Meat of the Matter

Kids,

The next day the fun began...

Off with the valve covers!!

Yep,
pleanty of moisture here,
but why won't it turn over??

Let's investigate further...

If you look real close on Number 6,
you can see the top spark plug hole is completely plugged.

No pun intended...

Perhaps the whole cylinder is full of stuff??

Who knows??

So, off with the heads!!

Although carboned up to varying degrees,
none of the cylinders were plugged or gaulded.

Check out Number 6, it was the worst.

Looks like oil was seeping in through the Head Gasket
and caused the plugs to load up with carbon.

Thus,
the miss earlier in the day.

Here are the Heads just like they came off.

They had to be milled approx .0012.

You can see where they leaked on 1,2,3,& 6.

This is the Head Gasket from cylinders 1-3
in comparison with a new one.

See the bleed
and cross talk between cylinders?

Could this be from improper torque on the Heads??

Perhaps,
but still nothing definitive.

Why it won't turn over???

So, nothing left but the
"Meat of the Matter"

There are 36 bolts in all,
15 on a side,
2 in the back and 4 across the front,
plus 3 on a small inspection plate on the bell housing.

Took them all out and nothing...

The pan wouldn't budge.

We tried everything short of C4.

Finally, Ty, the Head Mechanic got out his air chisle.

Still the pan wouldn't break from the block.

He sharpened the end to a thin point
and still you couldn't even get it to go in.

What to do, what to do??

"Gas Wrench".

Twenty minutes later, still nothing...

I got desperate and called several Waukesha dealers.

Was I stupid, (don't answer that)
or was this thing just being a "Bear".

One thing led to another
and I finally ended up on the phone
with the Factory Service Manager
for Waukesha Engine in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

After all those conversations,
I went back and tried one last time.

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!!

Well,
there it was,
Number 4 Main was dry.

The cap came off OK,
but the bearing was gauled to the Crank.

There's that air chisle again...

Wouldn't come off with out it...hard to believe.

Cory, one the mechanics steam cleaning the pan.

Allen, another of the fine mechanics holds the Oil Screen.

Can you see the blockage???

Unfortunately,
it found the parts washer before I could snap its photo,
but it was heavily empackeded and sucked in a little
from the vacuum of the oil pump
desparately trying to oil the bearings.

Here is whats left of Number 4 Main
and the Oil Pump Sump uncleaned.

While it was plugged with sludge,
there weren't any metal fragments in the pan or on the screens.

All the other Main bearings
seemed to have normal wear for being 35 years old,

Number 4 Rod showed the most wear,
but the others seemed fine.

Here it is with the Cylinder Sleeve.

Apparently, the O-Rings were the culpret,
and everything else evolved from here.

The block sealer I put in over the course of the trip
must have finally reached it's limit.

Time to "Pay the Piper".

Here's 4, 5 and 6 in all their Glory!!

Whew,
I'm wore out.

How about you??

Time to call it quits for the day,
so off to Grandmother's House we go...

Well maybe...

Seems like "Mother Nature" has a sense of Humor as well.

It was snowing...

My loaner from Dean's Automotive.

Next up Chapter 63,
The Golden Spike, Revisited.

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