Mustang Motor reassembly Phase 1
I'm feelin pretty good right about now. It was a good day.
The Mustang motor is stripped down to pretty much a long block and so is the Explorer motor. Now on to cleaning stuff up and reassembling the Mustang motor with the explorer parts and the new stuff I bought.
Here are four pics:
1. Mustang before dissassembly. You can see it looks very different than the ex at this stage.
2. Mustang motor stripped down to long block (Ex looks pretty much the same at this point now that it is stripped too)
3. All the stuff I will not re-use from the mustang
4. Mustang motor staged for phase 1 reassembly with parts up to the lower intake.
The Ex wire harness is way simpler than the mustang. I was suprised by this. I will also will do in this phase valve covers/fuel rail/injectors/exhaust manifold/egr tube/lower intake/thermostat housing/oil pressure sensor/ps/ac bracket/crankase oil breather box and front and back breather tubes all from the explorer.
New parts needed in this phase are belt tensioner, valve cover/exhaust/lower manifold gaskets, thermostat housing seal, thermostat, thermostat seal, fuel injector o-rings, pcv valve which all will be in tomorrow.
Some parts I will need to go to the dealer as they were not available at advance or napa. Therm housing to block seal, therm housing seal, egr o-ring.
I will leave the water pump in and also use the mustang coil pack.
Just found out need to do the brakes on my kid's cavalier so I'll probably slow down a bit. See you soon.
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