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sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #45 –
Clutch pedal is a press fit. Needed the hammer to knock it on and off.

Clutch pedal is "rebuilt". No longer has any play side to side. I used the black bushings. The grey ones looked more correct, but seemed to bind too much. Part # 74016. Was in the "Help!" Section. "Clutch and brake bushings"

I personally probably would have skipped this step, but my dad had an old van with a clutch, and he ended up tearing through the pedal assembly after the bushings went out. He insisted we needed these, and I was out of propane, so I figured why not, couldn't hurt.





And vinne, your the last person I want to disapoint ;).
I figure I should have the everything bolted down, and ready to drive by dark. Might need to get some more bolts for the exhaust. I broke or stripped every bolt on the y-pipe. Don't think its ever been off before.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #46 –
Clutch pedal and clutch cable are in. I routed the cable under the motor mount. This is the only way I could see no having it sit against the exhaust and still pull straight to the pedal and into the trans properly. Clutch feels reletively light. Gonna work on getting the steering colum back in so I can try to start it and see what happends. If all goes well, I'll be starting exhaust by dinner, and able to set it on the ground tonight.

The air injection pump tube was badly rotted. I was able to get the pipe off cleanly of the exhaust. It just had a single clamp on the bottom, then goes up to a rubber hose on the passenger side. I'm going to try to get the exhaust hung, but I really think I might have to wait until tomorrow for the bolts and small pipe for the injection pump.

I did cut one exhaust hanger off of the cat. Whoever put it in, they did it so it hung off of the transmount so you couldn't remove it. I might just get a cheapie hangar and clamp instead of getting it welded.

I like having one cable instead of the 50 brackets and linkages for the colum shifter.

So basically, I need some new exhaust bolts,a lil peice of pipe for the injection pump, and a shifterboot or gasket of some type. I have some rubber plugs, gonna see if I can just stick one in the colum shifter hole.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #47 –
Come on,come on, come on !!!!!!!!!
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #48 –
Easy no vinnie. I'm sure I want this more then you want to see it ;). Quick dinner break and then gonna get the colum and dash all together and wire the nss to the pedal and reverse lights. Gonna see if it will crank with the key. If it does, then I'll pull the coil wire and make sure it doesn't hang up on the starter during crank.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #49 –
So, if this works, are you going to start getting the car some performance mods, and all prettied up?
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #50 –
That all depends.

I go to montana on the 11th, and I'll be starting a job making over twice what I was when I was laid off. Now for the cruddy bit...

Its gonna be 15 days on and 6 days off. Company pays for hotel, but I gotta get out there. Depending on how the work goes, I could be up there until june or longer, and there already lining up work in washington state. I always swore i'd never be one of those lineman that hops from place to place, but the lack of work here and good pay give me almost no other option.

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna end up with lots of money, but time is going to be an issue when I'm home. There will be quite a few things that I'll need to do when I'm home. I'd like to finally use all my h.o. parts, do some exhaust and maybe get mu other motor ready. I'd also like to do some minor brake upgrades. But I am a stong beleiver in function over form, and I like my cheap cars. Using this car for work might also change how much I can fix it up.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #51 –
Oh, and a quick update...

I hooked the nss to the pedal, but it was a waste of time. The car will start with the pedal up, but not depressed. Oposite of what I wanted. So I just jumpered I next to the tranny plug. I did hook up the reverse lights as well.

I got the car running, tested the clutch, and all looks good. With the clutch in the tire barely moves, and if I hit the brake it stops without lugging the engine at all. I can shift between gears with the engine running and the car up onn the jack stands. I heard a bit of grinding after the idle dropped, so I shut the car off. the dust plate from the aod had a bubble in it next to the starter that was grinding the engine side of the flywheel.

I noticed the starter was a bit crooked, and figured I didn't line it up right, pulled it out and re-seated it. Still grinding. So I shimmed the dustplate, still grinding. I eventally figured out that the starter was just barely too big for the hole in the dust plate, so I trimmed the edge it washiznitting best I could with some tin snips. Hooked the starter back up without shims and nothing. Just getting solinoid clicks. Battery is good and has been on 2 amp charge all day.

Right now I'm hoping the starter is bad. The teeth seemed to enguage and dis-enguage properly. I'd rather I found the junkyard starter as bad before the trip anyways. Guess I'm done for the night, gonna test the starter and see what happends.

I was able to get it to crank the starter over fine with it outside of the bellhousing. Really not sure what else it could be.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #52 –
Get a mini starter...
Change one of the cables on the solenoid, and run a small wire from the solenoid to the starter itself.

The smaller starter weighs less, takes less room, and starts the engine easier too.
Get one from a '93 up 5.0 truck, 92-95 5.0 stang, '94+ 3.8 Tbird/Cougar..and a few others.

I've got one on my Sport, for sure a must have.
'98 Explorer 5.0
'20 Malibu (I know, Chevy, but, 35MPG. Let's go brandon, eh)

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #53 –
It was a mini starter ;).

Older starter doesn't really fit well in the housing.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #54 –
Ok, starter back in. I decided to fix the dustplate rubbing by a hot rodder old time seceret. Rev honing.

Going to the junkyard to look for some exhaust bits and a shifter boot. I have the aod shift bezel if I end up with something other the tbird/cougar peice.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #55 –
You can make a lower shift boot from a stang as well.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #56 –
Yup, if I couldn't find one.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #57 –
eBay,maybe a ford truck or somebody parting out a turbo coupe here on the forum.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #58 –
Through a shift boot off a ford ranger in. It should work. Can't find my floor shift shroud though?

Car is on the ground, gonna go for a test drive after I clean up a bit and put the drivers seat in. Wish me luck.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

sn-95 v-6 t-5 behind a 5.0

Reply #59 –
Good luck!!!
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..