We seen your outside,inside now lets see your "Under the hood" pic's

 

very clean I like it ! Hopefully after i get mine all running and get her painted i can start the cleaning up process! But that looks really nice.

 

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Does anybody have any tips on how to clean that thing up?, i've pressure washed and etc, i might use a few gallons of simple green

 

Super dirty, only 10k on new engine. Lifes hard for a work truck.




No Emissions stuff, MSD, K&N, LT's

 

How do you like the MSD and flowmaster 40's?

 

Here is mine. The picture isn't the best though. There is a MSD coil cap and rotor as well as Ford Racing wires hiding in there.

 

I try to shy away from pressure washing in the engine bay. There's so much electronic stuff, it's easy to mess something up.

What I've done in the past is use a bucket with some dish detergent, and a couple of the el cheapo paint brushes in different sizes, along with a parts washing brush, to get things clean. That was on the car, in the truck you could probably use a larger brush to speed up the process. I make up a spray bottle of dish detergent/water mix to pre soak the nasty areas, then brush everything down and scrub where it needs it. Then I rinse with a garden hose without a sprayer attached so it's low pressure.

You want to be careful with your choice of cleaners, Simple Green and some other degreasers will damage aluminum surfaces, and make them spotty or dull them out. Learned that the hard way!

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Forgot to mention, after this is all done and dry, I usually spray some sort of tire protectant (good stuff, not Armor All) all over the underhood area. Let it sit for a couple days, then wipe everything down and she'll look good as new!

 

am i the only one on here who has a carb swap?

 

Hey I noticed something in the top picture, you aren't running around with a couple of those ports unhooked and uncapped on the vacuum tree are you?

 

Here is what is under the hood of my old truck looks like right now, it will soon be a diesel though and this engine will be coming out. This engine has less than 500 miles on it, Its not really a truck type setup, it would be much better suited in a mustang. Maybe I need to find an old mustang to stick it in. I wish it wasn't so dirty, but all I have done with the truck since i set it up this way is play around on the farm with it a few times and a couple trips on the interstate tuning it, but mainly just playing around in the fields on the farm, and that makes for a really dirty truck.



By the way , the air cleaner is off because I stuck it on my pulling tractor for a bit, while I was driving it out of the garage under those Darn apple trees. The hood was off the tractor and I would have hated for the turbo to suck in an apple.

 

Carb'd, yes. . .but stock, not a swap




Not the best picture, but one I have on hand. . .

And here it is without the front end:



Cleaned and/or painted FTW!!

 

hey man whats up with the color changed block. and valve covers?.

 

. . .I don't like blue

Especially Ford blue


I like green and purple. Especially Chrome purple and Grabber green

It's also different. . .and I wasn't about to put Chromed anything under there

I'm going to paint parts of my axles Grabber Green as well, lol.

 

oh I thought you changed heads and "stole" some valve covers from another build. but I have to agree on the ford blue. wish they had a red . instead it's grey and two blues/ black. thats why I whent black on the car. blue would clash to much with the red

ah I know not the truck but.. it's a 5.0 . lol

 

I was taking pics while I was mocking everything up. Its all been sealed up since then.