Miscellaneous Engine Parts

Just a little more progress.

Some brackets, cover, and tag to install. I made two new head studs out of grade 8 bolts and blackened them. It's sad I see many cars that are missing things like tags, or the transmission cover or the safety retainers in the transmission mount.

I hate studs that come out when you try to remove the nuts so these are glued in.

First the York/Tecumseh base plate goes on first.

Then the power steering pump bracket and then the A/C idler pulley bracket goes atop the power steering bracket.

I thought it would be neat to include the original engine tag since it's visible. It's still a 1966 390, just no longer a horribly underpowered 'Y' code one. I put the tags on the power steering gear and power steering pump. I will make new tags for the transmission and rear axle since those are really modified and the original tag would be more meaningless.

Plus I like little things like this that shows attention to detail.

Even with the York 210 it will still be visible.

So this bar slips into the rear transmission mount and is the secondary retention should the rubber sheer. This car was missing it originally and this is why parts cars are so invaluable as trying to find these little pieces adds up really quick on places like E-Bay and even salvage yards.

This was another piece I needed to buy used as the original XL car was missing it and my parts car only had dealer installed air and had a 5 blade direct drive fan and that is not adequate for this application.

Now the used fan still had what looks like the original fan clutch and it's still quite viscous, but in no way would I trust a 50+ year old part that has a seal. I don't care if it still currently works or not.

Now it's starting to look more complete.

New lower radiator hose and these are the stainless steel hose clamps I use. I don't use that cheap garbage sold at autopart stores that seemingly fall apart and or corrode. I learned my lesson on those.

I've been using this rubber grease on hoses and it makes any future service really easy should you need to remove a hose rather than pry or damage stuck on hoses.

It's slowly getting there. I still have to modify the distributor, inspect and detail the brand new York 210, make a new engine dipstick tube, make a new kickdown rod and rebuild the power steering pump. Currently I'm working on the power steering pump and waiting for parts.

Just to recap here's what this used to look like when we first brought it home. This was as bought. What a nightmare... that's the polite way of saying, what a pile of ......

More to come..

Cheers

Note : About that 7 bladed original fan. I think there is a generic one that will fit aftermarket, but the original one I saw recently on Fleece-Bay was over 200 dollars. Yikes.....

I left the fan blades silver coloured because the radiator and fan shroud will be black and when you're working on it with it running, the silver blurr whizzing around catches the eye better than a black blurr

Cheers