51 Ford pickup

[Gojeep]

What a shame about the engine. :(

[MSTSFabbed]

AH bummer man! I'm with you about failing in the garage though! Way easier/cheaper than on the side of the road somewhere.

[gearheads78]

Looked all through this today. Love the build. Great work but at first I was saying nooooooo to your wheel choice but was relieved to see you switch toward the end. Perfect now!!

[Dave B]

Oh crap....Man that sucks.

[wfo guy]

This is a quick rundown of what I considered. There is no add-in for time for new fabrication on any changeovers.
Engine options

5.7 hemi
used with acces. $3680 plus frt. wiring harness and ecu $1,650
new with clutch $5595 plus $329 frt.
bellhousing $100

Ramjet 350
new $5745 free frt.
acces. $300
bellhousing $100
clutch $150

5.3 LS swap $1050 and up plus frt. PSI harness and ecu $900

Hanlon adapter for 3650 trans with front retainer $550

Coyote new $6,200 wiring harness and ecu $1,500
acces. at least $500

Used f150 coyote $3000 plus frt. wiring harness and ecu $1,500

used low mileage 4.6 Crown Vic 4.6 $645 with shipping

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[Dave B]

Coyote in any form, would be cool. I can't publicly express my LS engine envy.

[Jetfixr320]

Sorry to hear about the engine problem.

I was watching your Youtube video and its hard to read the gauges. But it appears that the oil pressure was 0. Had you had the distributor or cam sensor or oil pump out?

[wfo guy]

Jetfixr, the wiring to the fuel pump and gauge was unplugged when that video was taken. There's something in that circuit that ties all the gauges together so they were all non-functioning. That engine had 103,000 miles on it and showed no signs of recent disassembly. The grease was really thick on most of it. It looked to be original except for the intake manifold which had the alum. crossover.

[wfo guy]

Another day of fun and exercise! Moving forward to start over.

[wfo guy]

Today's task after cleaning up the mess from the engine removal was to pull the pedal assembly and modify the mounts. There are 4 .5" risers that protrude towards the firewall that I believe were to provide spacing for firewall insulation. The master cylinder rod attached to the hydroboost is non-adjustable. In order to equalize the clutch and brake pedal heights, I removed .350" of those risers,now the pedals are very close to each other. I double walled the firewall in that area for stiffness for the pedals and didn't realize there wasn't any adjustment on the brake rod.

[wfo guy]

We've had a little Indian summer the last 2 days. Today while it was 82 degrees, I vatted the bed floor panels and epoxy primed both sides and painted one side. I'm still thinking of using bed liner but I'm going to think about the budget before that decision is made. You can see I had a spectator in one pic. Doesn't he know it's February?

[wfo guy]

Today's boring task. The hood had been ground on where the lead was and it was really thin. The brace underneath is bent and I'm going to have to make a jig to straighten it.

[wfo guy]

The replacement engine was delivered today. There was a large cardboard box hiding the contents. There was no visible damage to the box. After removing the box I found that they used a pallet that didn't fit the engine at all. The oil pressure sender was broken and there was a thick oil over the front of the engine and in the valley. After I removed it from the pallet I gave it a solvent bath. Something strange blew off the intake. It appears to be leftover rib bones. They were large for chicken bones. Nice of someone to leave his lunch mess for me to clean up. After cleaning up the mess, the engine looks to be sealed up well. There's no sign of an oil leak on the pan or seals. I put a socket on the crank and it turns over so that's how far I got today. This weekend there will be lots of items to changeover.

[wfo guy]

Everything's ready to do the swap tomorrow. I wonder if I can turn a 2 hour job into all day?

[Motown 454]

I hope it all goes smooth for you today with the swap.

[wfo guy]

I'm 4 hours behind my estimate but better than a lot of days I've had in the last couple of years. One of the pics is of a heater hose nipple that was broken off when I got the engine. There was a red plug in it so I assume the salvage yard new it and didn't mention it. We'll have a discussion about that. I faced it off and tapped it for 3/8" pipe. One pic shows the clearance that I have for the oil filter now. The new engine didn't have the oil cooler that the old one had. 2 less lines and 2 less places to leak. I had to drill and tap the crossover on the intake manifold for the ect sensor for the ecu. There was a few other items but most were small. I've spent most of the day bent over. I'll be feeling that for awhile.

[Gojeep]

Good to see that you are making some headway.

[wfo guy]

It's running. Ford uses 2 ground systems. I haven't got it figured out yet. More work ahead.
http://youtu.be/yu8Yf_aew8A

[wfo guy]

I worked all day and got about 30 minutes of results accomplished. One pic is of the trans harness after it was changed from auto to manual. One is a pile of some circuits that I traced and removed. One is the rear harness in a semi- complete form. The throttle pedal hasn't been installed yet but it is able to move under it's own power now.

[Gojeep]

I'll have a lot of stripping excess wiring from my donor as well being a WK Grand Cherokee Hemi 4 door wagon, but transferred into a 48 Willys Pickup truck!