Weird clip Found between cylinder head and block

[manupnorth]

Heads are getting resurfaced and I will get them rechecked. My guy mentioned the same thing.
He's backed up 3 weeks.

In other entertaining news: drain Rocket is not good at unclogging this sink drain.

 

[manupnorth]

What happened to chemicals I saw in the 80's and 90's. With like skulls and crossbones with high and bright yellow warnings of never mixing that cleaner with other cleaners? Now I have potpourri smelling crap that doesn't do squat but the bathroom smells good!?! Let's find the 75.4ft snake

 

[gofishn]

They mostly abolished those chemicals or limtied to sales of 55 gallon drums, only.

True story:

Late 70's, early 80's, my Aunt cleaned up a spill, near her work station, at a major manufacturer of Dark Green Green Painted Farm implement equipment, known for running like the critter that terrorizes US Highways. yeah, that one.

She used some bottles, that were specifically for cleaning whatever the heck it was that spilled and the resulting fumes messed up how her brain functioned.
She ended up with a huge lawsuit & disability. Changed her personality and severely limited her muscle control / mobility.

She went from the most gorgeous, funniest Aunt, ever, to the most Ultra Christian, Evangelist Aunt that everyone avoided.
Think Farrah Fawcett to a wheel chair bound Tammy Fay Baker, in about 6 months.

Complete re-wiring of her brain & metabolism.

 

[manupnorth]

Here is an update. I pulled all the lifters without absolutely no issues. None stuck amazingly. Lifters are actually in nice shape except the fact that quite a few of those lock clips have fallen out of the lifter. All the lifters came out whole with no missing pieces. I took my camera and looked into the holes at the lobes on the camshaft and they look good as well. I think I got lucky that more damage didn't occur. I took pictures of the lifters if you want to see or see anything I didn't.