Ford Mustang Engine Bay Overhaul

We now have an empty engine bay. This picture below was taken after the 5.0L engine was removed and placed on the engine stand as shown on the previous page.

You can see the engine is quite a mess and very dirty. That will all be cleaned up and painted later on in our Ford Mustang overhaul project. We will use a power washer with de-greaser to clean everything, remove some unneeded items to make bay less busy and then paint the whole engine bay with a gloss Rustoleum black paint to make it look nice.

The transmission torque converter is in the center of the picture. The transmission is being held up and into place by a thick wire and wood block underneath. If we did not use this wire or block, the transmission would drop to the ground since the engine was not holding it up. That would make re-installation of the engine very difficult. There might also be some damage caused.

Ford Mustang 5.0L V8 Engine Removed From Car.

The next step in our proect is to start taking the engine apart. After the engine is put on a stand, we will need to remove the lower intake manifold, both cylinder heads, timing chain cover, all brackets and oil pan. Then we can start removing the internal components- crankshaft, camshaft, piston rods and piston assemblies, valves from the heads, inspect all the bearings, timing chain and camshaft. Most of these parts will be replaced with new. We will send the bare block out to a machine shop to have cam bearings installed. This is the only procedure that we will have someone else do for us.


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The next pages will show the 5.0l engine being stripped down and detailed work on the cylinder walls, cylinder heads and valves, pistons and bearings. We will remove the ridge from the top of the cylinder walls and hone each one. We wwill also remove all valves, clean up the carbon, polish the combustion chambers and lap the valve faces to get a clean smooth surface. These special tools can be rented from any good local parts store or machine shop at a reasonable cost if you do not plan on doing this work alot and buy them yourself. Click thumbnail pictures below.


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