Welcome to the valley! Nothing jumps out at me as being overly concerning other than the specs of dirt that I keep finding every time I remove something. But everything else looks OK to my eye.





Every time I pull off a gasket or bolt it either disintegrates or is rusty as heck. I put a couple of these bolts and the Ford sign in a CLR bath to see if that will help bring them back to life.






The headers are now also off. I needed to take these off to make it easier to wrap my straps around the engine for listing it with the hoist


Next up, use my engine hoist to slightly lift the engine and remove all the clutch components. From there it will go up on the engine stand and I will continue the tear down. I will also check the CLR bath. If that seems to be working OK, I will order a bunch more of it and start cleaning up these bolts and components because *everything* on this engine is rusty!