Last post by Chuck W -
Got this done today It wasn't playing nice on the hoist, so I conned my wife into being a second set of hands to get it out without damaging anything.
As I mentioned, the seals on this engine are merely suggestions.
There is nothing open here. That is oil actively draining from the oil pan or rear main seal
Messy, messy.
The engine is on the stand and hopefully I can get the powerwasher out tomorrow and clear off the crud from the engine and transmission and start getting things taken care of.
Switched to using an HP Tuner instead of the SCT, as I wanted more control over things. Have that all set up and moving forward.
Otherwise, just been basically chasing down some trouble codes and sorting out the bits of wiring I hadn't done at the bulkhead connector yet.
One of the things I needed to do was sort out the fuel pump and tank, and get it close-ish to being mounted. Before mounting a tank, I needed to prep the floorpan, as I was going to seal things up a bit, because this car was going to get driven on the regular.
I grabbed a case of this stuff It's a wax-based encapsulator/sealer. I'll be doing the entire underside of the car with it, but just got the rear cleaned up so far.
The closer stuff was still a bit wet when the pic was taken, but you can see that it dries to kind of a satin finish.
Next was to get the new fuel pump installed. I'm using a Deatschwerks DW200 (similar to a Walbro 255hp), that I needed to modify the hanger to get it mounted. Before finalizing things, I wanted to check to make sure things were in the proper spots. (You can see the test spacer I made up in this shot (green))
When I was happy with how it all was, I reprinted my spacer out of some PEKK material, which is gasoline resistant. Modded the pick-up tube and installed the correct submersible fuel hose.
Next project is to drop the valve body out of the 6R80 to replace a faulty lead frame (Shift position sensor), as a few of the DTCs are pointing that direction.
Last post by Mikey97D -
For the LTD or 'Bird, although the master may not be perfect it will hopefully be good enough that you can polish out imperfections.
Sorry to see this. you might want to consider making a mold yourself:
That actually gives me ideas for the reverse light lenses for the LTD wagon that are impossible to find. Not sure if any of the ones I have are good enough for "masters" though.
Last post by Chuck W -
OK, so I did wind up parking the car for a few weeks and dealt with other things.
This weekend I began tearing into it to do the refresh. This includes: - Resealing the engine. (All seals are merely suggestions at this point) - Valve seals - Motor mounts - Factory headers - Trans seals - Fix PS leak (turns out to be a bad pump) - Port injection set-up install with MegaSquirt ECU - Rear disc brakes (S197s) - A couple other fiddly bits
This is where we're starting
Everything up top disconnected, and after removing the belt was when I found the bad PS pump. The pulley moved in/out but about 1/8" or so.
Also, a little project I'm working on for the intake
