Yeah, I have no patience. I have an excuse, I want to reduce the weight on that engine stand by getting the intake and heads off of it. But that means it needs to be mostly disassembled. I'm sure by that point I'll want to take the short block apart, too, but I'm going to try to resist the urge, the heads and intake look like enough work to clean up at this point anyway.
Took some more stuff off of the intake manifold... and I wanted a reference shot before I went further.
This was supposed to be a shot of that bracket in the foreground right behind the oil dipstick so I know what it is and where it was before I took it off... then I didn't take it off yet anyway.
Cleaned up the distributor contact and marked it with a little 'chisel' (aka: regular screwdriver...)
Here's the carburetor.
Here's where the distributor used to be. I get it now (how it connects with the camshaft and everything)
Distributor and mounting bracket with bolt.
Lookee here! The intake manifold! It's filthy! That must mean that the engine's 'open'... I'm very excited.
Look at that! Camshaft, pushrods, intake ports on heads, water jacket holes... um... is that hole in the middle supposed to be packed solid?
Close-up... this doesn't look good... something tells me there were some cooling issues, possibly the reason why the freeze plugs blew out? I hope nothing's cracked.
This is the opposite-side port. Looks better.
I'm going to chip away at those deposits with a screwdriver and hope that they can be cleaned. I haven't even looked in the intake port yet, I got called back in the house to herd toddlers. At least none of the pushrods look bent or anything, right? Next step: more cleaning and getting into the heads...
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