Engine Swap...wanna help

[LEB Ben]

haha, they wont let me.. thanks for the offer though.

Oh well...it would just be for the weekend.

If I was only closer id be there for sure.

ill help if you pay a plane ticket lol

You gays are cheap bastards...whats a few hundred bucks to meet a fellow FTF'er

 

[flareside_thunder]

I have an excuse...I'm unemployed......

 

[LEB Ben]

You gays are cheap bastards...whats a few hundred bucks to meet a fellow FTF'er

Wow...I really meant to say guys...guess it was Freudian slip...haha.

I have an excuse...I'm unemployed......

excuses excuses

 

[flareside_thunder]

Listen here Meow............

 

[LEB Ben]

Listen here Meow............

Alright Meow...Don't think meow...Do I look like a cat to you, boy? Am I jumpin' around all nimbly-bimbly from tree to tree? Am I drinking milk from a saucer? DO YOU SEE ME EATING MICE? No buts meow.

 

[flareside_thunder]

gawd I love that movie...anyways, I know it's just an in n out swap but good luck with it anyways.....still gonna be a PITA you gonna pull the front clip off?

 

[LEB Ben]

Yeah I love that movie too. Thanks for the luck. Not gonna pull the whole front clip...just the grille...engine work is one reason why I hate lifted vehicles...and I'm 6'5". One of my Dad's buddies was helping me with the carb when I first got it...he's 5'5" 140lbs and it was funny as hell watching him try to crawl around...eventually he just decided to sit on the inner fenders an core support.

 

[flareside_thunder]

Yeah I love that movie too. Thanks for the luck. Not gonna pull the whole front clip...just the grille...engine work is one reason why I hate lifted vehicles...and I'm 6'5". One of my Dad's buddies was helping me with the carb when I first got it...he's 5'5" 140lbs and it was funny as hell watching him try to crawl around...eventually he just decided to sit on the inner fenders an core support.

Hell I'm 6-1 220lbs and I do that...much easier!

 

[LEB Ben]

Hell I'm 6-1 220lbs and I do that...much easier!

I tried that when I was doing the timing chain...no inner fender should be subject to 320lbs. I ended up bending the inner and now my vacuum reservoir won't reach the second hole to bolt in.

 

[flareside_thunder]

Ahh well than you need the EFI way.......I lay a sheet of stiff cardboard down on top the motor from either the fender to the intake or from the core support to the intake and lay down on it.....makes it a crapload easier to swap headergaskets or spark plugs.

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

Sorry Ben but I aint got money enough to get out there. Take the front clip off its a hell of alot easier than the grille is. Or you could just take the hood off and pull the radiator and front accesories and do it that way. Thats the way I did it on the 72.

 

[LEB Ben]

Sorry Ben but I aint got money enough to get out there. Take the front clip off its a hell of alot easier than the grille is. Or you could just take the hood off and pull the radiator and front accesories and do it that way. Thats the way I did it on the 72.

No worries Dan...and yeah, I was gonna pull the hood and everything up front and go about it that way.

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

Its a little harder than pullin the front clip but its not that difficult to do.