[JasonBird]

oh yeah, i also scraped about a pound or three of dirt, grease crud off of the front crossmember. it's not nearly as rusty as it looked. i also squirted the bolts on the 327 down really good with PB spray, and loosened up the spark plugs. i wanted to make sure they were not going to sieze. they all came out good. Autolite 306's was what they were. the PO had taken care and sealed all of the exhaust manifold bolt holes with caulk or something. i scraped all of that out and ran a 3/8-16 tap into all of the holes and cleaned them all up. took the air hose and shop vacuum to it and it's looking much better. i was going to pull a valve cover off, but it is siliconed on there really good. Not sure how to get around that without bending or denting the valve covers. lol, i feel like an archiologist uncovering an old fossil!!