Garage Clean Up

We (Miguel and I) had a very successful Sunday morning this past weekend. We picked up an engine hoist from a local equipment rental and loaded up the old engine into the trailer.  Not before emptying the oil pan though because the recycling place won't take any parts with fluid still in them.  Mind you, the oil has been sitting for 25+ years. Simply taking out the oil pan plug wouldn't do. Oil dripped out for a couple seconds then stopped. We knew there had to be more than that. So we unscrewed the oil pan, which was a lot easier than I was expecting.  Gave it quite a few bangs with the mallet hammer to loosen it and the oil pan came free. What we discovered looked like black, gooey, slimy sludge. It was gross. 

We also threw out the transmission, the whole front in (front crossmember, breaks, torsion bars, a-arms) and a few other metal parts. We took the whole trailer load to TKO Recycling (Rancho Cordova, CA). They will recycle just about anything.