Today I find myself at the bottom of the dis-assembly process and hereafter beings the journey toward a clean, brand new engine ready to maniacally head down [hopefully] a good 100k miles of blacktop. After reading about 400 times to clean clean clean, then clean a little more, I first completely cleaned my work bench. Then I spent 5 hours scouring my case halves.
After crossing off soaking for 24 hrs in Dawn, Purple Power (good but not pretty to Alum.), and even the Dishwasher debacle I have found magic in 100% Mineral Spirits and Carb cleaner. The EPA may not be thrilled but I don't plan to do this again for a long long time.
It may not look like it but this is a massive step in the cleaner dimension, I spent 2 hours this afternoon with Purple Power, a couple of wooden scrapers and a couple of stiff brushes knocking chunks upon chunks of greasy crap from my naked engine bay.
What you see here is my wife's fluffy white leetle dog, while she was at the gym the furry kids and not as furry one were outside with me. As I stepped back to admire all of my hard work I watched her stroll by looking like an extra from the 101 Dalmations. A big "oh shit" later and me and said fluffy white dog are entrenched in the shower with copious applications of GoJo. In case you are wondering GoJo does indeed restore black greasy hairy dog back to white fluffy dog. I had her blow dried and brushed before the lady of the house returned :) I did tell her about my mis-adventure because I figured I deserved credit for my efforts at making her fluffy again.
