Degreasing, wire wheels, and media blasting was my even chore for a while to get things ready for paint.

The manifolds look nice and clean making the throttle linkages look yucky, gross, greasy, sticky, unpleasant, just generally sad.

The oil pan seal was next up for replacement. The oil pan also had a lot of burnt on sludge inside and worn out paint on the outside.

The head of the engine was a victim of serveral stripped out threads. It was also covered in burnt on oil around the rockers and valves. Pulling the head to get it on the workbench was by best option to get everything cleaned up.