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    12/04/2019 12:10 AM  #26

    Cab4word67
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    Re: The treasures you find in your pan

    thanks everyone. cant  wait tell friday when I can pull the chain, clean parts and start painting and  puttin things back together so i can get the rearend serviced. Oh so much to do, thank god for heated garages

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    12/04/2019 6:59 AM  #27

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    Re: The treasures you find in your pan

    Cab4word67 wrote:

    Any recommendations on a good solvent to use in my new parts washer to clean up the old girl?

    Diesel. The least expensive parts cleaner you can buy.
     

     

    12/04/2019 7:24 AM  #28

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    Re: The treasures you find in your pan

    Yeah, not a bad way to go, or Kero.  All the parts washer solvents I've bought in the last couple years are some low VOC, environmentally friendly crap that, as you'd expect, don't work anywhere near as well as the old stuff did.  I will say, if you got a HF parts washer, or any cheaper model, get some weatherstripping and make a seal for the lid or you whole shop will stink of whatever you use as a solvent.  I also mounted a magnet to the wall behind the lid for mine to act as a hold open.  Also, the parts tray they come with is super flimsy.  If you ever need to clean anything heavy like a cylinder head, etc. it will bend and fail.  I welded a couple pieces of 1x1 square tube steel to mine to make rails that so far have supported everything I've laid on it. 

    Harbor Freight stuff is what it is, a lot cheaper than the professional grade stuff you can buy, but it usually needs some work to be serviceable for anything other than the occasional light duty project.  I still buy most of my stuff there.  I have a press, parts washer, and blast cabinet that have all been with me for over a decade.  With a couple of tweaks they all work quite well. 
     

     

    12/04/2019 10:52 PM  #29

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    Thanks everyone. Its been some time since I cleaned part so I found a TS and thought I would drive out there this  weekend and get some but they are shipping me a 5 gal of PSC 1000 for a total of $43.00 it says free shp. Cant go wrong I guess. I could of used my Hot tank but thats a $150.00 for the 5 gal I would need of Blue Gold. We will use the free new solvent tank from graingers this time. 

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    12/08/2019 7:43 PM  #30

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    I removed the timing chain and gear set today. It was a nylon upper gear with all teeth in tack and no funny plastic missing,so now I don't know where the plastic came from. Also i cant figure out the oil drive shaft keeper came off. The shaft definitely had it on at one time from the marks on it. But how did it get into the pan?. Every part I have removed does say Ford but then the dealer is where the car when for any and all repairs. 

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    12/09/2019 5:59 AM  #31

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    Re: The treasures you find in your pan

    It got in the pan because someone pulled the distributor, the shaft was stuck in it, and the collar came off the shaft instead of the shaft coming out of the distributor.  If the person who did it didn't know Fords well he may well have assumed that what happened was normal, and not know there was a round piece of metal in the pan.  Or he thought it couldn't get sucked up by the pickup and it wasn't going to hurt anything, and truthfully, he would probably have been correct.  I've pulled all kinds of stuff out of good running engine oil pans before.  I pulled three fishhooks out of a T5 one time.  I think the previous rebuilder couldn't figure out how to get the input shaft onto the mainshaft. 

     

    12/19/2019 9:33 PM  #32

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    Re: The treasures you find in your pan

    ITS ALIVE...new TC and oil pump along with all the needed gaskets.  Started right up after the fuel got to the carb, Ran it up to temp, and checked for leaks. had one little one on bottom inlet of water pump. Will check again in AM for leaks and clean up the tools and move on to the rear end. Thank you all again for the helpful input. 
    Chris

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    12/20/2019 7:35 AM  #33

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    Nicely done!

     

     

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