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25-03-10, 20:38
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38 reasons to seal up stored engines
Started getting ready to run the engine I pulled from my Pattern 13 C60S on the test stand. This is the original engine from the truck that I took out to install a 261 engine. Boy did I get a surprise. When I pulled this 216 engine out I put all the parts back on it to keep all the original parts together. Did the normal bit of pouring oil into each of the cylinders, taped up all the opening, accept one. You guessed it the chipmunks found the one I had forgotten to seal, the exhaust header. The engine had been sitting on one of my engine test stands since it was removed so the exhaust flange was about a foot off the floor but the little stinker climbed up manifold past the manifold heat riser flap and out the exhaust manifold to insert acorns into each of the exhaust valve ports.
During the engine swap I had removed the two piece exhaust manifold to use on the new engine going into the truck. At that time I bolted in its place loosely a standard 216 exhaust manifold with out a gasket. Well to day when I started getting ready to run the engine I unbolted the manifold to insert the gasket and what did I see? Acorns lots of acorns, thirty eight of them in fact stuffed into each exhaust port. Along with the acorns were about two table spoons of Decon mouse and rat poison pellets. The poison may explain why the critter never came back for the acorns. Moral of the story tape up, stuff, cover, or plug any opening into an engine which you intend to reuse or start later.
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Phil Waterman `41 C60L Pattern 12 `42 C60S Radio Pattern 13 `45 HUP http://canadianmilitarypattern.com/ New e-mail Philip@canadianmilitarypattern.com Last edited by Phil Waterman; 26-03-10 at 15:46. Reason: word missing 
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25-03-10, 22:33
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Priceless pictures.....
....all things considered ....I prefer the nuts I got from Australia to yours Phil.......
Boob
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25-03-10, 23:13
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The culprit
D'you reckon it was Chip & Dale? or Mac n' Tosh?
Frustrating for you Phil, I know, but very funny..... 
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25-03-10, 23:48
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Good thing you found them before you cranked up the engine. The engine would have run OK, but there would have been nuts ricocheting all over the workshop!
Rat-a-tat-nuts!
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26-03-10, 15:02
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Phil,
Maybe this where the saying "Revving the Nuts out of it " came from !  Best Regards Keith Last edited by Keith Orpin; 26-03-10 at 15:10.
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26-03-10, 15:45
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Our criters maynot be dangerous
As I said before Chipmunks are rodents with racing strips. They may not be dangerous like some of your Australian critters but they are sure annoying.
They really seam to like exhaust pipes, I've had them fill mufflers with acorns, particularly bad if the muffler baffles are such that they can fill the can with acorns, had a muffler fire that way on my HUP. Now I try to remember particularly in the fall to put a soda can over the end of the pipe when I park the truck. The trucks make such a strange sound when you start with a chipmunk in the pipe. Cheers Phil
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