konakat

Soak it in gasoline? I've always found plyhammer to have great prices on used parts. He has an intake with throttle for $40.

Dougs951S

Naw, more trouble than it's worth (soaking the intake that is, plyhammer is great!). Picked up a used intake for 40 bucks online.

Feast your eyes on the carnage!

This is the plenum with the TB removed.






This is the head after I wire wheeled the combustion chambers and valve faces.






There is still a lot of carbon inside the ports, I scraped off what I could but I'm still debating sending the head off to be hot tanked. Kinda goes against this being a zero-budget rebuild though. In all likelyhood it will go back on as it, it ran before and it will run again, even betterer-er.

Tiger03447

Dear Doug..Glad that you've resolved the problem. Good thing you have an extra cam tower. As far as the intake goes, you probably did the right thing..If the "new" one you get is in about the same shape, soak them and then get them beadblasted inside and out..then clean them some more with brake cleaner to rinse them out or just put them in the dishwasher. Joeystanker used oven cleaner on his and the lye cleaned them right up, just don't leave it on too long..keep us posted on the vacuum evap line delete. Intend to do the same with mine..just to "clean' things up a bit..glad the Irwin gripper tool worked out good for you.