Crate engine storage…
 

Some of you may recall, I was having low oil pressure on my 2014 F150. I bought a crate engine late last summer thinking I would install it in this fall. Now, I don’t think I’ll be able to install it until this spring. It’s been sealed in a plastic bag in my garage. I bumped up the RPMs to get a little more oil pressure in the meantime.

Do you think I should pull the plugs, fog the cylinders and rotate it every so often?

How humid is your garage and are you running a dehumidifier?

No dehumidifier or HVAC in the garage.

It’s sealed with a zip tie in a heavy duty clear bag.

Can humidity get through the bag?

Only if it's unusually humid, is it? Otherwise, dry storage should be fine. You want to ideally block off the intake completely to keep humidity and rodents from making it into the snorkel.

I’ll take another look, but I believe the intake ports are blocked off. There is no intake manifold.

With it being the winter season, humidity should be OK….

The H2O (pulled outta the air) totally disappeared a few days ago here ... yer good,!

I'd think you'd be fine just wrapped with the plastic. You could always throw some DampRid packets inside the bag along with the engine.

I would want to know if there is a coating of oil in the bores. There certainly should be some. Can you check reviews or ask the seller? In my mind, you should be fine. Especially in dry winter. But this is a great question to figure out now, before things get a little rusty inside.

Oxygen scrubbers (packets) plus desiccant inside the sealed container

Look up the term "pickle" the engine

It’s a brand new Ford remanufactured engine, I got from a Ford dealer. When I got it, it was sealed in a bag and inside a wooden crate. I removed the crate, to check out the engine and the parts I ordered, that were inside.

I’ll probably pull the plugs, fog some oil in there, and turn it over a few revolutions.

By the way, how do you fog the cylinders?

^^^perfect. No idea.