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Message: [QUOTE="Matt_P, post: 472296, member: 277"] Well this engine definitely has not wanted to give me any breaks! Literally everything that could be seized in this engine is seized! I spent 5 hours of class today trying to tear everything down, to start with: Getting the injectors out of the head proved to be fun, I bent the **** out of 3 of them trying to get them out so that was fun. After getting the valve springs out, every single exhaust valve was seized in the head. That just took a little persuasion with a hammer and brass chisel. Inside the ports of the valves was a collection of some kind of wood nut, rust and other furry soft things for animals to make homes with LOL under the intake was full of that too. So far I let the head soak in the hot tank for about 45 minutes after that, and tomorrow it will get shot blasted. Now for the engine: Lets see, the two cylinders with rust have the walls so screwed up that those pistons are VERY seized in there. Since I couldnt get the rod bolts out of two of the rods due to their position that made it hard to turn over the engine to get the bolts out of the thrust plate for the cam and in turn I couldnt get the front cover off, so I had no way to get the crank out anyways. So with the persuasion of a torch the thrust plate bolts heads went bye bye, but of course the cam was seized in the bores. That consisted of removing the plug on the back of the block and beating the cam out of the block with a BFH and brass punch. The cam has a couple rusted lobes so thatll need replaced. Gonna need new tappets too cuase those dont look so hot either. Then I got the front cover off, used the hoist to lift the crank out some so I could get to those rod bolts and out came the crank. I ran out of time then so tomorrow will be getting those seized rods and pistons out. All I have to show for this today is a decently swollen left hand thanks to the BFH and my bad aim LOL Here are some pics All the crap that came out the head: [ATTACH=full]96781[/ATTACH] You can see the poor condition of the cam [ATTACH=full]96782[/ATTACH] Little bit of rust down there on the old bearings [ATTACH=full]96783[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]96784[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]