Neanderpundit

OK, Hale asked for pics. Here’s where you start, lining up the timing marks, here with a pin to make sure the cam is at TDC

As per usual, click to embiggenate.

Next, remove all these vacuuum lines

And these.

Oh, and once you have that stuff all apart, don’t forget about these.

Two or three days of that, and a lot of bleeding, and some real pain, and you’ll get here.

After a lot of scrubbing of the engine block with stones, and cleaning the pistons, and carefully assembling all the things that could be assembled, you end up with this.

Now you’re nearly done. All you have to do is install the intake manifold, the fuel injectors, the fuel rail, the pulleys, belts, hoses, distributor, cap, rotor, plugs, gaskets, seals, exhaust manifold, gaskets, seals, wires, vacuum lines, gas lines, overflow lines, covers, brackets, spacers, smpers, and finally the vermicious knid.

Took a while, but it’s all in there, an hour or so at a time over the week before last (Once I finally got the damned head). And now it’s passed emissions, and I think I’m gonna give it a new thermostat just on principle, and then I just have to fix the door wiring so the windows work.

Oy.