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<blockquote data-quote="nokas" data-source="post: 593273" data-attributes="member: 23232"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>I was putting a bay back on the road and therefore I had to rebuild the engine. The engine has a new case, pistons, valves , oil pump ....</p><p>The fast "putting back on the road" has now become a full resto. Sounds familiar?</p><p>That means that the engine will be on the shelf for another 2-3 years.</p><p></p><p>What would be the best thing to do to preserve the engine?</p><p></p><p>Some say that manually turning the engine from time to time is enough, others say that it's better to let it run every 6 months.</p><p></p><p>The engine is bolted together with the gearbox and mounted on a dolly, so letting the engine run is possible. However the fresh engine has only run once for 20 min at raised rpm (as the book "how to rebuild your vw engine" suggests ). As the engine is at the moment not fully ran in, I'm afraid letting it run from time to time will do no good. Maybe it will make the engine "lazy"?</p><p></p><p>What would be the best thing to do?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nokas, post: 593273, member: 23232"] Hello, I was putting a bay back on the road and therefore I had to rebuild the engine. The engine has a new case, pistons, valves , oil pump .... The fast "putting back on the road" has now become a full resto. Sounds familiar? That means that the engine will be on the shelf for another 2-3 years. What would be the best thing to do to preserve the engine? Some say that manually turning the engine from time to time is enough, others say that it's better to let it run every 6 months. The engine is bolted together with the gearbox and mounted on a dolly, so letting the engine run is possible. However the fresh engine has only run once for 20 min at raised rpm (as the book "how to rebuild your vw engine" suggests ). As the engine is at the moment not fully ran in, I'm afraid letting it run from time to time will do no good. Maybe it will make the engine "lazy"? What would be the best thing to do? [/QUOTE]
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