Reconditioning the Block prior to Head Install

[tberk@mindspring.com (T Berk)]

"T. Reed" wrote:
> 
> I'm curious, what exactly does hot tanking entail? Chemicals/solvents?
> Heat?
> 
> I'm picturing the block glowing cherry red in a furnace then being dunked
> in a strong solvent bath, but I'm sure that's just my imagination :)
> 
> -Toby
> 

There are two things you mention; the cherry red heating sounds like
'seasoning a block' to me, clamping it in some stiff metal plates (to
simulate it being a long block), and heat cycling it to relive
stresses from it's manufacturing phase. Bores then come into proper
alignment.

As far as hot tanking, the other guys touched on it.

btw- I never intended to make the top edge of the block mirror smooth,
I wanted to avoid gasket creep because of powdered oxidation left
behind by the block being out in the air for so long.

I'll be cleaning the crap off the top of the cylinder bores prior to,
I have some idea to pour a little oil & MMO before I hand crank the
short block over though.

TBerk