OK, picture posts! Engine sits waiting for hoist connection and "drop-in" tomorrow! All the small work that I can think of for the moment is done....
Fuel line fitting is complete.
Side view of lower line.
Closer- good view of the oil sender extension fit. Valve covers will go on once the engine is in place. Newspaper is to keep crap out of the 3.5 qts of oil that are in the pan after priming it..
Shot of the top section of the hard line splice. Got much better with my tubing flare kit...after I found that greasing the various bits and oiling the threads of the forming/pushing tool made things work much more smoothly! (we'll see how good I did once we pressurize the fuel line!!!)
Here's the carb balance/feed tube that I formed up, and new bowl fittings for the 5/16" line. I used a Dominator front bowl, which has two threaded inlet holes on it, like the old factory Ford Holleys used on the 390GT and 428. On those, the line went under the choke housing.... I had to go out and around the side, plus over the top of the jackshaft bracket!
Front view. Watch out for the "hot connection" to the choke!
Special coolant "Y" pipe that was found in the Goose. I copied an original in heavy wall (thin wall would have been fine!) stainless last time around...as all I got with my car was about a 3" piece that was in the final stages of rotting away...
Top view where it attaches to the special thermostat housing (which houses no thermostat in the stock form....) and you may just be able to make out the thermostat adapter, which now measures a much thinner 1/8"!
View from the top side.
View of the RH side, water pump inlet where I had to remove material from the timing cover fitting for clearance.
Same view from a little further back. Front jackshaft bracket attachment can be seen. Dipstick bracket. T-stat spacer in place.
Rear of the intake manifold where I had a piece welded on, to attach the rear of the jackshaft bracket in the stock manner. Only the stock cast iron 1968-1969 type 4V intakes have the boss for this as far as I know. Good shot of my custom made throttle return spring bracket on the left side of the picture, the PCV hose & fittings, and the vacuum hardline tube for the power brakes. This tube will be bent up a bit more to flow around the head. It's still in it's form as removed from the old engine.
Just a view of the business part of the jackshaft feature.... I wonder about the belt fit....the adjuster is out to the extent of it's extension!
Back at it later today!!!
Steve
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