Decided to do a heads/cam swap on my TA. Engine has 25K miles. I got everything ordered and started to tear it down. When I got the intake off I noticed how damn dirty the valley cover was. Lots of grit and crap under the intake. I got out the shop vac and sucked up all of the loose **** and cleaned it down before removing the heads. Well, long story short, I did a **** job apparently. After I got the heads off and started cleaning the deck I started inspecting everything with my work light. When I look down over the lifters I can see that I must have knocked some of that **** down onto the cam when I was wrestling the heads off.
My question is what to do now? The cam is coming out when the new one gets here so I am not so worried about that cam but I don't want to contaminate the rest of the motor if that is possible. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

Don't own a machine shop, i do my hack work in the back yard, But if it where my engine id buy me some diesel and just pour it down into the engine from contamination point and others just to make sure drain oil and all the diesel out, then refill and yeah should be good, depending on how contaminated it was to begin with..

I wouldn't leave the diesel in long might harm your seals and gaskets... i don't think it will but yeah i wouldn't leave it in long depending how much diesel you pour in, perhaps remove your oil drain plug before pouring the diesel in

.. hope this helps..

And if anyone knows something about the diesel i have yet to find out please do tell.. cause im so using diesel for everything on my engines, of course im also using acetone for final cleaning on key matting surfaces peace

 

Bump. Thanks 404man. I am also unsure about dumping diesel into the motor. I am looking for a few opinions before I move forward doing anything. Please help!!! Thanks.

 

I agree diesel is fine. I use it a lot to clean parts when disassembling an engine. I would clean everything as good as possible then dump diesel in it to clean everything off. After that I'd drain everything out and pour a qt of cheap oil through the valleys to keep everything lubricated. Then button it back up. Diesel is better than gasoline for this because it's less refund and still retains oiling properties whereas gas would just strip it all off the metal pieces

 

Thanks to both of you very much!! I will give it shot and hope for the best. Cant believe I f***ed that up. I guess this is what happens when you go years without really turning wrenches. Also my first time working with an aluminum block so I have been extremely paranoid about not damaging the block in any way.