I painted the bare aluminum valve covers on my Mach 1. It was annoying with everything looking new and clean, then you see those ugly things messing up the look. I took about a week to get to this point putting in a few hours after work everyday. Learn how I got them out at the bottom.
The pictures are way too large to directly post so goto http://home.comcast.net/~larrendeuce/Mustang%20Mach%201.htm
to see them full size. I used 3 coats self etching primer, 2 coats color, and 2 coats clear. The Valve covers are Ford Dark Shadow Grey (CX), and the Coil covers black. I plan on putting them on this weekend and taking some more shots of everything assembled.
I haven't been able to find much useful information on removing the valve covers in online fourms, manuals, or even with my friends access to the ford tech website. I needed to remove the shaker, disconnect the fuel line over the passenger side cover, and I bent the ac lines out of the way. The throttle body needed to come off, and the air intake box, hoses, etc. It was a tight fit but it comes out. On the drivers side the powersteering reservoir and bracket were unbolted and moved aside. The hydro-boost unit is a real pain. 1 bolt on the firewall, 4 under the dash(3 on the booster 1 on the pedal bracket. After the pedals were unbolted the clutch cable came off the stock plastic quadrant and then unbolted from the firewall. The hydro-boost needs to come out of the firewall, 2 bolts holding the master cylinder to it and it will pull twards the front of the car at about a 15* angle. I was able to move the master cylinder enough that I didn't need to disconnect the brake lines. After all that, the drivers cover comes out.
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The pictures are way too large to directly post so goto http://home.comcast.net/~larrendeuce/Mustang%20Mach%201.htm
to see them full size. I used 3 coats self etching primer, 2 coats color, and 2 coats clear. The Valve covers are Ford Dark Shadow Grey (CX), and the Coil covers black. I plan on putting them on this weekend and taking some more shots of everything assembled.
I haven't been able to find much useful information on removing the valve covers in online fourms, manuals, or even with my friends access to the ford tech website. I needed to remove the shaker, disconnect the fuel line over the passenger side cover, and I bent the ac lines out of the way. The throttle body needed to come off, and the air intake box, hoses, etc. It was a tight fit but it comes out. On the drivers side the powersteering reservoir and bracket were unbolted and moved aside. The hydro-boost unit is a real pain. 1 bolt on the firewall, 4 under the dash(3 on the booster 1 on the pedal bracket. After the pedals were unbolted the clutch cable came off the stock plastic quadrant and then unbolted from the firewall. The hydro-boost needs to come out of the firewall, 2 bolts holding the master cylinder to it and it will pull twards the front of the car at about a 15* angle. I was able to move the master cylinder enough that I didn't need to disconnect the brake lines. After all that, the drivers cover comes out.
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