat outside for so long?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert Weeks
>
> Durham NC
> 1969 Midget
> 1968-70 Abitza
> http://www.woozy.com/midget/
>
>
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