That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!!Awesome. It's going to be great for you to be able to beat the **** out of the engine without worrying about it unraveling apart on you.
I did a little bit this morning. Nothing is torqued down because I didn't have a torque wrench on-hand. I still have to drill out a couple of rivets on the MLS head gaskets so I didn't want to torque them down anyway.
Just set the intake up there for kicks. I don't have the intake gaskets yet.
I thought I might need to get the intake port matched to the heads....I guess I was wrong.Remember this is with no intake gaskets so these ports might actually mate up close to perfectly.
I'm married. My car doesn't even stay at my house. I keep at one of my dad's properies that's not in use. My car has its own house and the engine and the rest of the parts have their own room in that house! I'm just hoping to be finished with my car before my dad sells it. If I kept my car at my house it would NEVER get touched....EVER! A wife and 2 small kids is a recipe for NEVER being able to do what you want to do.Ah.. I remember the days of having my parts inside my house before I got married.... good times. Somehow my car stuff kept getting pushed out more and more to the garage.
I actually haven't tallied my total amount spent in a while but I'm sure I'm close to the 10k mark. All this stuff adds up quick...especially when you're getting most of the stuff new. The problem is that I'm not finished purchasing parts.not a bad way to spend 10k lol
Well, its been a LOOOOONG time since I've been able to turn some wrenches on my car. The summer came and went and I haven't had a chance to touch it.....until today. I finally pulled the rearend out. I'm taking it to work tomorrow to hopefully take it apart and at least START cleaning it so I can bring it to the shop next week for it to get assembled with all the new stuff.
Here's what I did today.
I also took a pic of how bad the UCA bushings look. It's an indication of how ALL the bushings on the car look.
Ok so what's the trick to getting those bushings out? I think I read somewhere(probably here) that you have to drill through the rubber then beat the rest out. Is that the best/easiest way to do it?
It's probably too late,...but I'll offer it anyway since I just dealt w/ mine tonight. The drill method works sometimes. You just run a bit down into the old bushing, along the edge, and the bit will just walk around the inside of the shell. As bad as yours' are. I doubt that that'll be the case.
I chose the burn and beat method,..it took all of 5 minutes. Get a torch, and heat the bushing shell until you see that bushing start to ooze and push out (also on fire). Have a piece of tubing and a 2 lb mallet standing by so that after it starts burning, you can whack it. It takes about 3-5 good whacks, and the thing should start to come out. Once it does,.It's gonna come out the next whack.
Mike, for years I've used the drill method, a torch. air chisel, and then a few years back bought the tool from MM. I kicked myself in the ass for not getting it sooner the first time I used it, as it made the job so much easier. Problem is I loaned it to a buddy a while back and now he can't find it.....
Forgot my Rule #1. Never loan your tools.
That rule ranks up there with never let anyone drive your Mustang. I let my girlfriend after asking and asking to drive my supercharged Mustang, and to this day I cannot believe I said "give it some gas", .... three donuts, two cracked rims, bent contro arms, and a busted axle later..................
Sorry to hear that.
I don't know how much your bushing removal tool cost you, but I'd be calling dude that has it, and letting him know how much it cost to replace it.
You must replace a lot more of those things than I do to justify "a tool" to do it. Seems it's about every 5 years or so that I go through the new car old bushing thing. Unless that tool is cheap, or amazing,.....I'll use my torch.
I've gotta friend that wants badly for me to drive for him at the drag strip in his 7.0 car. I keep telling him no, that I don't want to be at the wheel if something goes wrong and it ends up against a guard rail.
It's probably too late,...but I'll offer it anyway since I just dealt w/ mine tonight. The drill method works sometimes. You just run a bit down into the old bushing, along the edge, and the bit will just walk around the inside of the shell. As bad as yours' are. I doubt that that'll be the case.
I chose the burn and beat method,..it took all of 5 minutes. Get a torch, and heat the bushing shell until you see that bushing start to ooze and push out (also on fire). Have a piece of tubing and a 2 lb mallet standing by so that after it starts burning, you can whack it. It takes about 3-5 good whacks, and the thing should start to come out. Once it does,.It's gonna come out the next whack.
Yep! Hopefully before the summer so I can get a good performance tune before the extreme southern heat sets in.Awesome! Going to get it done by summer?
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