It’s getting cold out and I am too lazy to clean the wood stove chimney in the shop so I fired up the old kerosine heater.
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To clean up the old gasket material from the timing plate block side, I used my razor blade and scraped all big pieces of the old gasket off without scratching the surface. Next I used a 120 grit Roloc disk. It felt more like 200 grit. Before doing any work on it, I put a paper towel down and shaped it like a bowl so it would collect any debris preventing chunks falling into the oil pan.
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I used the scotch pad to clean areas that the roloc disk was not able to get to.
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With the small wire wheel I cleaned every hole until all material was out of the threads. Taking note of which holes went all the way threw to the coolant ports.
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Using the shop vac and bigger wire brush, I then cleaned the excessive gasket material from the coolant holes.
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Then wiped away all oils, dirt and material with a paper towel soaked in brake cleaner.
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