I finished cleaning the block down last night along with filing down a few sharp edges here and there. I'll be cleaning down all the block components tonight and will be moving onto clearance checking from tomorrow.
After I've done all the clearance checking I'm going to strip it down and clean everything thoroughly again. Basically i want everything cleaned, dried, assembled & bagged up in one day instead of over a period of a week or so (this is mainly down to the fact that there is a sand blasting machine in my garage that gets used often). Either way, been extra cautious never hurt anyone. I'm just sooooooo paranoid about anything foreign traveling around in the oil.