Filed under: 70 Mustang Coupe, In the shop, Maybe next week, Projects | Tags: Ford, Interior, Mustang, mustang coupe, Parts and Accessories, seat riser, slide rails
70 Mustang coupe
Squeaky Toy is back home. Actually it has been here since Dec 27. Today was productive and the 50ish weather was awesome! I did get the dash and brace back in. No problem. Put the seats back in … Problem! When I sat down in the driver seat something didn’t look quite right. So a bit of surveying the area revealed that apparently the new repop seat riser is not the same height as the factory Ford unit. Crap! A quick run to the house and flipping through the catalog revealed that I did have the correct piece installed. I have run into this in the past and it is not that uncommon Kinda like an inch shorter all the way around. No biggie, now that I know what the logistics are! A set of one inch risers on the driver seat slide rails will solve the problem easily. So it’s off to my steel guy to get some square tubing. Another project for another day.
Filed under: 54 Ford Lowrider, General, In the shop, Maybe next week, Projects
Well here are the pics of all the major pieces parts for the face of the54 motor. All painted and fresh. Now I get to put it all together and finish off the reassembly of the front face of the engine.
Things to do on another day! Have to make the trip out to NPD for the bolt kit and some other stuff. Later this week maybe.
Part 1 – Retro Water Pump
Replacing the water pump on this project was actually an option on my part. Didn’t really have to but I decided to refit the motor. It has to do with which side the lower water outlet is on so that it matches the radiator. We are currently using a 65 Mustang radiator. It also gets tangled up with the Serpentine belt vs V-belt pump drive direction issues.
The simple solution was to back date to a 65 Mustang pump setup. Pulleys, pump and cover. Cheap, v-belt drive and the right outlet for the 65 Mustang radiator we are using. Now with that decided upon there is another front timing cover related issue I had to deal with. Why the cover you ask? Because of the fuel pump stuff! That’s why!!
Part 2 – Retro Fuel Pump
F100 fuel pump with integrated filter housing
Open front timing area
Now all that is left to be done is detail the cover and paint it. A new timing chain set and cover gasket set will seal it all back up. The 70 Ford F100 fuel pump is an easy get. So for now we are at a pause to get parts gathered.
Well another mystery solved and another segment of the project done…for now. Intake needs to be be blasted and painted. Working on it!!!! Chill out!
Filed under: 70 Mustang Coupe, General, In the shop, Maybe next week, Projects
70 Mustang Coupe
I finally got to the removal of the front timing cover of the 70 motor. After getting all the other goofy stuff out of the way I was finally able to remove the front timing cover in order to find out why something up front was growling and also why we were slinging oil out the crank. It was a discovery that the water pump was an original D0 unit and the bearings had finally expired causing the growling. As for the leaking oil that became obvious when I removed the cover. The crank seal was age cracked in 4 places and was also original in very poor condition. The cover showed signs of being removed at some point before I got it because the goofies used red RTV to seal it back, They did cut away the front section of the pan seals but just red RTV’d it all back together.
Now with the factory front cover, crank seal and water pump still installed we are confused as to why this cover was removed at all. There is some play in the timing chain so it will be replaced before we reassemble the front area. So we will get the cover cleaned and painted, the new water pump is already painted and the new gasket set is here too. So as soon as I can prep and paint the factory cover and get a new chain we, er….. I, will put it all back together. A project for another day!
