Posted by Sherman in Idaho [72.47.153.105] on Friday, December 27, 2013 at 21:23:40 :
In Reply to: does not matter too much posted by Bruce in BC [24.207.104.208] on Friday, December 27, 2013 at 21:20:26 :
Does anything really stick once it's had oil in it, soaking into all the pores for 50 years? I paint the insides of gearboxes sometimes, but I don't know that it really does any good. At this point it's either sealed or not based on whatever they painted it with at the factory. Maybe if you not-tanked it and then baked it red-hot to burn all the paint off it would be possible to get new paint to soak in and seal it.