First things first, time to drop the pistons and clean them. The picture on the right is one of the cleaned pistons and one of the ones I just took out of the engine and hasn't been touched. It took about 30 minutes per piston to clean the head, clean the slots for the rings to go into, and run through the solvent tank and pressure washer. The finished product came out pretty freakin clean though!
The side view shows the three ring slots cleaned out and the rest of the oil cleaned off the rest of the piston. All 6 pistons were cleaned and ready for new rings and bearings. Then its back in the cylinders they go!
Now with the pistons clean it was time to strip paing and clean the oil pan and engine block. We started first with the oil pan. Once the paint was stripped, my buddy Ho (josue) went to work on it for a couple hours sanding the surface rust off of it. While he did that, I was doing the same with the engine block. When they were both cleaned up and ready to go, we loaded everything back into the truck and took it back up to my grandpa's shop to be reassembled and painted.
Paint removed but surface rust still needed to come off!
Paint and rust both removed and was ready for assembly and paint!
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