Thread: Picked up my Son's engine yesterday.

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Don, congrats on getting the engine pieces back, looks like an engine building party at Don's place soon. I don't want to start a 'best cleaner' on your thread but I'd like to recommend one of my favorites, it's called LA's Totally Awesome. It's a safe to use concentrate that works amazingly well on many surfaces, you won't believe what it does to aluminum parts. I found out about it on an LS1 forum, those guys recommended it for cleaning the gunk off the all aluminum LSx engines. It's very, very cheap to buy, available at most Dollar General stores and these other stores. Try it, you won't be disappointed.

Mike

Thanks, Bob, for that link. I am going to sit down and read it tonight to learn about balancing. Much appreciated.

Mike, HAHA, funny you should mention that Awesum stuff, I have been using it to clean the counters, sinks, and showers at home for a while now. Really good stuff and cheap. I'll have to try it on car parts.

Here are a couple of pictures of Dan's motor. I got it put on an engine stand tonight so we can start scrubbing it next weekend. I looked at the pistons and found where they removed metal from them, the cuts look like a broach or die grinder cut rounded areas from the sides of the pin boss. Some have none removed and some have varying degrees of removal. The engine should be much smoother this time around.

Don