Good Girl, Bad Girl.

[fahrenschnell]

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Nice Fairlane.....I have always liked that particular model.

Good Buy.

Seth

[milner351]

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Those heads look good in that fairlane!

Now - you need to sell the comet ( the tripower FE intake is listed ) and get the fairlane up and ready to rock and roll in the spring.

[mlcraven]

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Neat collection...the Comet and Fairlane in partic. Obviously lots of guys are Mustang fans but I prefer the mid-size and full-size Fords. Good luck putting the big motor into the Comet, certainly a lot less hassle to go with a stroker small-block.

[fordman]

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Is my truck rusty enough for a sticker?

[BluLightning]

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Man, I have a couple of Lightnings who's beds look worse than that... and they're not supposed to be trucks. ; )

Hey, what's that supposed to mean? Just kidding, mine doesn't haul much anyway.

[fordman]

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Some thick metal on these old trucks, takes a long time for the rust to eat through it.

[fordman]

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Decided to brave the cold and started working on the fairmont. Pulled the motor back out and disassembled it to id the parts. I had my son help me, a little bond time.

That is some old oil

It's a roller. For a 1989 EFI it still had a fuel pump eccentric



Now I have to clean the parts!

[fordman]

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Yes that is a fuel pump eccentric on a EFI motor. The timing cover also has the boss for the pump, but it is cast closed. I pulled this motor out of a 1989 towncar. I think at the time some of the trucks had carburetors.

[fordman]

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It even has the 302 firing order and not the 351w firing order.

[fordman]

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I think it is E8SE? ???

[Shawn Anderson]

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It even has the 302 firing order and not the 351w firing order.

I think all no H.O. motors have that firing order, H.O. had the 351 firing order because they had a marine 351w cam

[milner351]

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I think you'll be better off using your '87 heads, we can look at my '89 heads, but I think there is at least one cracked exhaust valve in them.

We can compare my '89 mustang shortblock to this one - maybe learn a few interesting things.

Nice work.

[fordman]

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Started work on the fairmont today. Found a small rust hole that turned out to be a large hole.




So I headed to Smead steel and picked up some square tube started to fix it I ran it back to the firewall.

[Silver68RT]

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Wow, that rust looks pretty bad. Parts of my Escort are starting to look like that. How's the rest of the car? 5.0 in the Focus might be a better plan.

I think I'm going to check out that junkyard in that Tom was talking about in Taylor tomorrow. Need me to keep an eye out for anything?

[milner351]

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Geeze Doug - the guy's got enough projects - don't start planting any more seeds about 302 focus wagons... .just find him a good trans to stuff in the wagon! ;D