Gearheadloco
LVC Member
Hi LS fans,
When I was a kid I helped my greatest generation Dad (honorably discharged from the Navy a month before December 7th 1941 and promptly re-enlisted!) who was the best auto mechanic in the world, bar none. Well that's what I thought at age 12. For as long as I could remember we always drove old cars that someone had blown up and traded into Mancini's Chrysler-Plymouth in Mountain View, California, where my dad worked. He would bring them home on a tow-truck hook and in a matter of a few weekends, someone in our family of seven would be driving it.
The Chrysler inline slant 6 engine was my favorite. I think even the radiator was cast iron. It must of weighed more than the car, and I don't think you could kill one with a bomb. My part of the routine was to hold the trouble light, clean parts in something really nasty that would dissolve human teeth and then, as a reward, I got to spray paint the engine. My dad was a stickler - it had to be the color of the engine when new. I'm surprised my kids don't have two heads.
So dad, sorry but this 2001 Lincoln 3.9L V8 is all wrong. This is the color of a mid to late 50's Lincoln cast iron block and head V8. My engine is aluminum and was never meant to be painted, but I don't care I'm painting it anyway because that's something we always used to do.
It's kind of an insane asylum institutional green if you ask me, but it looks good up against the black engine compartment. Anyway, try not to get sick looking at the picture. I think my dad would be proud of the rebuild, but probably not the color choice.
Phil
San Diego
P.S. Don't worry, I'm going to replace the front main seal during assembly. I left the old one in to keep paint off of the mating surface.
ALSO - learned something interesting today. The Jaguar 4.0L V8 uses torque-to-yield (TTY) bolts for the connecting rod caps, which isn't that unusual. Most other important bolts in the bottom end are to be torqued twice and then discarded. Jaguar mechanics are supposed to use a punch to mark any non-TTY bolts not already marked as they reassemble, and discard and replace those fasteners that were marked by a previous mechanic. I'm going to do the same thing with my 3.9L.
When I was a kid I helped my greatest generation Dad (honorably discharged from the Navy a month before December 7th 1941 and promptly re-enlisted!) who was the best auto mechanic in the world, bar none. Well that's what I thought at age 12. For as long as I could remember we always drove old cars that someone had blown up and traded into Mancini's Chrysler-Plymouth in Mountain View, California, where my dad worked. He would bring them home on a tow-truck hook and in a matter of a few weekends, someone in our family of seven would be driving it.
The Chrysler inline slant 6 engine was my favorite. I think even the radiator was cast iron. It must of weighed more than the car, and I don't think you could kill one with a bomb. My part of the routine was to hold the trouble light, clean parts in something really nasty that would dissolve human teeth and then, as a reward, I got to spray paint the engine. My dad was a stickler - it had to be the color of the engine when new. I'm surprised my kids don't have two heads.
So dad, sorry but this 2001 Lincoln 3.9L V8 is all wrong. This is the color of a mid to late 50's Lincoln cast iron block and head V8. My engine is aluminum and was never meant to be painted, but I don't care I'm painting it anyway because that's something we always used to do.
It's kind of an insane asylum institutional green if you ask me, but it looks good up against the black engine compartment. Anyway, try not to get sick looking at the picture. I think my dad would be proud of the rebuild, but probably not the color choice.
Phil
San Diego
P.S. Don't worry, I'm going to replace the front main seal during assembly. I left the old one in to keep paint off of the mating surface.
ALSO - learned something interesting today. The Jaguar 4.0L V8 uses torque-to-yield (TTY) bolts for the connecting rod caps, which isn't that unusual. Most other important bolts in the bottom end are to be torqued twice and then discarded. Jaguar mechanics are supposed to use a punch to mark any non-TTY bolts not already marked as they reassemble, and discard and replace those fasteners that were marked by a previous mechanic. I'm going to do the same thing with my 3.9L.
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