I am in the process of working on a Gen III hemi short block. As I was investigating things I am finding a lot of trash in the block and oil galleys ( I did not build the short block). I understand the short block needs to come 100% apart. After I do that, what method would you guys use to clean it? Thank you all for your advice. I will try to add some pics of what I am discovering. It looks like a mix of sand and assembly lube. Turned the cam over by hand about 3 revolutions and you can see what happened to the bearing. Did that before I saw any trash. The bearing looks worse than in the pictures and I can catch my fingernail on the grooves.

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