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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wateka" data-source="post: 125337" data-attributes="member: 21519"><p>Amen to that, and don't just throw out all the dirt you dig out from there. When I picked up my 853, there were some old beer cans floating in that same oily water pond you have. I ended up with three 5-gallon buckets full of dirt that I poured diesel in to make some kind of stirrable slurry. I then was able to fish out a gallon buckets worth of bolts, nuts, and random parts that helped solve some missing parts mysteries later on.  I bought my 853 in 2022 and the best-by dates on those beer cans I found were from 2012. That, plus the broken camshaft I found when I stripped the engine apart, leads me to believe it had been sitting around inoperable for 10+ years.</p></blockquote><p></p>