The "mouse piss 360"

I think 69 has a good idea. I've done a bunch of parts in molasses, but never anything with machined surfaces. Get yourself a pail of molasses from the local animal feed store, then a 45 gallon drum and mix up a batch. You can go anywhere from 3:1 to 10:1, water/molasses mix. I usually go 10 parts water to 1 part molasses.
 
im thinking its a good inhouse test for us right?....i mean we dont know what it will do to machines surfaces and that blocks far from savable ..so why not
 
69.5CUDA said:
lol the pics worked that time

wow...that thing is pretty rough...now this pile of parts would make a GREAT test run in molassas
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Test run? I must have missed somthing. Molassas is sweet so I'm sure it will attract rodants. Obviously I've got enough of those!:D

Seriously, tell me more.
 
Stretch said:
Test run? I must have missed something. Molasses is sweet so I'm sure it will attract rodents. Obviously I've got enough of those!:D

Seriously, tell me more.
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Mix up water and molasses into 3:1 or 10:1 mixtures and drop parts in the molasses and leave them there for a little bit and the rust and corrosion in gone. I know sounds hoaky but it works apparently. :D
 
I could drop the block in a mixture of that but I'm pretty sure the lifter vally would disappear.:D
 
I don't think I'd try it until you have access to a hose to clean it off. Sticky stuff, molasses--watered down or not.
 
I got to see this block up-close and personal last night. Stretchy wasn't kidding when he said if he dunked it in molasses, the lifter valley would probably evaporate. The amount of rust is just amazing. He wasn't kidding about pounding that crank out, either. There's no way you could ever get a balancer on it again. The snout is peened over rather nicely, and one of the #3 main bearings is still stuck to it. :doh:

One of my 340s sat outside for about 19 years on its side with a piece of plywood leaned up against it, and one of my 360s sat in the back of my truck for two years, uncovered and with no intake, and both of those blocks were nowhere near this thing. In fact, they're both machined and nearly ready to build.
 
What kind of molasses? This...

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Or???
 
I'm out of the north east for good this time, so I don't need to dip whole bodies. And even though I'm in Texas I still have to drive over an hour to get to a feed store :D
 
It still might be worth it. 20 gallons of it for not much more than you paid for the jar in your hand.
 
Not a clue, but I imagine it probably isn't like the muriatic acid I used to melt the pistons out of my junkyard 340 where I essentially had to hover over it. :doh:
 
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