Work continues...

We have been busy disassembling the engine, cleaning parts, and painting parts. The dismantling was fairly straight forward, with many pictures along the way to ensure we had a reference for the re-assembly. Most parts were cleaned on the wire wheel to remove rust, washed in the varsol tank, dried, and painted. It has been a few parts each night, but most of the direct engine ones are done.

Removing the external parts, like the engine mounts, water pump, valve cover are required but not really that exciting for the boys. When we removed the cylinder head, the timing chain and sprockets, then the cam, they started to appreciate what went on in the engine. The big moment was pulling off the oil pan, removing each piston/connecting rod assembly, and finally removing the crankshaft.

You can see in the photos the parts that are all set to go to the machine shop: the engine block, crankshaft, cam shaft (hidden in the red rag), cylinder head, oil pump, rocker arms, lifters and push rods. The machine shop will hot tank most parts (very good cleaning) then measure everything to determine what needs to be machined and what can be reused. The pistons are very worn so the block will need to be bored 0.010" or 0.020" oversized. The crank looks very good so may only need to be polished. The cam is 50/50, but the rockers, lifters, and push rods all look good. The head will be disassembled, 3 angle valve job, new valve seals, and reassembled. Our list of "other" parts is still relatively small which is nice.