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Mustang5L5 · Oct 16, 2019

Just chipping away at cleaning these pistons up. Lots of elbow grease and care to not use anything that would leave little abrasive bits everywhere. 5 done but I’ll likely go back over them one more time.

First pass on pass side bank

5 and 6 cylinder. Before and after

Mustang5L5 · Oct 19, 2019

No work this weekend. Away with the wife for our 3rd wedding anniversary

Mt Washington hotel Resort, Bretton woods NH. Built in 1902

Mustang5L5 · Oct 20, 2019

Drive home

Mustang5L5 · Oct 20, 2019

One more good one from today I had on my phone. Awesome area.

Mustang5L5 · Oct 21, 2019

Worked a bit on cleanup late last night.

About as far as I can take cleaning the pistons without using scotch brite or anything that I don’t want little shards of getting in the engine. Just used solvents (simple green/marvel mystery oil) and plastic tools here.

Pulled the factory block heater plug. The wingnyt was busted. The only thing sealing the screw from leaking was the threads. As you may have seen this was starting to leak a tad. No idea how I would have done this with engine in car

Now to clean up the timing cover gasket surface and the block deck and then get ready for paint.

Mustang5L5 · Oct 21, 2019

Little experiment. Picked up s can of this. Supposed to be pretty good at removing carbon. Pretty caustic stuff though, and label is full of cancer and other health warnings.

I’ve read about leaving it in for too long and destroying the piston/cylinder, so I decided to try it on my heads since they are likely boat anchors now considering the valve seals are mostly petrified and they need a rebuild

Let’s see what happens on that one combustion chamber

Mustang5L5 · Oct 21, 2019

Olivethefet said:
That's just code for "The Good Stuff".

Surprised Cali hasnt moves to ban it yet

Olivethefet · Oct 21, 2019

I dont see MethelEthelDeath listed in the active ingredients, so it cant be that bad......

General karthief · Oct 21, 2019

No worries, just don't drink it or touch yourself without washing your hands first

Davedacarpainter · Oct 21, 2019

General karthief said:
No worries, just don't drink it or touch yourself without washing your hands first

I NEVER touch myself without washing my hands first........

Mustang5L5 · Oct 21, 2019

2 hours later....didn’t do jack. Even with a reapply and light agitation

Mustang5L5 · Oct 21, 2019

Pulled the pump to change out the brittle gaskets. Pressure was fine.

Clean up and reuse? Rebuild? Or get new stuff?

Mustang5L5 · Oct 21, 2019

HotFox said:
Come on

Valid argument.

Ok, i'll think about it....seriously.

95BlueStallion · Oct 21, 2019

That is why I ended up picking up my 347 shortblock. Once I had all the parts gathered, I started getting second thoughts about bolting them on my 112k mile shortblock. I stumbled on a good deal though, and the PO had all the receipts from Woody. Otherwise I may have just pushed forward.

Wayne Waldrep · Oct 21, 2019

I'd be fine leaving the shortblock as is but I'd definitely put a new oil pump. You got the dough for that!

Mustang5L5 · Oct 21, 2019

Anyone recognize this little bit? Found it in the bottom of the oil pan as I was cleaning/inspecting it. No other metal or shavings found...just this.

It’s not a ball...it looks like a tiny freeze plug

I feel like I’ve seen this before somewhere

Mustang5L5 · Oct 21, 2019

More inspecting. Finally took a closer look at the heads. Wtf is going on here?

Looks like a layer of carbon, and then a separate layer formed on top on the valve.

Lots of carbon in here. No wonder I had problem running 10 degrees of timing and 87 octane.

I should probable rehone and rering this anyway...just to be sure it’s vskve seals. I had great compression on this

Mustang5L5 · Oct 21, 2019

HotFox said:
Good God they were using aluminum housing pumps at one point. Wonder how long that was?

I was kinda surprised too to see an aluminum pump as well. 60s engineering part number and a 1987 cast date.

Did ford ever go factory cast iron on the sn95 or explorers?

Mustang5L5 · Oct 21, 2019

So...just surfing around researching...interesting dyno.

331 w/AFR165 and a few intakes. Gt40, Holley ststemmax, and then gt40 and explorer with porter lower.

Interesting how the gt40 and explorer were not similar at all despite the claims.

FYI I was planning on running explorer with ported lower...looks like I need to find a gt40.

@95BlueStallion you might be interested in this

View: https://youtu.be/zmfz5caUNWY

Steel1 · Oct 22, 2019

Looks like the wheels are turning, maybe this turns into a stroker build ?
Why not your doing 90% of the work anyways, unless funds are tight.

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