Got most of the gunk off the engine today. Just need to figure out how to pull the timing cover tomorrow to finish up and paint the block. After that, it’s ready to go in.
Driver side after scraping and starting to hit it with the die-grinder loaded up with buffing cookies.Here’s the passenger side before getting started. I have new headers, so these exhaust manifolds are going to the metal recycler (along with the ones from the Mustang). Someone decided a mechanical oil pressure gauge would be a good idea… and they’re not bad… right up to the point they start leaking and the nylon hose goes brittle and cracks. That explains all the gunk on the transmission and transfer case.Here we are [almost] all cleaned up. Just gotta get that timing cover (along with the oil pump, distributor, harmonic balancer, and water pump) off tomorrow to finish up and paint.
