my slant buildup

well just got my new ultrasonic cleaner.... I'm on my 3rd one.... I use the snot out of them. Originally, my son got me one for Xmas a couple years ago, I used it alot working on small engine carburetors..... mostly '70s/'80s Kohler, Briggs and Tecumseh stuff..... that one was a 3 ltr.... that one stopped working on me, but I'd definitely gotten my use out of it...... thought Id try a smaller (2L) one, that one is too small..... the 3L was "too big" sometimes, and "too small" sometimes, the 2L is too small "most of the time" I could do ~3 Kohler or Tecumseh carbs in the 3L at a time, couldn't do more than 1 at a time in the 2L one.

I could do 1 section at a time of a BBD in the 3L cleaner...... works GREAT on carburetors and small parts. just water, and a "splash" of Simple Green.

Today I just got my latest, 4.5L..... a gazillion of them on Feebay, 98% of them in a given size all the same as the next guy is selling, and the same $$$ will buy you a 2L to a 6L, if you wade thru the listings... they're are a few who think everyone looking at EPay is a "sucker" and will pay double what the "going rate happens to be at the time, from most sellers..... I tried cleaning (what head bolts I do have) and the pushrods in the 2L, I had to do 1/2 the pushrods, then flip them around and do the other end.... didn't quite get to the middle.... they all fit nice in the 4.5.... those are clean as new, I have my oil pump body soaking in it now.

on teh engine assembly, I tried starting to go up with it this past weekend, was quickly stopped in my tracks when I saw what my new main bearings looked like.... currently waiting on the 2nd set of mains to be in my mailbox...... (I have another thread on that-- with pix even--- a rarity for me)