Guys,
As you know the silver VR-4 is now off the road. Due to the ramping up of the workload and tempo at work I am finding it extremely hard to find the time to even investigate the gearbox issue let alone get the engine and gearbox swapped from the purple one.
Due to the above I am looking at making the difficult decision of stripping the purple one and scrapping the shell and storing the engine and gearbox and storing the silver one as a whole until such a time that I can devote the amount of time needed to get it back on the road.
I am after some advice on storage.
A) Storing the car as a whole. Obviously better off out of the elements. Is there anything I can do before hand to prep the bodywork/underside from rust etc?
B) Once the car is stored should I start her up every now and then? If so at what sort of intervals? I will remove pads and discs so they do not seize but is there anything else that I need to stop from seizing other than engine.
C) 1 engine will be stored inside the car and the other will be stored outside of the car but in garage. Is there anything I can do to prep the engine for storage? Change oil etc?
D) Once the engine is stored outside of the vehicle what can I do to stop it from seizing? Manually crank it every now and then?
I am probably looking at storing for at least 6 months but could be even longer.
I appreciate some of this will seem like stupid questions to some people but I genuinely have no idea on this subject so any help/advice will be much appreciated.
Also does anyone know how I can go about hiring storage space/garage for a car. I have found a couple of council sites that you can hire them from but they are in extremely dodgy areas that I wouldnt trust.