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Well, I deceided to go ahead and fix all the leaks and do a general housecleaning.  Along with pulling the heads to determine static and dynamic CR.  Here are the first photo's

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The things we get ourselves into....confuse

Have fun......if you're like me, you'll have the whole front clip off soon.....wink

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Jim, welcome to the 'cars apart' club!  wink

I hope to have my engine/trans pulled in the next week.  Stay tuned as it 'tis the season!  biggrin

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Seems to be a common theme around here...



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Derek69SS wrote:

Seems to be a common theme around here...



SEE !!!
 Dereks got his clip off and I'm betting Stan will have his off to do a "clean and refresh" also.....

Are you guys copying me or trying to keep up....confusewink

 



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So... you've got Cale in training as a NASCAR "Jack-Man"?? biggrin

"Pushrod" is going to be in the same boat soon - shortly after Stan!

Now here's the question/challenge.
Are you guys going to be ready by the "opener" of Hastings or Anoka??

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Its at this point things seem to snowball for me ..


No disassemble! No disassemble!






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Lost in the 60s wrote:

The things we get ourselves into....confuse

Have fun......if you're like me, you'll have the whole front clip off soon.....wink


I am little afraid to tackel that.confuse

 



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Tony Hoffer wrote:

Its at this point things seem to snowball for me ..


No disassemble! No disassemble!

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Tony, shows up with parts ready to disassemble for blasting asking do I really need to take it apart? If you really want to take something apart can you pop this roll pin out quick? My thumb has a nice black spot under the nail from this quick job and the 2# hammer

 



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You dont need to pull the entire clip in 66 if you dont have to. The core support comes right out and leaves you with plenty of open space in the front of the engine.


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Thanks for the tip Chris.  I pull the transmission before I took the engine out.  No problem with removing the engine.  If I wee to install the transmission on the bellhousing  before I put the engine back in, would I have enought room?  Or would I half to take the radiator support out?


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If you can rent/buy an equailizer like this, you can tilt the whole assembly to get the trans under the firewall and then start lowering/leveling it off and install as a unit. This is a TH400/396 going in my 70 with room to spare.


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Thanks Mitch. I am taking a break and heading out to SD to hunt some pheasants. When I get back I'll have lots of questions. Intake and heads are off

Looking for recommendations for motor mounts. (Someone put small block mounts in here at one time) Recommendations for type of replacement gaskets and rear main seal. Need to find the ABDC angle of my cam to check Dynamic cr and deceided where I want to be as far as Dynamic and Static.

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Ready to install the engine tomorrow.

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Lookin' good Jim.  Let us know when you fire it up! 

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Got the engine in Today. You always learn a few things. Would not go in with the shifter linkage, so had to take that off. Then not a steep enough angle, should have adjusted the leveler so that the two front chains were a little shorter than the back two chains, so I could have got it at a steeper angle. Just barely got it in, then the studs for attaching the exhaust manifold to the head pipe, that I had not removed, got in the way. Well with a little patience, engine mounts are torqued, the exhaust system is hooked up, shifter linkage installed, and crossmember installed.

All that is left is to reinstall the radiator, ps pump, alternator, fan & clutch, driveshaft, carb, distributor and hook up the electrical stuff.

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The hard part is done and now it's little stuff that will eat a couple days. You'll be out of the club soon....wink

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Well today I installed the drive-shaft, put the stabelizer and steering linkage back in that I had taken out to clean and recondition, and did a litle painting of remaining parts to go back in.

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Well not much progress today.  Messed up a little on trying to do some touch up on the front of the oil pan.  So off with the tire rods and center link.  Now I have to wait 7 days to touch of the orange on the bottom of the oil  pan.

So started to install the speedometer cable. Guess I should have done this before putting in the engine.  Had to remove the pass side exhaust and have my wife hole the cable in the correct position in order  to get the grommet installed.

Then  I attempted to hook up the two wires to the solenoid.  Thought I could get the clip that holds the 2 wires in place on the solenoid.  No, had to looses up the starter in order to get it to snap over without hitting the block.

Coil went on without and problem.  Then I thought I would installed the shifter handle and console.  Well where did it put the handle??  An1 1/2 hours later I found it.  I had put in a black plastic container the California duster came in.  Stopped for the day. 

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jim larson wrote:

where did it put the handle??  1 1/2 hours later I found it.  I had put in a black plastic container the California duster came in. 


I'm rolling on the floor. I'm glad I'm not the only one who spends more time looking for a part than it takes to install it...wink  There's still 38 days till spring.

 



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where did it put the handle??  1 1/2 hours later I found it.  I had put in a black plastic container the California duster came in. 


I'm rolling on the floor. I'm glad I'm not the only one who spends more time looking for a part than it takes to install it...wink  There's still 38 days till spring.
Boy am I glad I'm not the only one affected with this malady...
My particular variant is I'll be under the car and need a bolt/washer/next part/something and I'll crawl out from under the car with the tool(s) needed to install that particular widget. Get over to the bench, set the tools down, grab the widget and crawl back under the car. Then it's the 10 minute look-around under the car for the dang wrench I just had in my hand!!! DOH! (Back out from under and grab the tools).


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So it's not just my dad's "black hole" shop. Where tools and parts just mysteriously dissapear, only to be found after you've purchsed a new one. I can't count the number of times that's happened. Spend the entire day looking for a part, give up, then go buy a new one. Of course right after that, the old one strangely pops up.

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Misplaced tools, parts, soda cans even beer cans are the devilish work of the shop fairy. He’s invisible so you’ll never see the little bast*&^ but he lives in the shop, moves things around when you’re not looking then hides somewhere to watch how you react.

Try this, next time you can’t find something where you just put it, don’t do anything be perfectly quiet. Wait a few minutes and listen very carefully, you’ll hear the little p&^%$ laughing and snickering.

Last week I had a small part in my hand, the reflector housing that goes in the Elky rear bumper I set it down and when I went back to get it was gone. After looking for a half hour I gave up and called it a day. Drof, that’s my shop fairy’s name (Ford spelled backwards) will sometimes latter put the things somewhere in plain sight so you can find them. So the next morning I’m in the kitchen making a pot of coffee and low and behold there’s the part right next to the coffee pot. Drof is getting pretty bold now; he’s even going in the house. That explains why the car keys can sometimes be so hard to find.

Derrick’s shop fairy won’t be too active when his young future NASCAR star helper (see above) is in the shop he can just sit back and watch.


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dashboard wrote:
Derrick’s shop fairy won’t be too active when his young future NASCAR star helper (see above) is in the shop he can just sit back and watch.

If my kids are half as bad about losing my tools as I was with my Dad's tools, I'm in REALLY big trouble. no

If anything was missing, Dad always blamed me. Most of the time he was right. confuse



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