Moseley Matheson > 1988 Ford Bronco > open folder The Busted Bronco

The Engine bay as we remove some stuff.
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Shane trying to figure out the Plenum problem. By the way we let air outta the tires, Shane isn't r...
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The plenum bolt that had to be drilled out. The star pattern was stripped so we drilled it out.
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127,000+ miles of grime on that intake.
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One broken short block, ready to come out. It was about this time we realized the back two cylinder...
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Shane, getting the engine ready to come out.
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The busted block outta the engine. Like my new oil filter, just put it in.
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A shot of an empty engine bay, notice the scattered bolts below the windshield. This would prove to...
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another shot of the block.
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Here is the problem, broken crank shaft.
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Here is a close up of the same picture.
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another shot. (There are many.)
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Another close-up.
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Here is a shot with a pry bar pointing to the crack. (incase you didn't see it in the first 4 shots...
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And one more for good measure.
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My new Grooms short block. Bored .40 over with the new comp cam already in.
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Me painting the engine bay. One of the few things I was allowed to do on my own.
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Cleaned the oil pan and valve covers.
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Nice new GT-40 heads compared to the old crusty stock heads.
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Comparison of the intake and exhaust valves between the two.
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Stock exhaust manifold compared to the new headers. Notice the port size difference.
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Picture showing the intake runners of the new GT-40 heads.
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Here is the old head's intake runners, for comparison to the new GT-40 head's runners.
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Painted the block, and everything else.
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Engine with timing chain cover.
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Engine with Headers on.
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The new engine wanting to go to it's new home.
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Here is the engine lowered in.
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That's me doing something pretty important, I just can't remember what.
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Yup doing something reaaaally important.
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That's me working on getting the intake mounted. I finally got an important task.
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Got the accessories hooked up and the lower intake mounted, which proved to be a difficult problem t...
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Next we have the upper intake plenum, which is heavy, and a PITA to get set on it's gasket.
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Plenum is mounted, it is starting to look like a real engine again.
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That's Shane priming the oil pump.
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More priming.
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Shane working on tuning the beast. Notice the dirty INSIDE of my hood, I was playing in some puddle...
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