Today i decided to start work on freeing up and getting the banger going.
I drained the oil, which was just like doing a regular oil change. After years of sitting, the oil was sludge free, and flowed out real nice. I was expecting it to be thick and ugly.
No real dramas, just had to shoot out and borrow a thin wall half inch socket for the rear 2 sump bolts, and one turned out to be 7/16.
Once i had sump off, i got a wee surprise.
Then i took the water inlet off side of block, and found mice or something had dragged leaves and stuff into the water system.
I cleaned that out, then got happy with the wire wheel.
It feels great to finally be getting into the engine.