Today I took my distributor apart, going to order the Mr. Gasket 925D advance springs this weekend.

 

Today I welded the bung for the O2 sensor onto the y-pipe. And, when I tried to install it I looked like

 

The weld job looks pretty nice

 

Thanks, but I think this one looks better - for a couple of reasons:

 

Yeah it does, that's something I'd wind up doing for sure LOL

 

<-- ME HITTING YOU IN THE HEAD. Its okay. The other day at the GTG I started pressing on the axle bearing on one shaft before I put the retaining clip on and had to press the bearing back off.

 

Yeah, I was standing there when you figured out what you'd done. But you don't need to beat me up very much as I've done it to myself a bunch. Glad those bungs come 2 to a package.

 

At first I didn't notice it. But then I did.

 

Yesterday and tonight I finished putting my 9 inch all back together. Its got 2.75 gears for those 40 mile round trips 5 days a week. Im hoping I get a little bit better mpg.

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The old409 comes from my days of running 348 and 409 Chevys. I loved those old "W" motors. I have a trip down the dragstrip in a Z11 409 on my bucket list. I had faster cars but none as fun to take down the strip.

The truck seemed to run fine. There wasn't much change on my vacuum gauge. I really only drove it a couple miles so far. My exhaust isn't near a rich as it was.

I've had a lot of problems with the ethanol gas, softening the hose parts on the gas line and gumming up my filter. I hope the ethanol soon gets all the old scummy film cleaned off everything. My truck runs much better and I get 4 or 5 mpg more on the old gas but it is expensive and not always available.

 

Hey gary. Sorry I have not been on lately. things are more active than an invading bee hive here. How are things? Say, I have a problem. My 84 300 i6 has a fly wheel with a part nomber c6ae-6380-c (164tooth)and is eating starters. Is this the correct flywheel? and can I simply change the ring gear. It is plumb towup!!!! give me a call if you feel so inclined and still have my phone nomber.

 

Just fired off a few emails to salvage yards across the US concerning 1980-1981 4x4 trucks they have in stock. Let's hope at least one of them has the T-Case handle I'm looking for.

 

When are you going to install it? Hope you don't have to do it in a 114 degree parking lot!

Yep, I liked the W motors as well. Had a 58 Impala with that engine. Man, did it have torque!

I hope the rod change works out for you, but am a bit worried that the power A/F ratio will be too lean.

LD - Don't have your number, but I did look up the flywheel. Assuming you have a C6 tranny it should be D5TZ 6375-A. If you have an manual tranny then E0TZ 6375-A. In other words, the # is 6375 for a flywheel. In fact, there seems to be no 6380 as it jumps from 6379, which is the bolt for the flywheel, to 6384 which is the ring gear on the flywheel.

Let me know if you find one near me. I owe you, big time.

 

Remember Gary, that the number lost dane reads stamped or cast into a part is the engineering number, NOT the part number.

LD's engineering number shows the part was designed originally as an engine part for a 1966 full sized Ford, and the 'C' suffix denotes the third revision.

That basic part # (3680) would tend to be somewhere between the flywheel bolt and ring gear.

And a C6 should have a flex plate, not a flywheel.

 

Very true. But the #'s I've found stamped/cast into parts have coincided with what is shown in the master parts catalog - at least on those parts I've checked, which includes two flywheels. Perhaps I should have said "engineering number" but I wasn't sure he would know what that meant.

The discrepancy is the 6380. As you point out, probably by checking the MPC, it isn't a flywheel nor the bolt nor the ring gear. In fact, it doesn't show in the MPC.

As for the term "flywheel", I have always called it a flexplate when used on an automatic, but realized this morning that Ford calls it a flywheel - at least in the MPC. It shows #6375 and then "Flywheel Assy" and includes those for both manual transmissions as well as automatics. I'll look later, after I finish my coffee, and see what the factory shop manual calls it. I wonder if we've brought external terminology into Fordom.