Teardown stage is complete, except for pulling the rockers. The rear engine lift brackets were a bit of a pain, but not as bad as the stubborn plug boots. Everything else came apart cleanly and with out fuss (well not too much)

Now time to clean up and paint some other parts to go back on, change out the plugs while they are so easy to get to, and begin re-assembly. When I lay out the new gaskets tomorrow I'll decide if I'm going to pursue the porting clean-up. If so, I'll do that before installing the new rockers. I grabbed one of the rear view mirrors off of my bicycle (LOL) which is working nicely for looking at the back bank (big help locating the lift bracket bolts)

Teardown so far...


A shot of the old parts pile shows the water pump with the impeller we dont want (good call guys) and the inside of the valve cover which thankfully were not filled with sludge. The Dex which has poured out hasnt looked cloudy and aside from some gunk around the coolant ports, everything else seems fairly clean. Nice to know Bonnie wasnt in critical health before all this began.