Having never gone this far into an engine before, I was meticulous at taking my time to capture mentally (and with pictures: thank you digital age!) so I have a good chance at putting things back together properly
I had a small problem getting the lifters to pull out. I had to get a stronger magnet to do it before I got the camshaft out. Everything looks really good. Bearing races were all in good shape. The rotating assembly will not require much work at all. All of the pistons came out with relative ease also. Piston walls are in fantastic shape as they should be with only 50000km. As you can see a few of the cylinders had been seeing oil burning in them for a while.
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No scoring, ridges or anything of note!
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I'm pretty confident there will be no issues with it but I will be taking the block for tanking and possibly have them do the honing.
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Wow, there is a lot of stuff to get back in order! I currently don't have a valve spring compressor or I would have taken the heads apart too.
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I did get that PIA dipstick tube out though!
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