I just want to say that this will probably be a slow teardown and build as I work on the weekends as well and have maybe an hour a day to devote to tearing this down, plus I have to wait to gather funds for the build since this happened at an inopportune time (not that there is ever a great time for your engine to decide to devour its self). This is my car Toothless, it is a 2012 Boss 302 Laguna Seca. People keep asking me why the hell would you call it Toothless, it sounds so stupid! Well, I am a dork and Toothless is the dragon from How to Train Your Dragon. He is a Nightfury which is the fastest most agile dragon there is which is somewhat like the Laguna Seca in the Mustang lineup. Plus they are both black and red and I have been told a couple of times that I look like a much bigger version of Hiccup.
Well, it seemed as if I had started to develop a tick with my engine. I parked it for a bit to try and figure out what was wrong with it and over the course of a couple of weeks I forgot about it. I couldn’t find the keys to my V6 and started the Boss up and I was quickly reminded of the loud noise emanating from my engine. Anyway, it sounded something like this in case anyone is interested in what prompted this whole process.
http://vid579.photobucket.com/albums/ss233/fordfan7689/20140914_143224_zpsbc3afb89.mp4
Well after that, I parked the car until that weekend and drained the oil. When I did I didn’t notice any metal flakes through the oil so I thought that I was in the clear there. Well, I was wrong. When I was draining the oil from the drain pan I noticed a couple of sparkles coming from the oil and that’s when I noticed everything.
The next step was to take the engine out of the car. It was pretty straight forward, the only real hiccups that I ran into was that I rounded off one of the bolts from the exhaust manifold to the cat so I removed the clamp that connects the cat to the midpipe. The starter motor has a bolt on the very top of it that is a pain to get to from under the car or from the side of it, so what I did was put a couple of extensions together and attacked it from the front of the engine where the A/C condenser was. The biggest problem was actually getting the engine free from the transmission. When it came time to pull the engine it just wouldn’t budge, eventually after a lot of up and down with a jack and the engine hoist I got enough daylight to finally get the very tip of a screwdriver in between the bellhousing and the metal plate and use it somewhat as a wedge to finally break it free. I decided to remove the hood to make it a lot easier to actually pull the engine from the car.
I had the engine in this position for a while until I was finally able to get the away from the transmission.
After about 2 hours of up and down and back and forth and getting the screwdrivers around the bellhousing out it came.
The obligatory (not so) empty engine bay shot
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Well, it seemed as if I had started to develop a tick with my engine. I parked it for a bit to try and figure out what was wrong with it and over the course of a couple of weeks I forgot about it. I couldn’t find the keys to my V6 and started the Boss up and I was quickly reminded of the loud noise emanating from my engine. Anyway, it sounded something like this in case anyone is interested in what prompted this whole process.
http://vid579.photobucket.com/albums/ss233/fordfan7689/20140914_143224_zpsbc3afb89.mp4
Well after that, I parked the car until that weekend and drained the oil. When I did I didn’t notice any metal flakes through the oil so I thought that I was in the clear there. Well, I was wrong. When I was draining the oil from the drain pan I noticed a couple of sparkles coming from the oil and that’s when I noticed everything.
The next step was to take the engine out of the car. It was pretty straight forward, the only real hiccups that I ran into was that I rounded off one of the bolts from the exhaust manifold to the cat so I removed the clamp that connects the cat to the midpipe. The starter motor has a bolt on the very top of it that is a pain to get to from under the car or from the side of it, so what I did was put a couple of extensions together and attacked it from the front of the engine where the A/C condenser was. The biggest problem was actually getting the engine free from the transmission. When it came time to pull the engine it just wouldn’t budge, eventually after a lot of up and down with a jack and the engine hoist I got enough daylight to finally get the very tip of a screwdriver in between the bellhousing and the metal plate and use it somewhat as a wedge to finally break it free. I decided to remove the hood to make it a lot easier to actually pull the engine from the car.
I had the engine in this position for a while until I was finally able to get the away from the transmission.
After about 2 hours of up and down and back and forth and getting the screwdrivers around the bellhousing out it came.
The obligatory (not so) empty engine bay shot
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- Oil Pickup Tube – Part# BR3Z-6622-A
- Oil Pump – Part# BR3Z-6600-A
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