I wanted to make a reassembly thread and I guess this is sort of the start of it. I received the rest of my parts and proceeded to put the valves back in the head, that all went well. Then I set to work cleaning off the top of the block and getting any accumulated crud out of the cylinders etc.
Then I removed the manifold which was still attached to the tail pipe because of rusted nuts. When I got it off it felt kind of loose. The intake section where it mounts to the exhaust section was broken on one side, looks like the casting let go eons ago. Well because I just can't leave well enough alone I figured the only way to get in there and fix it was to break the other side so I can get in and clean up the area and find someone who can weld cast............so here's where it is.
And here's a pile of crud I scraped off the front of the engine.
And the reassembled head.
Then I removed the manifold which was still attached to the tail pipe because of rusted nuts. When I got it off it felt kind of loose. The intake section where it mounts to the exhaust section was broken on one side, looks like the casting let go eons ago. Well because I just can't leave well enough alone I figured the only way to get in there and fix it was to break the other side so I can get in and clean up the area and find someone who can weld cast............so here's where it is.
And here's a pile of crud I scraped off the front of the engine.
And the reassembled head.