hightower2011

That sucks. You might actually want to sell it then. Pics will help though.

MustangFTW

will do once the engine is out, ill get some preliminary pics up now though

MustangFTW

also the front end where the inner bumper bracket attaches is rusted through, barely holding the bracket.

MustangFTW

got the engine and tranny out yesterday, pics later today.

holy dirty engine and tranny batman! it was caked in ~1/2 in of grime and pebbles from the roads. used a whole bottle of engine degreaser and carb cleaner(works pretty good on this stuff) getting it acceptable, still not shiny though.

got it out with 2 chains and a normal car jack. after in done with the tranny cleaning ill unbolt it from the engine and mount the engine to the engine stand, get it cleaned up, replace all the gaskets, and port the heads. then paint it Ford blue.

i ripped/twisted one of my tranny cooling(?) copper tubes when removing it from the radiator, will fab somethin up later.

after i removed the engine my car looks lifted about 4-5 inches lol.

Rols574

you did all that work without realizing how bad that was? you didnt need the engine out to see that. what makes you thing thats going to be more work than what you have already done? I say fix it

LynnBob Mustang

Paint came out really good!
But.....
You mean to tell me you never noticed this even after you posted pics of how bad that frame was in the front that you posted about???

Good luck with that one, now's not the time to dive into the frame when you got a nice fresh painted car. You just made things a little harder for your self and the next person to get the car.

You should have taken care of all those issues before you even started cleaning the motor up and other things first.
Lynn

MustangFTW

its mostly the frame rails that are rusty as hell, ill fix as much as i can. the paint job effects nothing as the body rust was taken care of. im not worried about losing money if i plan to sell, whats a couple thousand to have a cool car and learn a bunch about it at the same time.

taking the engine out was mostly for fun, and partly to fix a couple leaks around the oil pan and transmission pan, and to port the heads, again for fun/leaning experience.

LynnBob Mustang

But now you'll have to be 1000X more careful of damaging the new paint job while fixing the frame rust that could/should have been fixed before even doing the paint without worry of it's damage.
By the looks you may have to take care of floor work as well, which means the interior has to come out, thus risking paint damage getting things in and out. It should come out anyway to fix the frame rails so you don't set the car on fire while welding, see where I'm getting at?
It would have made things a lot easier to do had you done the frame first.
Just sayin'.

Lynn

MustangFTW

so being a genius i forgot to mark how my distributor was set. so now ive done a little reading and it seems the steps to reinstall distributor is:

1. crank engine until piston #1 is TDC (i have heads off so i just crank till piston 1 is at top?)
2. point clip on dist. toward plug 1 and insert into opening (i dont get this step).
3. attempt to start engine, check timing with timing gun.

is this right? and do i crank the engine clock wise or counter clockwise?

tx65coupe

No way, that looks terrible. I have seen those done in chrome too. It never looks right. Those along with the turn signal hood vents have to be body color. The only exception is if the hood has the dual stripes from the vents to the cowl.