Engine cleaned painted and powder coated. Should go in this week sometime. That will give me a few weeks to drive before the mini meet...
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Engine cleaned painted and powder coated. Should go in this week sometime. That will give me a few weeks to drive before the mini meet...
Looks nice, perhaps we can bookend the club cars with our vans :BEER:
Very nice looking Steve. Should run a lot better now.
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Hope to have it running this weekend. Then go through the brakes, and clean and adjust the shifter and should be in business. I'll keep y'all posted.
Thanks for the reminder. I gotta pull my shifter out of my wagon as well as the pedal assembly. Getting too hard to use the clutch and the shifter assy is ratty and loose. Have another to get parts from now, so will make it better. Can't imagine the shifting mess from a van like that. It's hard enough when they are 12" long. What kind of transmission did this have?
Yup. Lookin' good. Love those Ford BLUE motors!
It has the stock 3 speed in it for now. Brian picked me up a 9" out of a parts Van so I will switch to an auto and 9" this winter maybe..?
Yeah, I guess it would be hard to put a floor shifter into one of these - wouldn't it? Even with an automatic, it would be kind'a tough. What sort of things have people done for this?
I think there is room to put one of those Lokar shifters in there. I stink a stick you would be banging your knuckles off the dash and the doghouse??
I will probably use the same shifter I put in the delivery just a longer handle.
New engine is in and running, now to button up the cooling system and on to the brakes.. Runs great hope I can make it stop as well...
Looks like you got 'er in and hooked it up the best you could just to hear it run. Pretty cool.
On another note about these vans, I know somebody who has one of these with the extended tail-end and was used as a fire department truck. Pretty good shape and I think he's selling it for about $2500. I plan to take some pictures and post it for him.
And before it's said... no, I don't need a van too.
Yes just to get it running before I put the doghouse back on. It really gets in the way.
By the way did all of you guys know that the starter solenoid has to be grounded to work?? Took me about an hour to figure that out. Usually just bolt them to the fender and go... Also if your remote starter switch fails you engine will run until you pull the coil wire off.. Hmmm the things you learn..
Ran the Van for a while last night and seemed to be getting a lot of blow back through the oil fill cap? Then I noticed it coming from around the exhaust, and then through the little lubrication port on the distributor? I think my muffler is plugged. I smacked it with a hammer this am and it sounded like a solid chunk??? Hmmmm. I guess I need to open that up and inspect Yeah!!!!!!!:sawzall:
Anyone else had this problem?
Is this a PCV system? Do you have all the right filler caps and PCV valve on the engine? Internal pressure should be nil if all that is good and the motor actually has rings.
A muffler that is clogged isn't good, but the motor would probably instead just die because it can't breathe (on the combustion side, not the crankcase side). I don't think it could cause more blow-by without also some other obvious issues too.
I see in the pictures the PCV system. Pull it while it is running and see if there is a lot of pressure pushing out where it is pushed into the valve cover. Rattle the PCV make sure it is clear. Make sure the vacuum port on the carb adapter is sucking strong. Make sure the PCV hose is good. All little things, but gotta check 'em.