After my Thanksgiving dinner wore off, I decided it was time to do some investigating.
Got the head dismantled and cleaned up. Found very little contamination in the rocker area. The cam and rockers just show normal wear. The cam journals FORTUNATELY look pretty good to me. My phone camera is still pretty crappy, but here's some pics of the T-chain side. There are no grooves or scoring, just a few lite scratches from cam installation and removal( I guess) or tooling. Didn't find any contamination in the passage from the oil pump. The T-chain area in the head and jug were kinda bad.
The bad part came when I took the clutch cover off.lol
That crap is everywhere!!!!
Looks like the oil screen got most of it though, but WOW is it clogged. That stuff is definitely ground up shop towel. Compaired to the stator and T-chain area's, the clutch area is definitely where the contamination originated.
The spinner filter had very little in it. Just the usual clutch and carbon clay. I took the clutch completely apart and cleaned it up. Had the contamination on the inside of the outer part of the round housing. Discs, springs, main springs, and the little rollers were clean.
Here is the inside of the clutch cover. If you look close, you can see the little slivers everywhere. I also got the jug and the clutch cover cleaned up and bagged up. I used up nearly all of my electrical contact cleaner on the cover alone, just to save the paint. The oil passage in it was still clean as was the inside of the adjuster.
I am now out of brake clean and carb cleaner. Took me two cans of that stuff to get this far. I should have bought more.lol
I haven't even gotten to splitting the cases yet. Gonna stop for now. This engine is a MESS. Those little slivers are everywhere. This is going to take awhile. Wish I had a vat tank handy right now. Also forgot to order the snap rings.