I have gotten literally pounds of crud out of blocks. Of course if you get it hot tanked they take care of it for you, but "in frame" you can' get that done. One time I made a little spoon out of sheet steel and spooned a lot out of the back through a large passage opening in the deck.[/quote]
Head is off and at the shop for pressure testing.
Sadly, this is the third time that I've removed the head in two weeks...so I can do it in an hour or so. Nothing like repetition.
I checked the head gasket vs the passages and all passages were accounted for and in the correct position. I also didn't see any spots on the head gasket where coolant or oil was hitting the gasket from a blocked passage.
I'm thinking that I'll just drop the water pump anyway. What's another pound to an elephant?
Then figure out how to get the gunk out of the block, if there is any.
Some of the passages look cruddy when I look down through the holes in the top of the block with the head removed.
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