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Yeah, I just usually scrape some paint off under the screws.

Really nice work on the wiring. She's coming along

Continuing onward....

My original intention on removing the engine was to just clean things up, replace gaskets, and just do preventative maintenance. Oh how naive I was...

I had expected a 2-3 hour process to pull the engine. 10 hours later of working with engine mounts, levers, and just unexpected issues, the engine finally came out:
I ended up having to remove the transfer case to pull the engine out - things were just too difficult to manage otherwise.

And this left an engine bay just waiting to be cleaned up.
And through the magic of...err.. me being slow to post... we see the cleaned up version:

The clutch bell housing assembly was pretty nasty, and took a fair amount of cleaning just to find the bolts.
The PO removed the bell housing cover and drove it off road a good bit, so the inside of the bell housing was very dirty - it took a few more nights to both clean and figure out how to remove the bell housing.

And after about 3 hours of cleaning with degreaser and wire wheel, and now have a mostly clean bell housing.
And a mess of an engine to clean...

The teardown of the engine begins. I should re-state that my knowledge is limited, so this is as much of a learning experience as anything for me.

I had been soaking the bolts, and specifically the header bolts in PB Blaster for the several days while working on the clutch. Either as a result, or just being lucky, the headers came off pretty easily:
Next up, the valve covers. 45 years of gunk...

And... off with her head. A good bit of carbon build up on the pistons:
Removed most of the rest of the parts around the engine, flip it over, and remove the oil pan. I didn't expect as much coolant to still be in the engine as there was, so about an extra half hour was spent cleaning up the floor....

And now I've got quite the arrangement on my garage floor. I wish I had more space to work on this, but this is the best I can do with limited room in the 'burbs:
And finally the crankshaft joins the rest of the parts:
And the block is finally empty, ready to go to the machine shop to have the heads surfaced and everything else inspected:

My machinist friend has picked up the block, and since it's a "friends and family" deal, it'll take a little longer than a normal machining process. But, I wanted to make sure it was in capable hands, and I wanted to get good, valuable feedback, without worry that I was getting an upsell that I didn't need.

And so for the past couple weeks, I've been degreasing, scraping, wire-wheeling, and otherwise having no fun cleaning. I really regret not tracking down a place to have these parts dipped....

As the small parts are getting done, I'm painting them with Brite Touch Engine Enamel that faux40 mentioned in his thread.

Which brings me to current. Then and Now Automotive has rebuilt my front motor mounts. One week turn around and $180, including shipping. My machinist said the heads needed to be machined flat, but the valves, valve seats, and cylinders were all good.

I've got new crank bearings, rod bearings, and cam bearings from Motor Power, Inc. Most things are ready to go - just need to clean up and paint a few more parts and get my block back...

And one of the last things I had on my list to take apart, clean, and paint, was the coolant pump and pulley. And after the slightest tightening down on the pulley puller, the pulley snapped:
So... I need to track down a replacement pulley. I found this post about rebuilding the water pump and replacing the pulley. I just gave them a call, and they're still rebuilding these pumps. So... I'm boxing it all up today and sending it off to them-