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Originally Posted by GRX
And hope you removed all block plugs so as the clean lobe metal from all the oil galleys. Much work but will save your wallet later on as said.
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Originally Posted by vince1
I did remove the cam bearings and the three screw in plugs at the back end of the galleries. Maybe still do the push in plugs from the front? I've been at it pretty good with engine degreaser and water followed by carb cleaner and compressed air. WD 40 to stop it from rusting. I just bought a cylinder hone so could knock out the front plugs and do another clean after the honing.
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Remove the small front plugs as well. There will be new ones in pretty much any "Freeze Plug" kit you buy. Get yourself a set of long handled engine cleaning brushes and use hot water and dish soap to clean out every oil gallery and nook and cranny.
Use the brushes with soapy water to clean the oil galleries from front to back though the little plug holes. Then rinse the block and oil gallery passages with clean water from a garden hose sprayer, and repeat the process of soapy water... rinse the hell out of that block a couple more times and then blow dry with compressed air.
The you can oil it down once it's completely dry to prevent rusting.
Gary