Small engine repair made easy by NATO

"Small engine repair jobs right up to industrial power units, we used it on everything."

My name is Serge Harrison. I've been in the used equipment business for over 30 years. 

Except for a few that either passed away or have gone out of business, we are still dealing with most of the same customers we started with.

Over the years we have specialized in cranes, hoisting engines, construction elevator hoists and big pulling units for river crossings pulling up to 900,000lbs, as well as large Gensets.

When I purchased most of this equipment, it already had been sitting unused in the weather for years, with the engines seized up. Usually the machines were excellent, but their engines were history. Or so it seemed.

The history of Engine Release

This is where the Engine Release story starts. Until he retired, my brother-in-law worked for NATO in Luxemburg. When I met him for the first time, he told me he was a "corrosion engineer". In those days, corrosion meant rust to me!

After I stopped laughing, he explained to me that there were millions of tons of parts, equipment and ammunition stored in warehouses all over Europe waiting for the next war. His job was to supervise the inspection, cleaning and re-packaging and to choose the right preservative system for all of this stuff for continued long-term storage.

I realized this guy might just know what I needed to use to solve the seized engine problems I was encountering. He gave me a recipe to try out before I resorted to more drastic measures.

When I got back from that trip to Europe, it just so happened I bought five Lincoln diesel welders off a barge. They were all powered by GM 2-71 engines, the nicest of which was jammed.

This was the perfect opportunity to try my brother-in-law's concoction. (Naturally it worked, or you wouldn't be reading this…)

To make a long story short, I've used that recipe on and off since 1974. That first machine was used daily for six years after that treatment, in its original condition apart from a couple of injector changes, until I sold it.

During the next 30 years, we used the same formula from time to time to free up big boom pins on derricks, melting hardened grease in bearings and freeing engines of all types that had seized up during storage. With the help of Engine Release, we can get corroded engines going again without taking the whole machine apart. Small engine repair has been quietly revolutionized!

April 2007 was the year we registered the Engine Release trademark and commercialized Engine Release through the Internet. Our first year was full of surprises, all of them pleasant.

Our customers are amazed by the effect a few ounces of Engine Release can have on a classic car project. Boat owners are surprised how easy it is to get their seized engines running after spending a winter in humid storage. Small engine repair doesn't come cheap, and you have a no-lose situation because of our money-back guarantee.