Good idea ... not something I'd thought of.

Right. My other half is working away from home today, so I've taken the opportunity to get the engine in the house and build it up in the (comparative) warm and dry. I've helicoiled a new thread for one of the manifold studs, changed the rubber cowling for tin and put a Dyane fan cowling on it. It's all ready to drop back in now.
Before it goes in though, I'm going to bleed the brakes, since the bleed nipples are easier to get to with no engine. And I can't do that until Ms RT returns, unless I can find my easibleed kit (unlikely). So it looks like she's going to catch me with the engine on the dining room table after all ...

RT,
if you can't find somewhere outside to hide the engine, maybe do the dishes and a bit of hoovering to avoid penance?

ken
( I once got caught with a couple of cylinder heads in the oven, there was hell to pay...)

I've tried to explain before now that putting distributor caps and plug leads in the dishwasher cures misfires and consequently saves money by not needing new parts. Either my powers of persusion are failing or there is a simple refusal to listen to reason........

ken at least you werent baking cakes

or cleaning part of the engine in the dish washer with her favourtie plate

I tend to find that sort of thing isn't *directly* a problem (although turning the washing up brush black is never too popular). It's just that everything else I do that day will be wrong!

Did somebody mention 'engine in the dishwasher'?

with women, always take the blame, as its going to be your fault in the end, so you may as well get it over and done with!

i love it!!! but seriously, how does the bottom water blade get to spin around with an engine sat on it.....

like the way the cutlery baskets is being put to full use for the 'ancillaries'

i'm guessing this is a special engine dishwasher??? when a man 'helpfully suggests' a new dishwasher for actual dishes would be a good buy for the wife / girlfriend...

has lenny cut all the bits where the plates sit etc, this woule allow the engine to go through succesfully!!

i could take an old engien into work and use the industrial dishwasher (2 minmute cycle!) and do it about 100 times over but i dont think it would go down well!!