Mustang update....
I was going to do a whole write up about the kingdom trip, but we covered it in so many other places I decided to skip.
Despite limited time, I have been getting things done on the mustang. 8 weeks since I last posted....When I left I had mostly finished the brakes...I have since finished the brakes. This was not super simple. When I started to bleed the system I found some leaks and had to cut and reflare a couple of things. But everything is good now, brakes are bled and working now.
Steering is also done
So the next big thing is to get the motor into the car. finally....Its been about finished for more than 2 years now, just sitting on the stand. Its not too difficult to put the engine back into the car, but there is a good deal of prep that you want to do in the case of a 67 big block mustang. As I have mentioned before, this engine is impossible to work on once its in the car, so you want to have any many things on it as possible before dropping it in. The headers for example....390 "GT" engines were not like regular 390s, they used 14 bolt heads and the front and rear cylinders had 4 bolts......good luck installing these once the motor is in the car. I suppose its possible, but even on the stand I need a 3/8" wrench cut in half to get to a couple...heres Bob helping me
After the headers I put new plugs in since that also sucks doing with the motor in the car, few of them anyway.
Next I needed to get the engine off the stand in order to put on the flywheel, clutch, bellhousing and starter motor. In the past I have done this step with the engine dangling from a hoist...It really sucks doing it this way, in addition to it being dangerous...So I bought an engine cradle for this part, it was cheap and would allow me to set the engine on the floor, problem is that the headers interfered with the rear bolts...So I had to turn it around and brace it with some wood. Not pretty, but the engine is now off the stand and onto the floor.
After this, I got out my new billet steel flywheel and got that figured out. It had been since ~2001 since I had to do this, so I did not remember that the flywheel bolts are indexed....meaning the pattern looks symmetrical, but it will only go on one way...so 15-20min of rotating later and i finally got the bolts in
So tonight ill get this torqued down, then start putting the clutch together (after I clean off all of the red grease)
I was going to do a whole write up about the kingdom trip, but we covered it in so many other places I decided to skip.
Despite limited time, I have been getting things done on the mustang. 8 weeks since I last posted....When I left I had mostly finished the brakes...I have since finished the brakes. This was not super simple. When I started to bleed the system I found some leaks and had to cut and reflare a couple of things. But everything is good now, brakes are bled and working now.
Steering is also done
So the next big thing is to get the motor into the car. finally....Its been about finished for more than 2 years now, just sitting on the stand. Its not too difficult to put the engine back into the car, but there is a good deal of prep that you want to do in the case of a 67 big block mustang. As I have mentioned before, this engine is impossible to work on once its in the car, so you want to have any many things on it as possible before dropping it in. The headers for example....390 "GT" engines were not like regular 390s, they used 14 bolt heads and the front and rear cylinders had 4 bolts......good luck installing these once the motor is in the car. I suppose its possible, but even on the stand I need a 3/8" wrench cut in half to get to a couple...heres Bob helping me
After the headers I put new plugs in since that also sucks doing with the motor in the car, few of them anyway.
Next I needed to get the engine off the stand in order to put on the flywheel, clutch, bellhousing and starter motor. In the past I have done this step with the engine dangling from a hoist...It really sucks doing it this way, in addition to it being dangerous...So I bought an engine cradle for this part, it was cheap and would allow me to set the engine on the floor, problem is that the headers interfered with the rear bolts...So I had to turn it around and brace it with some wood. Not pretty, but the engine is now off the stand and onto the floor.
After this, I got out my new billet steel flywheel and got that figured out. It had been since ~2001 since I had to do this, so I did not remember that the flywheel bolts are indexed....meaning the pattern looks symmetrical, but it will only go on one way...so 15-20min of rotating later and i finally got the bolts in
So tonight ill get this torqued down, then start putting the clutch together (after I clean off all of the red grease)
