Cylinder Block Clean Up

Thought that I'd spend a couple of hours cleaning up the cylinder block. Pieces of the gasket truly welded to the cylinder block. Cylinders also quite dirty. 

Armed with a bundle of "Google" knowledge, decided to carefully take a handled blunt Stanley razor blade to the surface, followed up by using some wet sand paper (120, 600, 3000 and then 7000 grit).

Prepared before hand by stuffing paper hand towel in the various holes and cylinders. When taking the razor blade to remove the gasket, I had a hoover in hand to suck up the gasket flecks as they were removed. What also turned out to be useful was a small diameter rubber hose/straw feed into the hoover nozzle to get into various channels. Final blast off with an air compressor in the holes to remove any last remaining debris. 

Then set about removing some final pieces from the right hand side of the engine block, brake vacuum pump and various gaskets. Again using a razor blade and light sanding with wet 600 grit and paper.

Given that it'll be a little while before refitting the cylinder head and ancillaries, I taped up the engine block with some low tack decorators masking tape.