Fast forward now to 2010 & I walked into the garage one day & whilst looking at the original numbers matching V8 on a stand in the corner I decided that I should strip it down & have it checked over for a nice big HP rebuild..
So I made some space in the garage, broke out the tools & cued the montage music…. Set to breaking it down..
Now if your playing along at home first start with a buggered old V8, next step should be to find someone who knows what they are doing. I skipped that step
Drained the block of all the old crap oil
Remove the rocker covers & discover that Australian spiders will live anywhere… remove the spiders (remembering that most of them can kill you)
Remove the intake manifold...
You don’t have to remove the rockers from the heads obviously, but I had a whole day to kill so everything was coming apart
