I have a new 3W-157. The plane will not be here for few months, and I need to sore me engine. Here is what I did--please let me know if I missed anything.

I put a tablespoon of 2-cycle oil into the spark plug holes, rotated is few times to coat everything and put the plugs back; attached headers and sealed all orifices (exhaust and intake) with plastic bags and scotch tape. I also put a piece of gas line on all carb tubes and plugged the holes to make everything airtight.

Engine is stored indoors in a dark place at room temperature.

Am I forgettign anyhting?

Thanks

You are good till the wife or girl friend decides on having a yard sale. Store it out in the open where you can keep an eye on it. Evan better yet send it up here where it's a lot drier.

Agreed. But DO watch out for that yard sale. Especially if she has found out what the engine set you back and wants to do some revenge spending... My house has a lower density altitude than Altavillan's. Sending it here would be a better option...for me

Thanks guys. Fortunately, a yard sale is unlikely--engine is in my workshop's closet. After a aouple of 'incidents' with a power tool and a battery short (no fire, thankfully) my better half is basically scared to go there .

Let u sknow how you set that up to where damage was minimal and still worked well enough to scare her away from the shop. I need somthing better than the 10 rattlenakes I had loose in mine... She scared 9 of them stiff into rigor mortis the other day Only one left and he's doing poorly.

They're usually much more afraid of spiders than snakes....

No fear, she owns a pet sitting business and nothing gets turned away. Ceptin' the husband

Try shaving less often. Makes ya look rough around the edges, and if ya batt your eyes just right--sometimes can evoke sympathy and TLC.

It was luck-can't take the credit for it . She was (allegedly) looking for a tool, stepped on a 3S Li-Po that was charging on the floor in a ceramic bowl, ripped it off from the charger (leaving the plug in the charger!!!) and kicked the battery rolling. In the process, it shortened the newly-exposed wires on something and created quite a spectacular lightning bolt in a dark closet. Lot's of noise, too. Fortunately, the battery kept rolling and the short was momentary.

To this day, I do not know what she was looking for and why the light was out in the closet.... In any case. I spent the first 10 minutes explainign that this was not a booby-trap designed to keep her out and the secont 10 minutes giving a gentle but firm lecture on how it may be imprudent to mess with things that can cause fire.

Worked so far....

Oh, and the battery is still operational...

I'll have to try that... The looking around in the dark part was troubling.