The gearbox sump needs powdercoating before, so I wrapped it up in cardboard and pallet wrap to stop schmutz getting in. Kersteman garage would probably just put this back in the car and send it
Cardboard down ready for cleaning the engine
Removed the oil cooler. The pipe was broken of course - split around both o-ring grooves
After cleaning the front of the engine I wrapped the crank sprocket bolt in blue roll and soaked it in Evaporust to clean it up as bit as it was quite rusty. This worked perfectly, but I didn't get an after pic
The sprocket isn't coming off as the seal is fine so no reason to disturb it. This is a very dry engine really.
Flip it over to drop the manifold off underneath so no grit goes down the inlet ports, and then pop the sump off
This is pretty crusty so will also go for powder-coat
Oh hello. Why is a piece of the cam chain tensioner in the sump?
Not bank1...
(quite clean inside given the mileage)
Bank2 upper pad - broken in to about 4 pieces. That's quite a close call! It wouldn't have taken much more running for it to spit this remaining chunk out completely and be running metal on metal.
A few chunks loose in the head
Bottom end cleaned up. Heads and valley tomorrow while the sumps get coated.
