[jjeffries]

Doing this from my phone so the layout might not be the best. It appears that my famous guru 911 advisor was right and it’s the rear main seal leaking. I’d installed it when I assembled this engine from the cases up. I’ll also do the oil cooler seals while they’re accessible. Yes, the ones in there are brown.

Other than that things look good, so the main activity is clean, clean clean the motor as it sits and the bits I’ve removed. Fortunately I’m wired to enjoy cleaning car parts, maybe that can be my retirement job. You’ll see I have a proper solvent parts cleaning machine which really is the dog’s ding-dong when you have oily parts in need of a bath. Funny thing nowadays is how ridiculously expensive the solvent is … nuts.

The nice set of Beru braided wires had attracted a fair amount of schmutz so I cleaned those up. The rear tin I will remove the heater hose spigot and weld up the resulting hole, since I’m running SSI M’s and that void is now superfluous. I’ll also check the valve clearances in the spirit of a thorough “engine out major service”.

Cheers, John