Tips on storing used parts

[AngM018]

Hello gentleman,

I was wondering if anyone had any tips or tricks on storing original used parts. I just finished swapping out a bunch of parts for their performance counterparts, but I don't want the original parts for the car to get corroded.

I'll be taking everything to the beach house for storage so it will be in a salt air environment.

Some items I will be storing,

P's and C's
Oil lines,
Cams,
Turbo,
Headers,
gears,
a few other random metal items.

[304065]

1) transparent blue plastic bags that emit an anticorrosion coating.

2) Spray-on rust inhibitors in varying strengths, ranging from LPS all the way through cosmoline.

3) Dessicant packs.

All of the above available from McMaster-Carr.

For my engine rebuild I am coating everything with Aeroshell Fluid 2F which is an anticorrosion aviation oil.

[RWebb]

"beach house for storage"

- worst thing you can do! try hard to avoid that

besides above, keep in a place that is warmer than the outside environment -- use a light bulb in a cardboard box if you need to warm things up a bit.

keep off concrete floors

[Bill Douglas]

I live in a beach house, about 50 meters from hard breaking surf. So does the 911. I don't really have any rust problems withe the Porsche and it's spare parts. I've got most of the good bits from a spare parts 911 thrown in a pile in the attic and they are keeping well. But lesser beasts such as the various Corollas are rusting badly.

[Tspringer]

Pile all the parts into cardboard boxes. Store the boxes in the basement. As you collect more parts, repeat.

Eventually the wife will complain about all the parts. You will open the boxes, looks at all the nasty, greasy parts and ponder on exactly what most of them are. Then you will take them to the dump.

Later, you will see most of the same parts advertised online for absurd prices. You will biitch at the wife about how its all her fault you are not reaping a huge financial windfall because you tossed all the valuable parts you had collected at her demand. She will ignore you. You may not get sex for a week or so.

Even later, you will find yourself in desperate need of some strange part that your positive you used to have 2 of stored in a cardboard box in the basement but you tossed it out. You will fork over $$$$ to buy said part from someone online. You will not mention any of this to the wife.

YMMV

[AngM018]

Originally Posted by john_cramer

1) transparent blue plastic bags that emit an anticorrosion coating.

2) Spray-on rust inhibitors in varying strengths, ranging from LPS all the way through cosmoline.

3) Dessicant packs.

All of the above available from McMaster-Carr.

For my engine rebuild I am coating everything with Aeroshell Fluid 2F which is an anticorrosion aviation oil.

Definately had to go to the dictionary for that one John hahaha. Thanks, I will have to check it out since I want to go over the top on this since these parts are original to the car, and this car has been in the family since new.

[AngM018]

Originally Posted by RWebb

"beach house for storage"

- worst thing you can do! try hard to avoid that

besides above, keep in a place that is warmer than the outside environment -- use a light bulb in a cardboard box if you need to warm things up a bit.

keep off concrete floors

Its the only thing I can do. I have a brownstone with a two car garage, that barely fits two cars. At least at the beach house I can store the parts in doors which has the temp controlled at 80 degrees.

[tom1394racing]

Spray with Gibbs!!

[RWebb]

"in doors which has the temp controlled at 80 degrees"

Indoors is fine; shoot for temp = 70 oF

if it has a/c that is great b/c it will remove humidity from the air -- coat it all with the gunk John Cramer mentioned. Choose which product based on storage time, cost of part, & your paranoia level.