Houston/Galveston Engine Rebuild Help

These are the before and during pics

Actually, I've seen worse. Back to my original question...do you have the correct shop manual? As for your location...let me guess...Santa Fe? :laugh:

Galveston

Drain the oil and see what it looks like. If theres any water, I'de take it apart. If oil is just black or looks ok, have a compression check done and pull valve cover and see what it looks like.
You can't judge a book by its cover.

After several hours finally figured out how to disassemble forks. Most everything is disassembled and waiting for refurbish. Next step may be sandblast then to buy a powdercoat gun then look for free oven on side of road to bake parts. We'll see.

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