Powerwashing an Engine?

So after the terrible sand blasting incident (for the engine), we decided to powerwash the sand out.  It was stuck to the oil residue still on the surfaces and would not blow out easily with compressed air.  Every moving part made a terrible scratching metal on sand noise.  Ughhhhh

Then Beard went tribal.  We'll see him later.

Here I have taken apart the rocker arms (one of them is badly scored) and cleaned the valve cover.

 

It wasn't that big of a task really and I followed up with a dry rag then a bunch of compressed air till the metal was completely dry.

 And the cylinder too

 

I may get over there tonight and put some parts back together again.  So far, the powerwashing undid all the trouble we caused and we can continue moving forward with the build!