I pulled the head off the 235 engine that I picked up about a month ago. As you can see by the pictures, it's pretty ugly. Cylinder #2 is full of water. I dug down to the water and found a disk of rust that likely came off one of the valves. The bits are shown in picture number 2. Cylinders 3 and 4 are just about at TDC, and have some significant crud in them also. Cylinder #1 is dry, but has quite a bit of "sand" in it. No. 2 cylinder walls are pretty barnacled, and there's a pile of crud on top of the piston. The other cylinders have some fine rust on the walls. I drained the water out of all of the cylinders and put some ATF in them, but I doubt that even Carl's "boiling oil" trick will help. I may need to use Jerry's hole saw on the piston crowns to get them out. My plan is to pull the pan and the crank (destroying the cam gear to get the front engine plate off) and work on each cylinder individually. I expect that a few of them can be driven out (likely 3 and 4, being near TDC.) What I want to salvage from this engine is the crank and rods and possibly use them in my 216.
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Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
