Neither Joe. For years I had almost the whole engine covered in Fishoilene. (A fish-oil-based anti-corrosive paint that tends to remain tacky rather than set.) That kept it free from corrosion but it looked ugly because old fishoilene tends to go black in colour. So recently I s-c-r-a-p-e-d all the fishoilene off the rocker cover (with the blade of a pocket knife) and just sprayed a bit of lanolin on it. (Removing the fishoilene revealed clean uncorroded aluminium.)
I now use lanolin on it becau
Thanks Mudstorm. But bear in mind that I tend to show only the areas that I've finished working on recently. (Some areas still look very bad and I don't show-off those.)