Planing Oil Bath air cleaner

Will try to get this baby fit a 4 barell Holley 390 CFM carb and with a paper filter.

Aligning Waterpump, generator and Power steering pump pulleys

 

After getting my hand on the correct power steering bracket EDB-33559-A it was time to line up the pulleys to each other. First of water pump pulley to first row on the damper.
My puller was to small so had to take the pump of and get it to another workshop I can access.

Finally the correct P/S pump bracket arrived

 

Finally the correct bracket arrived to Sweden. I bought it from a nice gentlemen David Brown on a Facebook group, from USA. Unfortunately the Covid-19 had struck the shipping industry so no Airfreight was available. It was 1 day to late to for the first container shipment (apparently only one a month) to it sat in Chicago for a month LOL. Well their is one thing I have learned restoring a Ford made vehicle in Sweden is "PATIENT". Ordered it around 5th May 2020 got the delivery 5th of August 2020. 

Ram Horn Exhaust manifolds with stove black

 

Ignition wires, Generator, Started, Fuel pump, Oil filter, Heater shut of valve

Valve covers are only temporary, new better ones are on their way

Road draft tube & blocker water taps

Road traft tube mounted and also the Water jacks for the block coolant. I couldn´t resist the OCD impulse to make sure the taps where oriented horizontally when closed, on both sides. 

Engine to frame marriage

 

New clutch and pressure plate

 

Cam installation

Cam installed with assembly lube on bearings and run in paste on cam lobes.

Test fitment of Heads, intake and Waterpump

Well !!! the excitement was total LOL I am happy

Gluing Valley cover seal

Applying gasket glue on both block and gasket, but no glue between gasket and valley cover.

Painting of Bell housing, Heads, Intake, Valley cover, Water pump & Thermostat housing

Using Eastwood Enamel engine paint CAT Yellow. Yellow and rough cast iron is not the best combo. It took 5-6 coats to get a good cover.

Assembling valves

 

Painting inside of Bellhousing and Flywheel cover

 

Oxidizing Intake pin bolts

 

Head gasket, extra cooling holes

 The Feal Pro head gaskets suggest to drill some extra cooling jacks in between 2-3 & 6-7 cylinders to increase cooling for the gasket to extend the service life.
I masked of the cylinder decks to be able to work safely without risking to get some cutting into the cylinder bores.

Marking of the two holes to be drilled

Test fit of water and servo pump, pulley adjustments

 

Here I realized that I had the wrong servo pump bracket to fit the water pump pulley.

The bracket I have is for a Ford Thunderbird (ECD-33559)
The bracket I Need is (EDB-33559-A) that will clear the offset truck pulley. The hunt is on.

Fuel Pump Bolt Oxidization

Apparently the fuel filter I had been looking for for a long time was the wrong model, or actually for a separate fuel filter glas bowl, not this fuel pump. This fuel pump has a fine brass mesh in the top instead.
Took the NOS fuel pump appart to check that everything was in order, even the diaphragm rubber felt ok. However the bolt holding the pump together looked a little "aged". So i decided to try and black oxidize them slighlty in some oil.

Heat them with a torch and put them in some oil to cool down and wipe of.

Mouning harmonic damper

Time to mount the NOS harmonic damper, was a bit worried when it was time to mount the it. Earlier test mount had been difficult and it got stuck quite early, even without the key. However meticulous deburing of the shaft end,. and also the edges of the hole, cleaning and some grease made all the difference. It was tight but got it far enough by hand so that the bold got enough threads in, so that it could do the rest of the work. Torqued it down according to spec and with some loctite thread lock medium.

Mounting Oilpan and Oilpump