Chucky’s 1966 Mustang rebuild

Nice clean bilge. Ok the referee says I owe ken a burger

Is it this guy when he first started boating before monogrammed shirts or even clothes ?

While prepping the log, I noticed a significant brass ridge along the bottom. It was “parting line” material from when the log was cast. Ofcourse the worker smoothed the top of the log, but not the bottom. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if this caused a leak. I realize you want the packing to drip slightly, but not the log / hose connection. A smooth log is a happy log.

Made this to consolidate the previous 3! different switch bezels into 1 and to cover 2 fugly holes in the dash. It also happens to follow the design of the main gauge panel.

Chucky wrote: Yes...it’s true. Not all of my parts are USCG approved. I’m ok with it.

Now why'd you go and say that Chucky?

Now somebody's bound to ask...........What's not marine? any of that stuff that makes for kinda fiery explosions like starter, carburetor, fuel lines, alternator, distributor.

Or something lame like your wiring harness doesn't have tinned wires (and the USCG doesn't care about that anyways)

You can just say "it was marine in 1966"   

If that is your biggest mistake you are doing really well in my book.

Chucky wrote: I truly messed up on the purchase of my engine to transmission hardware. Let’s just say 1/2” is a wee bit too big (son of a bitch!). Oh well, at least I like going to the hardware store.

A friend-of-a-friend built a large home shop. During the build he attended an auction at a closing hardware store. He purchased the entire hardware aisle for $600 (including all the bins), and has the whole thing set up along one side of his space. I'm incredibly jealous.

67 ski nat wrote: ACE hardware in CA is best

Only if you only need a couple fasteners and want to pay 10 times what the cost should be.

67 ski nat wrote: Sure. The selection and variety is better Where do you go on Saturday morning for nuts There’s no orange ‘boatdepot’ In CA

McMaster for full boxes. A Saturday order will be at my door before 10 am Monday and that's their standard delivery.

Home Depot! They have the same Hillman junk as Ace.

Son of a Bitch! I got to practice taking the trans out today. I guess it’s better I noticed it now. Trying to move forward sometimes involves going backwards.

The flywheel ring gear nearly fit inside the bellhousing, except where it didn’t, right where the starter goes in. I noticed it while installing the two bottom dust shield bolts. These parts have never been joined together until now. I removed the transmission and ground a bit of clearance. Yes, there was slight resistance when first bolting the trans to the engine. I thought it was the fact that the PO had allowed paint to enter the holes in which the locating / alignment pins go into. It’s all good now and I should make forward progress tomorrow. I did lag bolt the mounts to the stringers and attach the prop shaft, with safety wire on the lock bolts. I also secured the steering cable with 5/8” cushion clamps, allowing it to still “move” when it needs to. The goal was to run the shift and carb cables / mount the Morse control today...but, I spent several hours correcting the clearance issue.

The first picture is what it looked like inside the bellhousing after I removed the trans from the engine / boat.

The second picture is after grinding and re-installation.

TRBenj wrote: What’s the tooth count on the flywheel?

KENO wrote: You tell the guy at the parts store that you need a flywheel and/or ring gear to fit a 1967 Mustang with a 289 and a 4 speed transmission. The ring gear is 157 teeth. Don't tell them you need a flywheel for an automotive those all had 164 teeth and were a bigger diameter . Here's a picture with the Ford part number cast into the flywheel There have been a few updated part numbers over the years but they're 157 teeth in the marine application.

The link below is to an appropriate page in John B's thread. Maybe go back a page and forward a page in the thread too   

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Looks like I might need to swap flywheels.

So for clarity...It appears Ford decided to 1.) have different balance weights 2.) have different sizes / tooth counts AND 3.) have different bellhousing starter bolt locations.

A little birdie tells me that Chucky has this all figured out and understood now.    

Needs 157 teeth and 50 0z. imbalance for his later one piece rear main seal engine. not the 164 that's crammed in there. The 157 that came with the boat project is the older 28 oz imbalance flywheel so he's getting a new one.

He'l be able to write a book about the trials and tribulations of replacing a RR older 302 with a 2 piece rear main seal with a newer 1 piece rear main seal 302 set up for RR