I've started working on removing the 2.0, with intent to rebuild. Details can be found here, with lots of pictures! (http://www.fuel-infection.com/2010/04/15/resurrecting-maisie-part-one/)
Some observations:
1. How in the $&#*%^@ is one supposed to change the starter on this car without pulling the engine? There's no way to get it out of there without lifting up the motor is there?
2. Cannot wait to chuck the AC compressor into the scrap-metal pile. Unless someone wants it, that is.
3. Exhaust header and intake manifold have been pulled; trans bolts are disconnected. Later this week, we'll see if we can't yank the engine out and start tearing it down.
Looking forward to watching your proggress!!
As far as the starter. We just had to R&R one and we had to take out the motor mount bolts and use a hoist to lift the motor up a bit. Even with that it was a job to get it in and out!
to cgange a starter you have to undo the motor mount and lift the engine or lower part of the suppension
Quote from: pintogirl on April 17, 2010, 08:41:51 PM
Looking forward to watching your proggress!!
As far as the starter. We just had to R&R one and we had to take out the motor mount bolts and use a hoist to lift the motor up a bit. Even with that it was a job to get it in and out!
Good to know. Will be sure to install a new one before the engine is back in place!
I can't tell you how exactly your car's condition is so like mine. Mine is not a Squire but it is yellow. Tried to put pictures up but I'm told they're too big??? Right down to the rusted battery tray. Good luck with that
I had to remove metal over a foot dia. just to get to something worth welding too. My starter was the motor mount. The rubbers were so collapsed that the starter rested on the cross beam. The C3 is history as is the A C pump. At this point I have the engine, trans, almost the complete dash, heater core and heater/ AC box removed. I plan on doing the same as you with regards to the engine. Maybe a cam and new pistons. Different carb and intake. I do have a grill, both blinkers are crumbling. The plastic was never meant to last 30 years. We've bitten off a big chunk, you more then me. Hope it's all worth it
I'm looking forward to seeing this one done. I have a 73 (Project Brownie in a thread here) that I am restoring as well. It's driving now, but no where near pleasant for the public to look at. I find it nice to look at, but I love looking at Pintos no matter what condition they are in! :D
Quote from: dave1987 on April 18, 2010, 07:02:13 PM
I'm looking forward to seeing this one done. I have a 73 (Project Brownie in a thread here) that I am restoring as well. It's driving now, but no where near pleasant for the public to look at. I find it nice to look at, but I love looking at Pintos no matter what condition they are in! :D
Au contraire Miseur Dave! If you were driving Brownie over here she would DEFINITELY be a pleasure to look at. Just ask me! ANY Pinto is a pleasure to look at in my not too humble opinion! ;D
Quote from: dave1987 on April 18, 2010, 07:02:13 PM
I'm looking forward to seeing this one done. I have a 73 (Project Brownie in a thread here) that I am restoring as well. It's driving now, but no where near pleasant for the public to look at. I find it nice to look at, but I love looking at Pintos no matter what condition they are in! :D
If I can get Maisie looking as good as Brownie does now, I'll feel like I've succeeded!
Mmaaiissiiee, Mmaaiissiiee
Ttteeelll mmmeee yyyooouuu lllooovvveee mmmeee dddooo
Ffffoooorrrr Iiii'mmmm hhhhaaaallllffff ccccrrrraaaazzzzyyyy
Fffffooooorrrrr aaaaa bbbbbiiiiicccccyyyyycccccllllleeeee bbbbbuuuuuiiiiilllllttttt fffffooooorrrrrr
ttttttttttttttttttwwwwwwwwwwwwwwoooooooooooooooooooooooooo..... :o
Quote from: dholvrsn on April 19, 2010, 08:49:20 PM
Mmaaiissiiee, Mmaaiissiiee
Ttteeelll mmmeee yyyooouuu lllooovvveee mmmeee dddooo
Ffffoooorrrr Iiii'mmmm hhhhaaaallllffff ccccrrrraaaazzzzyyyy
Fffffooooorrrrr aaaaa bbbbbiiiiicccccyyyyycccccllllleeeee bbbbbuuuuuiiiiilllllttttt fffffooooorrrrrr
ttttttttttttttttttwwwwwwwwwwwwwwoooooooooooooooooooooooooo..... :o
Now I'm going to have an uncontrollable urge to sing that song when I first fire her up...
Progress has been made, in spite of business trips and life-intervention this week. Working on Maisie is an interesting mental exercise. I think, "Holy sh!t, I don't know how to rebuild an engine! What the hell have I gotten myself into? I don't know what I'm doing!" Then I look at the next step, which says something like, "Disconnect throttle cable," and I think, "oh, okay, I know how to do that at least." So I do it. Then I look at the project and flail around thinking, "Gaah! What the hell am I doing? Someone's gotta do this for me, I'm not the right guy!" Then I look at the next step, which says something like, "Remove all vacuum and emissions lines from intake manifold." Well, okay, I know how to do that. So I do it...and so on, you get the point by now.
What's with every Ford product I've ever worked on having at least a half-dozen bolts that couldn't possibly have been installed by human beings, let alone be reached for removal? I'm sure most everybody here has been through this a thousand times, but I'm learning them all!
Pulling the exhaust manifold turned out to be a chore. The header to downpipe bolts are rusted solid and heat-welded together, as exhaust bolts often are, but this is a moot point as I can't get a wrench into a position where it will grab either of them. There's just not enough room down there for a wrench of any kind.
After some consideration, I determined that the battery tray and air conditioning compressor were hogging most of the space. The battery tray came out okay, but two of the AC compressor bolts are sandwiched between the compressor bracket and the engine block, with no clearance on either side. Oh, I can see them just fine, but lacking a monofilament 9/16-inch socket, there's no way I'm getting a wrench on them.
So, I decided to remove the exhaust header completely, leaving it attached to the downpipe. (I know I could take a hacksaw to the downpipe and take care of it that way, but Maisie's exhaust is actually reasonably solid and I hate to ruin it if I don't have to.) It'll still be in the way when the engine is pulled, but I'm hoping I'll be able to finesse things around so it'll slide out. Once the engine is out, there should be plenty of room to get in there and break the header/downpipe bolts loose.
The exhaust header is held on by eight bolts. Seven are accessible. One is sandwiched between the exhaust header, engine block and AC compressor. After some negotiating, I managed to get a wrench on it, and the exhaust header is freed from the engine block!
I'll bet most of you know where this is going. The header needs to slide about an inch and a half to come off of the studs and lift free. At an inch and a quarter, it bumps into the AC compressor and won't move any farther.
After I say a bunch of words my mother doesn't think I know, I calm down and break out my Awesome German Pliers to remove the studs. The threads on one of them get a little scrubbed, but I'll need to replace those anyway, right? Anyway, the header is free, a-balancing on the downpipe.
Removing the intake manifold was much easier. Haynes says to remove it, while Clymer doesn't, so I decided to pull it just in case. I'll get more pictures up at the blog shortly.
Next step: disconnecting the engine from the transmission!