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

 

Yamaha Air Box Pictures

 

MOPED PICTURES

 

Black Out the Tail Light Trim on my 76 Ford Pinto

I set about blacking out the tail light trim. First  I disassembled the taillights, they have 6-8 tabs on the back with a Phillips screw holding them. Once you have the screws out you can separate the trim from the lenses and gaskets. There are some pictures of the finished taillights but I lost the in-progress ones. The last picture is how they look on the car after paint.

The finished item on the car

I got this steering wheel several years ago and redid to for my Pinto. This wheel came from a Pinto ( I think ) since it has the tabs for the horn. Some steering wheels like this come from mustangs and they don't have the tabs for the horn since the horn was on the steering column like a blinker arm. Anyway feel free to comment and let me know if I'm right or wrong or just call me names.

This is about how it looked when I got it. I don't know if it was chrome that got repainted or black that was wearing off.

I sanded the wheel mostly by hand and scrubbed it down with rubbing alcohol to get it ready for primer.

I found a good use for the hood of my corvette, it is the perfect surface for a Ford Pinto Steering wheel.

Tape and primer nothing really exciting here.

Tape and primer nothing really exciting here.

Tape and primer nothing really exciting here.

It came out great I think. 

here it is in the car. I thought I took some better pictures. Ill add them in if I find them.

Thanks

Cleaning the heads and lapping the valves on a 2.8 V6 ford pinto

I took the engine apart some time ago and I am now getting to the clean and rebuild stage. The valves were shot.

Crack in the valve this was the worst one

I I loaded up my cart and got to it . Purple power from the dollar store did a surprisingly good job Ill spare you the details of scrubbing and spraying and having grease water and soap sprayed up my nose.

Then back to the work bench and I spent some time with the dremel and several brass wire wheels.

Now I need to lap the new valves its a simple process. get the tool the tool the compound and the valves and get to it. I watched so many videos of people who all claimed either they were experts or just guessing. Here is the way I do it. i cant say its the best way but it works.
1. clean everything with prep all or any wax, grease oil remover.
2.I use my gun cleaning rod and swab to do the valve guides
3. I put some compound on the valve on the lip then oil the guide and the stem.
4, Put the valve in and attach the tool.
5. I spin it until the noise changes and it gets quiet.
6. lift turn 1/4 turn and spin again until the noise stops. I repeat this 3 times on each valve.
Then clean and repeat on the next one. I test the work by dropping in both vales in the valve bowl  then filling it with fuel or alcohol. If they hold liquid with just the weight of the valve its done. Don't forget to put a spark plug in. As I said this is how I do it. I don't build engines for a living and my rebuilds have always been stock or just a small amount of  modification.

That is all there is too it keep the compound on the lip don't get it in the guide, I did a final clean with break-free and the gun cleaning rod , then coated it all with wd40 until i assemble it.

Please feel free to comment.