Hey everyone, I'm Nate.
My wife recently caught the car bug when we took her Fiesta ST to an autocross event. Now she wants to race and learn to fix up cars! I'm so proud! Anyways, in order to not beat up her daily driver, she convinced her brother to give us his old 1990 Mustang LX 5.0 to turn into an autocross racer. It has been sitting still in central California for the past 6 years, but we drove down from eastern Washington to rescue it and brought it back up to work on.
Our first plan of action is to see if the engine will start. No point in doing anything to the car without a working engine, right?
So that brings me to my first question:
My initial idea was to drain the old oil and remove, clean, and reinstall the oil pan... and then I read how involved that process really is. So my question is this; what is the best way to clean out the oil pan? My new plan is to drain whatever I can, change the filter, and refill with cheap conventional oil and seafoam. Then, if the engine starts, we let it run and clean itself out. Does that sound about right? And a co worker suggested priming the oil pump. Is this a good recommendation? If so, is it pretty easy to do (minus the removal of the distributor)?
Other actions that I plan to take before attempting to start the engine include:
-Air filter
-Empty, drop, and clean fuel tank
-Fuel filter
-Inspect distributor and plugs
Anyone have any input on what else should be done? Remember, we just need the bare minimum to get the engine to fire up, so we are ignoring brakes, transmission, etc.
Thanks in advance. I look forward to learning a lot from these forums!
My wife recently caught the car bug when we took her Fiesta ST to an autocross event. Now she wants to race and learn to fix up cars! I'm so proud! Anyways, in order to not beat up her daily driver, she convinced her brother to give us his old 1990 Mustang LX 5.0 to turn into an autocross racer. It has been sitting still in central California for the past 6 years, but we drove down from eastern Washington to rescue it and brought it back up to work on.
Our first plan of action is to see if the engine will start. No point in doing anything to the car without a working engine, right?
So that brings me to my first question:
My initial idea was to drain the old oil and remove, clean, and reinstall the oil pan... and then I read how involved that process really is. So my question is this; what is the best way to clean out the oil pan? My new plan is to drain whatever I can, change the filter, and refill with cheap conventional oil and seafoam. Then, if the engine starts, we let it run and clean itself out. Does that sound about right? And a co worker suggested priming the oil pump. Is this a good recommendation? If so, is it pretty easy to do (minus the removal of the distributor)?
Other actions that I plan to take before attempting to start the engine include:
-Air filter
-Empty, drop, and clean fuel tank
-Fuel filter
-Inspect distributor and plugs
Anyone have any input on what else should be done? Remember, we just need the bare minimum to get the engine to fire up, so we are ignoring brakes, transmission, etc.
Thanks in advance. I look forward to learning a lot from these forums!