Well got my old engine out, pressure washed everything off. Looks clean now! Got my body mounts all on, Its not bolted solid yet. The body moved around a little bit. so I'm not sure how square it is. Everything is together anyways, I have a couple mounts that are almost rusted through. I make new ones of them after I get this thing going again. they will work good enough now. Got my new core support bolted in, its pretty much done, need to buy some lock nuts and new bolts but its all together. Got my new motor almost ready to be pulled out of the car. So my next days off Ill have the engine out and start prep on that. I have to cut part of the notch the oil pan to fit the ford starter. No big deal. My HD motor mounts came in, so Ill get them in.
ran into some issues with the radiator I ordered. First time around I used the stock Mercedes radiator but it was just to big, and had extra ports on it that could leak. The one that a guy told me worked good was a 66 mustang radiator, well Id have to cut up the core support to make it fit and I really don't want to do that this time. So I'm going to send that back and I ordered a 4 core thats a V8 swap radiator that fits in the core support. Cross my fingers that it works. I almost ordered it over this mustang one, but its more cutting than what needs to happen. Hopefully this one works with the stock mercedes fan also. Have high hopes there because I would rather not, run an electric fan if I don't need to. I understand why electric fans are better but I would rather just not if I don't have to. Moving forward anyways! The core support was easier than I thought it was.
Played around with round head lights. Its more work than I want to deal with right now. I have some fancy new LED ones that I was going to put in my ranger Ill just use on this thing.
