Saturday morning after breakfast = garage time! At the end of the last post I had just installed the transmission, and expended much energy getting the transmission crossmember into place and secured. It seemed like a great place to stop at the time. The engine bay is still looking very bare at this point:
However, the position of the engine block is now set, so I got started by cranking down all the bolts at the engine mounts:
Then I crawled back under the car, re-installed the driveshaft, and reconnected the cables for the park brake, which still needs some minor adjustment.
While I was there, I also re-installed the pitman arm...
...the front crossmember...
...and reconnected the cable clutch, which will also need some minor adjustment later:
I also re-installed the shifter stick and ran through the gears/slots with no obvious issues:
Now, at long last, I can start putting the engine bay back together. The first job was to re-install the headers with some new gaskets:
Both exhaust pipes were reconnected and torqued down:
Re-installed the double-groove pulley at the harmonic balancer:
Added the oil presser sender unit, the fuel pump and filter and connected the fuel lines:
The next thing to go back would be the radiator, but I want to pause the rebuild to add a new component. The Mustang has an MSD electronic ignition, and although I've never had any problems with mine, several friends have suffered with a "known issue" that can prevent the car from starting. The remedy, for a problem I don't think I've ever had, is to install an "inline filter capacitor" at the MSD box.
The most difficult part of the install was identifying the two wires I need to access and freeing them from the wiring loom. The RED (+ve) wire runs from the MSD box to the +ve battery terminal, and the BLACK (-ve) wire runs from the MSD box to ground at the frame:
As the name implies, the filter capacitor is installed inline which means stripping back about half an inch of the sheathing on each wire...
...and forming a loop which can the wrapped around the terminal:
The two (2) terminals at the filter capacitor are labelled +ve and -ve. The mounting bracket is attached to the inner fender apron with three (3) sheet metal screws:
Progress so far photo:
Progress so far from a distance photo:
No comments:
Post a Comment