Re: Foggin Question
I have been working farm equipment repair for years. We always fog the irrigation engines at the end of the season. Most of these engines were Ford or GM 6 cylinders, a few Chevy 454, and Alice Chalmers 6 cylinders. When I fog them I always used either engine oil or irrigation drip oil. Drip oil is the same as engine oil, just thinner. I had a dish soap bottle and usually would squeeze a squirt into the carb until it either smokes heavily or choked and died. A few engines I did not get a very heavy blue smoke, so I would crack a vacuum line and hook that to my bottle. This would suck oil into the engine. <br />The ideal situation to prevent corrosion would be to tear the enine apart and coat everything with heavy lithium greese. This would be overkill and the cost would be outragous.<br />You can get by witout fogging an engine, but it will last a lot longer if you do fog. The key is to get enough into the engine to make it smoke for 10 seconds or so. Second choice is put into cylinders and rotate engine.<br />In the spring I would sometimes take the distributor out and prime the oil pump before cranking. This is not necessary, but also helps reduce wear during the first 10 seconds of running.
