A good friend of mine bought a 1960 "dirty garage find" that has not been on the road since 1985. In the course of trying to get it running, we ran into some difficulties. The first being that it was impossible to turn the engine over by hand. The cylinders were soaked with lubricant, rocker arms loosened, but still we were unable to turn it with the flywheel wrench. Figuring that the cylinder walls were rusted, we decided to pull the engine today. Sure enough the cylinders are rusted preventing the pistons from moving.
Upon closer inspection of a few of the cylinders, there appears to be deeper areas of rust, about the size of a nickel, that line up with where the cylinder head bolts are.
Attached are pics of cylinders 1 and 3. You can see the heavier rust areas in cylinder 1, but in cylinder 3 the area is silver, not rusted.
What would cause this to happen? More importantly, do you think this is something that can be cleaned up with just boring the cylinders?
Thanks,
Tom

Upon closer inspection of a few of the cylinders, there appears to be deeper areas of rust, about the size of a nickel, that line up with where the cylinder head bolts are.
Attached are pics of cylinders 1 and 3. You can see the heavier rust areas in cylinder 1, but in cylinder 3 the area is silver, not rusted.
What would cause this to happen? More importantly, do you think this is something that can be cleaned up with just boring the cylinders?
Thanks,
Tom


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