True story...many many years ago, when I was a young man and before the M.O.T. had even been thought of, my mate bought an old Austin 10 for about 25 quid. Only problem was it burnt a little oil..about 2 pints every 300 miles (Greenpeace hadn't been even thought of). We decided to pull the engine out to fit new Cord's rings and replace the crank bearings. The engine was a bit ****ty, so after we pulled it out, using a washing line, we carried it in the house whilst his Ma was at work, put a bit of old carpet in the bath and placed the engine on it. Gave it a good dosing of Gunk and washed it off. You can imagine the state of the bath afterwards!! Managed to clean up and his Ma came home about 30 minutes later and was none the wiser. The secret was kept for about 20 years before we told her. What she didn't know was that the engine was stripped and rebuilt on her kitchen table with a bowl of paraffin on the floor to clean the bits in whilst she was out of the house. She used to say "What's that smell" when she came back, but never twigged it!
Wished we had showers in those days, it would have made things much easier to shift the muck.:violin::mil77: