More dismantling & Core plugs out.

Spent a happy couple of hours in the garage today, taking the remaining bits off the engine block:

-Clutch
-Flywheel
-Gearbox Adaptor Plate
-Alternator bracket
-Distributor
-Oil Cooler hose
-All 4 Core Plugs.

I finally got to remove the one part that stopped this car from running those 12 years ago:

I was quite pleased to find that this core plug was in such a poor state. The friend who sold me the car in the first place told me that it had leaked but that he couldn't get to it to replace it without removing the engine. The circular hole is where I pushed a screwdriver into it trying to demonstrate to my partner that it was knackered. I didn't expect to be able to push right through it!! The hole was initially quite small so I'm not as concerned as I was about the car being driven home with this leak.

The engine block will need to be flushed out because there was LOT of crud behind all four core plugs. Actually, there was / is a lot of crud in the cooling system in general, I think it's both rust and also old coolant; the water pump was very gummed up with whiteish crusty stuff but the engine block itself seems to be mainly full of rusty flaky stuff. I'll get the pressure washer onto it before it goes back together. I don't want all that crud in the radiator!

I also spent quite a long time scraping remains of the headgasket from the cylinderhead.