7 of 8 cylinder walls look excellent. Still nice cross hatching and no ridge at all. The front cylinder on the drivers side has about 6 or 8 vertical scores on the bottom side of the cylinder wall. Just enough to feel with your fingernail, but definitely there. Still good crosshatching and no ridge.
Would this be a sign of anything significant? I'd hate to have to pull the bottom half of this engine apart now...
Didn't notice this until today because I haven't turned the crank until today.
Thoughts?
I guess I could pull the pan and release that one rod cap and pull the piston out the top if I had to...
Take a pic of the hole at this point most of the stuff your over thinking it. If you go about the flushing and removing bottom mid and lower pans. You will need a lower gasket kit 8 flywheel bolts and 2 rod bolts. To remove a rod both the mid and lower pan needs removed. And the flywheel has to come off to remove the mid pan.
A shop vac ran across the top of the cylinder surface will remove what's needed. Also small scratches in the wall up and down has been seen in other jobs. Will not hurt anything if they were the other way they could catch the rings.
The motor is already out sitting on a stand. I'm going to pull the pan in the morning and get that piston outa there and make decisions from there.
Shop manual says to discard the block, but they can kiss my butt. I'll re-ring or swap a piston if I have to but the motor is going back together mostly as is. I just want to prevent any further damage.
I'll probably post more pics in the morning.
Football!
Chrome socket(17mm I think) ground down and you can keep the flex plate on the motor. Hidden bolts inside the lower pan so both have to come off seperatly.
Great Tip!
Worked like a champ!
Jim