So what did you do with your truck today?

[The_Josh_Bear]

In a word, yes. I had the heads off a shortblock and I coated down the cylinders with WD-40 until I could get to taking the rest of it apart...

Dumb me...

Once I got it apart and took the old rings off and cleaned the pistons...

To my amazement, shock, and horror...the ring lands were pitted like the surface of the moon...

I could not believe it and kept telling myself that it would 'clean up'...

But, no...

no matter what I did, wished, and hoped and prayed for...they did not get any better...

Those pistons were my treasured 'street and strip' pistons...forged and high compression...my darling baby-dolls....

A buddy of mine wanted them for sentimental reasons...so...I gave them to him...

That was a hard lesson...

I also had a hard lesson about using adequate fasteners...and...about listening to your gut feelings...instead of someone else's opinion...but that is a story for another day...

Anyway...don't mix WD-40 and aluminum for any extended length of time...

That's no good! I've never heard that before. But we could do just fine with regular engine oil, yeah?

 

[Old Goat]

I wonder is something like Kano Kroil would work better.
(Better than WD-40)
I read where mixing Acetone and ATF is the same thing,
though IDK.

Maybe Marvel Mystery Oil would work in a spray bottle.
I pulled a 7.3 out of a 89 at PNP few yrs back. Spend
several days cutting out the accident damage etc...
till the weekend sale. Day before we pulled it, it rained
some and with the air filter off water went into the engine.
I pulled the GP`s and turned her over and she was like a
Rain Bird shootin water.

Got her home and using a meat syringe kept filling each
cylinder with MMO....and turning the engine over. Did this
every few days for a month or so just to be safe.

Finally got my Hotsy hot water pressure washer working, so
next couple days going to roll her out to the shop door and
use the tractor with a chain and take her out for a good washing
to pretty her up, and maybe drop the pan to see what is in there.
Hope PNP drained the oil through the drain plug and not punch
a hole like they usually do.

Goat