Re- building the Ford Pinto V6 2800 cc This was for my 76 Pinto But ended up in my 79.

 This rebuild took me a couple months I think. I was building this for my 76 but as it turns out I needed it for my 79 wagons. ( Im working on the wagon now.) I bought this engine from a guy who assured me that it was good.🙈🙉🙊 I took the oil pan off the day I got it home and the oil pickup was full of blue silicone pieces. The lower timing gear ( the big one) had several missing teeth. You can see, in the first picture that the valves were shot as well.  BTW I just recently found all these pictures. I lost a couple Memory cards worth.

I tried to show the inside of the water jacket in the front left corner. There were 3 YES Three oild freeze plugs in the water jacket. It took me 2 days to get them out. I had to wedge them in and bend them, then grab them with needle nose pliers

My new set of valves, they were about 40 bucks then and haven't changed in price much since.

The first time through with the hone. I was lucky the cylinders were in good shape. Considering the rest of the engine. 

Overall it came out well. It is not a high-horsepower engine. I think it's about 120 HP all in. I wanted the V6 because I am going to tow a small camper with it. 

Lucky for me I still had the Corvette to keep the manuals on. it was a good pinto parts holder.

I did a complete valve job and each cylinder held fluid over night .

The crank going in is the last picture I found for the assembly. 

Rust conversion and undercoating on my 76 Pinto

 This is still back in 2012. Thw car is complete well mostly complete.

After pressure washing, scrubbing, and treating the underneath of the car, I used Barrier Bond and coated it all. 

The Barrier Bond converted any rust and I painted the entire underneath with black Rustoleum. Then I used a brush and 2 quarts of undercoating from Rustoleum also. 

Getting started with undercoating there is a big "EB" between the uni-body rail and the transmission tunnel I still don't have a clue what it's for.

I went to town on the undercoating. I made sure that every corner and bracket was done.

Power Washing the underneath of the Pinto

 After I got it up on its side, I removed everything that wasn't already gone. All the lines mounts and brackets that came off did. I then washed it several times with a detergent soak in-between.

As you can see there was very little rust on the floor. Some surface  rust that I was bale to treat and has never come back. I used rust mort it worked great .

You can see one spot here where I had to weld in a patch at the back bolt on the drivers side. I used a small piece of angle iron that I flattened a bit then just burned it in.

I did remove the clutch cable and heater hosers when it came back down I'm not sure why I left them before I put it up.

Now I can start on the protection coats and the repair of the battery tray area.

I cant believe that is has been 10 years since I did the Pinto

 I found these pictures recently. They are of the fist time the Pinto came out of the garage on my "Redneck Rotisserie" . 

This is the first time it comes out after being stripped of all its parts. I stopped because I was afraid it would roll away from me .

Of course it rained the first day I had to work on it.

Its up! I had four people over to help ... Cost? Beer and pizza. As it turns out it took one person to lift it.

Just stared at it for a few minutes before i started work

Ford Pinto V6 2800cc engine cleaning pictures

 

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