The sacrifice in blood has been made to the truck for the week. But in return for a skinned knuckle, I was rewarded with progress. 🙂
The nuts are off of the right side head, although the head itself is still stuck tight. Some light reading and research and I have found this is not uncommon. So following the least intensive suggestion, for now I am soaking the studs (and the edges of the heads) with some oil so see if I can then gently bust it free. Once we have that off we can start getting a look inside the block and we will know more.
I’m also soaking the bolts holding the intake as I suspect it will be stuck also, we’ll just have to see.
Getting bare…
Probably the biggest step for the weekend is that the carburetor is now off the intake and now on the bench.
The carb is on the bench
I was trying to take the grill off the front of the truck to make it easier to work around, but the nuts and bolts need to soak in penetrating oil, they were fighting me and it just wasn’t worth the effort, I can come back to that battle later.
But the starter solenoid is off and the wires all labeled. The starter is disconnected, but still attached for now.
Starter Solenoid
Side note here, working on the truck is something I love to do, but being able to work on the truck AND smoke bacon… priceless!!!
Makin’ Bacon