I was planning on throwing the bolts back on before I went any further with it anyways haha. I just wasn't sure if that was a okay with the aluminum heads or not. The front acc. bolt holes will work then? I could attach a couple more chains to that one from the back side to stabilize if need be. This would be my first time working with a mustang (admitted chevy guy, my thunderbird even hates me.)
1996 Mustang Engine Removal Question
Okay, so I've got a buddys' 1996 Mustang taking up space in my driveway. It started out that he blew a head gasket and was just going to replace it with another one of my friends at my house. Okay, no big deal. Well, the other buddy (not the cars owner, obviously.) who happens to be a big mustang guy and was the one who talked him into doing the gasket change himself in the first place kinda flaked out. So, i have a kid doing a head gasket job by himself for the first time right next to me while I'm working on my Camaro. I made the mistake of not paying attention to him for too long and he had a friend of his come over and try to help him get the head bolts off. Apparently the outside head bolts were fairly well frozen on there. Okay, so they bang on a socket and reef as hard as they can until two of said bolts round off. Not having the tools to deal with that, we opted to pull the motor instead since his uncle has a machine shop and it would just all around be easier that way. We have everything disconnected and it's read to come out, I just don't know where I should mount my chain to so I can pull it. The upper and lower intakes are out right now and the driver side head is being held on by two bolts. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Eddie.
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Yeah, I would agree that there is considerably more space under the hood of that mustang as opposed to my Camaro which has like none hahaha. whoever designed how that was all going to fit under there must have been really good at tetris. Yeah, I just wish he would have waited so I could help him get those bolts off the right way.. Oh well. I'll be pulling it in the afternoon (AFTER he helps clean the garage!)
I know, I handed him the torch and the liquid wrench but I guess he got impatient.. It was just a little torch but, I'd rather have him go slow than go too fast like he ended up doing anyways. Oh well, I'm sure I will be posting on here a bit more in the future. I wasn't there when they pulled most of the stuff because I didn't get involved until my buddy flaked on helping and by then it was already down to pulling the heads. Oh well, can't say anything now because it's already done. haha.
Okay, we got the motor out (took about forty five minutes but it's done. The only snags are he needs a new oil dipstick and a bolt sheared off in the back of the passenger side head but I don't think that head had anything in it anyways. Thanks for the help and I'll probably be asking for more help from you guys as the installation process starts. thanks
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So, the motor went into the shop yesterday and aside from a blow in the gasket the guy at the shop said there was damage to at least two pistons. Because of this, the guy at the shop said the block is toast. I thought that he said that because there was a crack in the cylinder wall or something (which I didn't see so far). I have some pictures I will be uploading later but I'm not sure if that is enough damage to fubar the motor, let alone it's just the piston domes.. Also, the guy told him that the 1996 3.8 from the mustang could ONLY be replaced with 3.8 from a 1996 mustang. I'm not very ford savvy and I have heard that they build the motors part specific, but I wouldn't think it would be THAT specific.:headscratch:
Okay, long time since I've updated on this. My buddy decided that it was too big of a job for him so he traded his mustang for someone elses broken car. That being said, the guy who he traded was actually pretty good about getting it back together and out of my driveway. I was pretty involved in getting it back in and buttoning it up. I know that there was small damage to the piston heads but I doubt that they were going to have any problem as far as getting it back on the road for a while longer. Well, the new owner of the mustang(a friend of the former owner) keeps on coming by to use my code reader because he still has a trouble code popping up. He is convinced that the problem is the computer so I thought I would try to get another(possibly more informed) opinion from some Oval guys. The DTC is P0122. It states itself as both a pending code and one that has already tripped. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm getting tired of him coming by SO MUCH, and I'm just too nice of a person to tell him to stop coming by ha ha.
Eddie.
Eddie.
How would I go about checking that? I also need to find out what he's changed out and what he's done to try to fix it. I know he changed so vacuum lines and a couple other things. I think he said he was replacing the wires that went to "it". at least, that's what he said.
I don't think my OBDII scanner has a live display, but I do have my handy dandy multimeter. :gringreen
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