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9 T GSX

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Jan 19, 2008
St.Pete, Florida
Don't adjust your volume videos have no sound. You would heard nothing but feet walking on a tarp anyway.. LOL
Anyway I thought I had these sealed and up off the ground enough but it seems that the water from the storm we had last year got higher than I thought. I was looking to use one of these for a build I am planning soon, do you guys think any of these are worth it or they just junk at this point. Was thinking a few time in a hot tank rinse/flush repeat would clean them up to a state where they would be usable?

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Personally, I'd go with sandpaper first. On the mating surfaces just take a 4x8" glass and use 400 grit for the first pass, if it cleans up, you could use 600 and then 1200 to give it a finish. Don't go too crazy on it, 10 passes on a figure 8 motion. Get the ball hone for the cylinders and the good old shoelace trick for the crank.

this is for surface rust only. If you notice that it takes more than 1 pass with the 400 to remove rust off, stop.
 
Electrolysis would take care of the rust.
 
Thanks for the opinions/suggestions, Like I said to me it didn't look too bad too me. Think when I have sometime I will take to a few machine shops and see what they recommend.
 
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