The guys have just about covered everything. Also, plastic zip lock bags and a permanent marker are invaluable, as is a notebook with drawings of how everything goes back together. Have your Wife, Girlfriend, or someone else with clean hands sitting there so they can write info on the baggies before you put the greasy parts in them.
I usually label one bag "Rt side head bolts", another "Left side head bolts", another "intake manifold bolts." etc. Put the baggies in a box for safe keeping......there are little Gremlins in every garage in American and their job is to hide bolts. No matter how careful you are, you will end up missing something when rebuilding time comes along.......I guarantee it.
If you plan on reusing any parts like your cam, the lifters have to go back with the lobe it was riding on.......so do the pushrods, and ideally the rocker arms. I take a cardboard box and poke 16 small holes in it and stick the pushrods into the holes and label each one where it went. I mark the box "front of engine" and set the pushrods in order just as they came out. I do the same thing with the lifters, but I use a plastic sorter box with compartments in it so I can keep them separated and in order.
The auto stores sell fancy plastic trays to set all of that stuff in, but I have never bought one yet........gonna have to do that sometime.
You will also want to note the position of the rod and main bearing caps BEFORE you remove them. They have to go a certain way. I use an electric etching pencil and write something like " #1" on one with an arrow pointing to the front of the block. Everyone on here, including me, has reinstalled a bearing cap backwards at one time or another, so you have to be careful.
A digital camera documenting every step of the teardown is a great tool. You THINK you will remember how it all goes back together, YOU WON'T!! :lol:
If you get stuck, let us know and we'll try to help you out.
Don
Oh, when you are removing the cam, or reinstalling it, screw a very long bolt into the end of it to act as a handle so you can withdraw and reinstall it without nicking the soft cam bearings with a sharp lobe corner. Go slow in every step.
