Doing up the sandwich plate and thus the main bearings was very exciting. A first for me. I’ve never been this deep into an engine before. But apparently everything went perfectly. The cylinders on this engine look great, and it appears to have even and normal compression on all 6. So I have high hopes for this one.
I’m swapping over passenger side cam and rocker assembly next, then the other, and last the timing chains and stuff. Everything from the dmc appears to have no visible wear, it was the storage tha killed it. The bent valve remains a mystery still though.
There’s lots and lots of cleaning to do. Slow and boring work, so I try to mix assembly and cleaning 50/50.
To assemble the engine is not that much actual wrenching work, cleaning off old dirt, gasket material and every nut, bolt and washer all adds up. I guess it’ll be another week at least before it’s ready to go back in. No, more. Always more.