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This is actually from awhile back.. but i thought i’d share it here for anyone interested.
Before/After: Rest of the pics below.
http://s43.photobucket.com/user/nytebladewow/library/escort%20rebuild
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[quote=”Monkey wrench” post=130015]Nice hows the progress coming?[/quote]
If your referring to my Escort engine swap.. It has been long gone and done! Those were the before/after pictures (before being torn apart, and after being complete.) I bought the car for $250 with a dropped valve seat.. replaced the engine & drove it for about 30,000 miles before selling it.
It was quite the project.. because at the time I was working 40-50 hours a week as a tech and i didnt have much of a home ‘tool set’ so i had to bring a lot of things home every night. My tools at the time consisted of Craftsman 250 piece socket/tool set and anything else i’d have to bring home. It was quite a project to tackle working between 8-5, 11-8 everyday and then coming home and wrenching on it on the side until 2-3am.. But at the time i was in desperate need of a car (how ironic.. not having a car and working on them all day) and did what i had to to make it work.
What made it worse was the first ‘donor engine’ had a bad bearing and i dropped it in without pulling the oil pan to check bearings.. fired it up and the damn thing sounded like a ball bearing in a metal paint can (i have a video around somewhere). Talk about being kicked in the face after all that work… But i was only disappointed for about 45 minutes. An hour later i was out there tearing it apart with full force & fury to get it running.
Anyway, long story.. didnt mean to throw the thread off-track. But its one of those things i’ll never forget. When i did get it running it was glorious to say the least.. The car was a constant money pit though.. and it really was a well taken care of car.. but it seemed no matter how much i pampered it.. it always wanted ‘more’ so i finally got fed up with it and sold it with 128k on the clock (bought it with a hair over 100k).
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