Engine Clean-up
With most works coming to a halt due to waiting for parts, we decided to spend some time cleaning up the engine and gear box. Dad had spent some time on the engine already. Today, I started with cleaning the gear box. To get the bulk of grease, oil and dirt off, we were using a small baby bath with a bottle of kerosene tipped in. The kerosene was doing a good job on getting all of the muck to move off.
Once the bulk of the dirt was removed, we turned to some strong chemicals. We used aluminium cleaner on the gearbox and head of the engine. This cleaned up the aluminium really well. The engine was still a bit grotty, so we hit it with degreaser again, letting it soak in for a long time. With the final rinse, the engine looks a million bucks. I have decided not to paint the block as now that it is clean, it doesn’t look all that bad.
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- Gearbox all cleaned up
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- Engine looking very clean
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- Cleaned up engine and gearbox