[Larry Hill]

Block is cleaned well enough to take to the machine shop next week to be honed. The manes are installed with protector bearings and torqued. Honing plates and gaskets are installed and torqued. It has taking a while to get the gaskets to be large enough to go to the next size overbore if it is necessary. A steel gasket hanging in the bore will eat up a set of stones.

Most if not all machine shops appreciate receiving relatively clean stuff and sometimes you can save some money by cleaning it yourself.

Time to clean up my shop its a wreck.