Any lazy arse tricks such as soak in keep for a week etc?

 

I hate cleaning these the usual way. Just stripping an ea81 from late 83, yet to hit 150 k km but sitting not good for it. Gonna split block and check rings

 

Three bent push rods for starters coz so.done tried to run it on ten year old fuel!,

Keep? I said K E R O !!

kero is slow, safe solvent.

 

Gaskets, I usually just use one of those single edge razor blade scrapers.

course wire wheel in a drill makes short work of it.

 

Don't use a cork gasket just reseal with "the RIght Stuff" RTV or equivalent Firm rubber curing RTV.

My method over the years has been the combination of both suggestions, thanks gents. I also found the EA82 cam box sealant groove is beased cleaned up by soaking it in a thin pool of degreaser or kero, turps is good too

 

I used t use silicone sealnts for sumps but found I m usually the next poor bugger to pull sump or rocker cover off next time around - I wanna be able to get them off without severe distortion :D  Wasn't exactly RTV automotive, more "smuggled out of the joinery in the lunchbox"glazing silicone.

Had a guy doing that from our coin mint here, raised a few suspicions in a town cashing in shiny gold con for notes. Think the Monday at the bank was a few traders raising concerns this guy wearing Royal Australan Mint T shirt was up to no good. Cops soon found over 100,000 in $2 coins at his mums place, according to legend. He served time for that brilliant effort

Edited January 26, 20188 yr by jono

soaked about two weeks upside down in a shallow bath of neat car wash detergent, softened stuff up nicely to assist a bench grinder wire wheel to buzz the dampened cork gasket off in just a few easy minutes. Best method ever, saved the fingers, no sharp blades or tools. Next one gona be the same