[VintageLambo] Re: winter idling

Excellent points Aaron.So good, in fact, that I added this thread to the files. I"m wondering if some of this has to do with where you live.When I was a kid, we had motorcycle after motorcycle, and car after car (like everybody else here, I"m sure).What we found is that if you let a motor sit for a while -- certainly a year -- you"d start getting rust where the rings contacted the bore.You"ve got basically a spring pressing against the cylinder, no wonder the oil is squeezed out and any moisture is allowed to do its thing.(I"m sure the same thing happens between the cam and lifters…) It was so bad that we had a motorcycle finally just freeze up. Couldn"t turn it over no matter what we tried.The rings had rusted against the bore and we ended up having to rebore, oversized pistons, new rings, etc. What we learned from that was that we need to turn over our motors every once in a while, and never had the problem again.Obviously, this was just one "rust-related" incident, there were others.But that was the most costly one.And certainly the rust started well before the motor actually froze up! Now, we did live in Monterey, near the Pacific Ocean.Also, one of the fog-capitals of the world...LA was much better (and I lived further from the ocean).But I think Monterey is were I picked up turning the motor over when not using the machine. I wonder if there would be any benefit to turning the motor over without starting the car during "multiple-month, winter storage?" Cheers, Fred