Good stuff mate!

Cant wait to see your results.

Cheers

Josh

Thanks dude, i have seven days to have the engine bay TOTALLY stripped of wiring, bolts, clips etc. It's going to be fun lol.

You can do that. Easy, if you've even half removed an engine before, you'll have it done in no time. And don't engine bay resprays look the goods (especially if you get it done properly - although there's nothing wrong with POT BELLY BLACK out of a can, promise........)

Thanks Fiend, yeah i'm getting it sprayed professionally, the same as the exterior paint. Will look a whole lot better than the standard base-coat red and overspray from a previous fix (note front right corner of radiator support panel)

Todays efforts as of 1:00pm, not looking forward to having to hide all that wiring and realys.

Mate...it's easy as...... and makes a big difference in the engine bay. Here's mine.

Keep up the good work.
Cheers

Daz

Love the progress Fordman351!

The reward of a cleaner engine bay will be worth the effort to hide all the wiring.

Cheers

ToranaGuy

Nice work there Daz, i was thinking about mounting the relays and fuses on the inside of the fender like you suggested, the wiring is pretty tight but i'll figure something out, thanks for the idea!

Thanks ToranaDude, sure will be worth the effort in the end, doesn't seem like it at the current time though haha.

Well, i've knocked off for the day, pretty happy with today's effort, tomorrow i'll get underneath the car and get everything ready to turf the engine. The battery tray is out, but the part that attaches to the chassis lower in the engine bay will have to wait untill the engine comes out as it's just to difficult to drill out the spot-welds neatly.

Good stuff mate. I thought you had given up on this.

God dam fordman, your engine bay has major sex appeal with all the looms, battery and fuse box hidden or removed. I to hope to hide every bit of wirring when i get to it, and polish up the fuel rail and air manifold. Great work champ, always a pleasure to check out what you've been up to on the beast.

Regards Jared.

Thanks mate, happy to help. What you see is only half the wiring. Horn, ignition, etc relays, and main wiring loom are under the drivers side guard. Obviously you're putting the battery in the boot??

Cheers

Daz

Thanks for the kind words blokes, i appreciate it muchly.

Smithy don't worry i'm keeping tabs on what you're up to haha, loving your project. I have a spare fuel rail which i will eventually have polished, i'm not going to worry about the intake manifold as there will eventually be an aftermarket plenum going on.

Daz, looks a hell of alot neater hiding the wiring, top stuff. And yes the battery is going in a sealed vented box in the boot.

Well, here's todays efforts, stripped off all the small fiddly bits off the front of the car, tailshaft, exhaust, transmission cooler and lines and the transmission as well. Engine is now ready to come out. Just need a trailer to go pick up the engine crane lol

Drained ATF, took pan off to have a butchers.





This is only HALF of it



Top bellhousing bolt taker-outerer

Hey ---

I've got one of those exact same tools too!
Give us a look at your drive shaft removal tool and the starter removal tool?...

I'm not giving up the secret of the starter motor bolt removal tool, but you do have to pull a face a certain way and yell out a certain combination of expletives to get the inner bolt

EDIT - My tool for top bellhousing bolts is slightly different upon closer inspection. By using a short extension bar (SHORT, like two inches) between forward universal turning facilitator and socket it was easier to get the required torque to get the bloody things moving...

You must have a different version of the inner starter bolt removal tool. Although by moving the placement of the coil packs from factory EF and using an EL engine mount bracket it is a lot easier than EF models as originally tested.

My tool requires a couple of more steps...
1) insertion of arm whilst twisting 180 degrees (the Ford MoToCo equivalent to helping a cow give birth, and just as dangerous if you get it wrong - was stuck for quite some time once!),
2) tongue out left side of mouth
3) eyes shut tightly
4) the long string of specific expletives

Sounds like a similar tool, although maybe a slightly different model... It does get easier with practice.

I actually found it quite easy the first time, as there were no heater hoses in the way, that made a huge difference having them there. I tried for nearly half an hour to get that barsturd of a bolt!

The engine is now out and living on the floor of the garage. Fun times. Sorry for all the useless dribble type posts i'm making, i'm kind of using this thread as my personal blog too

Thats what our Build threads are for right

So whats the next plan of attack mate? hiding that wiring or ya pull that sump off the engine?

Next plan of attack is to scrub and degrease the engine bay and start masking off whats not to be painted. The loom on the left hand side of the engine bay cannot be poked back into the cabin which is annoying, so i'l have to bunch it all up in a placky bag so as not to get paint all over it.

Then i'll start on the engine. I'm not going to take the sump off, i'm getting a bloke i know who owns a fab shop to drill out the casting in the sump and we'll just flush it out with oil. I also need to get the hole in the front of the inlet manifold welded up (where the butterfly rod passes through) and also have the heater pipes made. Other than that, pretty smooth sailing from here.

In regards to bolt removing tools sometimes 10 year old kids are great cause they are really flexible. I once had a injected Gq patrol and the only way to get number 4 spark plkug out was to throw him in engine bay hang onto his ankles and let hin twist that ratchet to his hearts content. Give him $5 and hes happy and i have no scrapped knuckles cramps etc.

Love this thread would love to do but I reckon electronics are the work of the devil.

Steve

No project ever seems like it's worth it until you get to enjoy it, and i say enjoy it as a car project is never really finished is it?

Cheers

ToranaGuy