The power steering pump has two returns!
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Gotta love the industrial engine design! I think I'm going to run the hydroboost setup I bought off RJ last year. This thing should stop on a dime.
I've got to do some wiring clean-up in the engine bay:
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Since I'm an apprentice wireman, using the Ford wiring diagrams to determine what can be eliminated will be good practice. (Judging by how little wiring the 4BT has, I think it's going to be most of what's pictured.) If you look closely at the second picture in post #24, you can see the wiring harness that is attached to the backside of the core support hanging down between the sway bar and pitman arm. That thing is ridiculously large. There are all sorts of wires that won't be needed. If I do this right, I think I can eliminate the entire wiring harness and run the few wires that will be needed on the passenger side above the engine against the firewall. I'm going to buy larger clips to replace the factory Ford clips that are used to route the low and high pressure AC lines against the firewall.
My plan as of now for the engine bay: relocate the battery to the driver's side where the radiator overflow/windshield washer fluid reservoir was. I'll need to relocate the starter solenoid and possibly some other things over there, I haven't figured out all the specifics yet. I'll have to run the cable from the battery to the starter to the passenger side, but that's easy. I'm going to build a custom cold air intake in the location where the battery used to reside. I may install a water/**** injection system (just for kicks). Haven't figured out what will go where for that system, though. The AC will be functional, I'll have to buy the bracket and pulley from AutoWorld. This is what I want it to look like:
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This is a pic I found somewhere (when you look around on different forums for ideas as much as I do, it's easy to forget what you saw where). It may be PAPEcat's setup, I can't remember. Credit to the original poster.
Everything but the fuel supply and return lines, the fuel pressure line (for the pillar-mounted ISSPRO gauge), the engine mounts and the transmission are disconnected. My plan was to pull the engine this morning. I stopped by my local Harbor Freight last night to pick up their 2000 lb. engine stand. It was out of stock. They're supposed to be getting more tomorrow. If everything works out like I hope it will, the engine will be on the stand next Friday or Saturday. I think I'll get a whole engine gasket kit, it is leaking from more spots than just the oil pan gasket.
I'll also need to replace the rear transmission mount and the wear parts for the stick shifter. The rear transmission mount I can get from NAPA, but the wear parts for the shifter I'll need to source from All State Gear in San Antonio, TX. I'd post a pic of the page I found with all of the part numbers, but I downloaded it in .pdf format. For whatever reason, flickr doesn't like that format. If anyone is interested, I can post up the part numbers.
