At least you don't have to worry about it conking out in mid air.
Good suggestions so far. Line up your machine shops and price the parts and make sure you can afford the adventure before you start.
One thing though, I would hold off on taking the head in for machining until you take the crankshaft and camshaft along with having the journals miked and getting the block checked for cracks. Hate to see you get the valves ground, etc and then learn your crank is bad or there is a crack somewhere.
It's probably due for an overhaul or close to it so sleeves, pistons, rings, etc just makes economic sense because of the work to tear one down again. Then you are good for another 50 years.
Get you a gallon of carb type cleaner with the strainer in it. When you have a group of parts/bolts going into one container you can clean them at the same time for a day.
I've used the sort parts on certain spots on the floor method but invariably the piles will get kicked over and intermixed. Keep pen and paper handy. When the water pump or something has different lenght bolts, make a drawing of bolt pattern and mark where the long and short ones go.
Hard to take pictures with greasy hands but ask the wife to come out and do it every so often. Better yet use a video camera and describe what you did or are doing. I can think of countless times where I pulled something apart thinking I will put it back together shortly and don't write down how I did it, then invariably there is some delay and memory slippage and then I can't remember how it went back together.
One question I have for everyone is how to mark parts and settings, line up marks, which side faces out or in, which way the pistons point, the way the rods go on, etc? I've used welder's markers, sharpies, paint, and then the marks get washed off when I clean the parts.
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