I bought that scraper cheap... but it was laser cut to fit an FE with 3.98 stroke crank...
I actually thought, initially; oh well, what the heck...it won't hurt to have it in there...
like mentioned before, probably the warping of the stock steel pan did push it more towards the crank...

I used the compressor today to see what came out...just oil...and both at the rockershaft and main and rod bearings it seeped thrue...so it seems to be both clean, open and waterfree...

at first run-in a waterhose blew, soaking the engine in coolant and I have strong indications it seeped down thrue the distributershaft...
I know for a fact it isn't the heads or cilinderwalls, otherwise I would have seen a white cloud coming out of the exhaust!

I will make a second "no guts no glory" - vid when ready again!
Same goes for the c6 transmission, wich is up next, but that's not even taken apart so it will take a while, before my personal "soapseries" will have its third episode

Tom