What is the best way to clean up the gasket surfaces of rust and to clean the pistons of carbon?

Also, do these water jackets look overly rusty? The engine is only supposed to have 800 miles on it?

Anyway to clean the water jackets with a chemical after install or just flush the cooling system?

 

im sure theres some type of chemical to clean the internal of the water jackets ie: block, doesnt really look all that bad i actually seen worse, as for the rust on the surfaces i would just use some lubricate and a light hone will remove the rust from the gasket surface with little effort

 

Muriatic acid will clean that up. Got to make sure to dilute the surface with water after wiping the rust off.

 

You ever see cam retaining bolts like this? Well they are in TIGHT!


I stripped one while it bent my torx bit... SO I grabbed another stronger torx bit. The next 2 sounded like they broke in half as they broke loose but came out ok. They didn't have loc-tite on them that I could tell. The book says 18lb/ft. No way these are at 18lb/ft. The fourth one did this to my strong torx bit...


W..T..F? So how would you go about getting the stripped one out and breaking the other one loose? I will go buy another torx bit tomorrow as I have ruined the 2 I had

 

Possibly use a impact driver? In the bottom photo of the engine, is that a crack inside the water jacket?

 

No, just some crap stuck to the wall, I scraped it out w/a screwdirver.

 

i would use a flapper wheel or maybe a brass wire wheel to clean off that rust. if you are taking it down to a bare block i would let a machine shop clean it and everything for you

 

I'm not tearing it down, I'm putting it together
The block just has a lot of surface rust on it or maybe I'm just being OCD...I just want to clean it up before I put on the heads/water pump/etc...

 

Are those cam retaining plate bolts a new thing? I've never seen them before. Do I need to replace them with the same style for clearance issues or can I use normal 10mm bolts?

 

Scotch bright pads and starting fluid..