Ok, well,... here where I stand. I cleaned and resealed my oil cooler. I boiled the housing tha the exchanger and that cleaned it up and out REAL good!!! All of this crap came out of the exchanger. If I could boil all my parts I would
Anyways, my oil cooler is the CLEANEST parts on my engine right now. I oiled the cylinder walls and cranked the engine by hand a couple of time to lube the walls up real good. I cleaned the mating surfaces off real good then placed the head gasket down. I cranked the head down in sequence from in to out using the 3 stage method,...
1st: 20nm
2nd: 90deg
3rd: 90deg
All is good right now. I bought a new oil filter and copper single tip OEM plugs for the car. I have to install the starter too. Keep you posted.