Welding shop wanted $40 per hour. I bought a siphon sandblast gun from sears.com for $16 and a bag of play sand from Lowes for $3.50 plus 2 hours of my time @$.50 per hour so less than $21 to do it myself. After pic is 1st then the before. I like it.

Edited June 2, 201212 yr by siteunseen

Looks great - just make sure you clean the inside of the valve cover out - very very completely. That sand gets stuck everywhere!!

Good result. Carl is right about sand. I had my excavator blasted and painted. Should have left it---even though we were ultra careful, stuffed the engine.