Rebuilding my KA24E. Need advice on prepping the block.

[Arrow]

I posted this in my thread in the general chat, but I figure that it is probably a more important question to be asked here. Thanks in advance!

I am going to take my block into the machine shop to have it acid washed to clean it up real good. Here is my question:

Will any damage come from having it acid washed with these two elements on the block? I have no idea how I could remove them. They are in the oil passage lines the first is a ball with a spring behind it and it's located at the oil filter. The second is located above the filter against the head.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

hmmm, I don't remember dealing with any of that when I got my block done. The guy at the machine shop should know what to do (if he has to mask them, or if he removes them, etc). He would be the best person to ask.

[ard]

do not worry, it will do no harm to it.

[Arrow]

Yeah, I took the block to a carquest machine shop in the area and the guy there told me that he couldn't blast the block unless he replaced the check valve and he didn't have any replacements in stock. So he said that he would just put it in the tank for a while (like possibly a few days) and I should have it back by the middle of this week.