Re: HA's 52 200 Grey Ghost

Posted by Hans Ahlness On 2014/3/10 0:13:46

Mal, part of my problem is that I don't have any water in my workspace, so I guess I have to get it rolling again (with brakes) so I can tow the car over to our shop at work where I can use the pressure washer. But I cut a strip of .020" aluminum and probed around the edges of the water jacket today. The jacket has sticking points along the edges, like it's sort of welded, or more likely crusted, to the block. So I'll cut a longer piece to try to work my way deeper along the edges and get the jacket loose, then it should pull out more easily. Just needs some convincing.

And confirming the sludge in the far end of the jacket has made up my mind to pop out the freeze plugs to more thoroughly clean things out, when I get the car over to the water. But that's not hard so no biggie. I hate to be this far apart and not fix stuff that is easy to get to while I'm here.

So when it gets warmer outside I can quit marking time on tinkering and get some stuff done that is holding up a lot of the other stuff.