Ford Thunderbird 1958 User Manual

1-14
GROUP
1-POWER
PLANT
FIG.
14
Engine Installation
FIG.
15
Engine
Lifting
Brackets
and
Sling
1727-A
ENGINE REMOVAL
AND
INSTALLATION
The procedures
given are for the
engine
only
without
the transmission
attached.
If
the engine
and
transmis
sion are removed as
an
assembly,
in
stall
standard eye bolts with
Vi-IA
threads in
the bosses at the
top
rear
of the exhaust manifolds. Then at
tach
the engine
lifting
bracket and
sling
to
the
eye bolts.
The engine
in
stallation
is
shown in
Fig.
14.
REMOVAL
1. Drain the
cooling
system and
the
crankcase.
Disconnect
the
bat
tery
ground cable at the
engine. Re
move the
hood,
radiator,
and the air
cleaner.
2.
Remove the
oil level
dip
stick
and
the
coil.
Disconnect
the
oil pres
sure
sending
unit
wire
at
the
sending
unit,
the
flexible
fuel
line
at
the
fuel
tank
line,
the
flexible
windshield
wiper line
at the
vacuum
pump
and
position
it out
of
the
way.
Remove
the wire
loom from the clips on the
left
valve
rocker arm cover
and
posi
tion
the
wires
out
of the
way.
On
cars
with a
windshield
washer,
disconnect
the three
lines at the
washer
pump
and
position them out
of the
way.
On
conventional drive
or over
drive
units,
disconnect
the
acceler
ator.
Remove the
accelerator retract
ing
spring.
On
cars with
Cruise-O-Matic dis
connect
the
accelerator rod and the
transmission
rod at the accelerator
cross shaft
bracket
and
secure
them
to
the
dash
panel.
On
cars with power
steering,
dis
connect the
power
steering
pump
bracket from the
water
pump,
then
wire the power
steering
pump
to the
hood
left hinge in
a
position that will
prevent the
oil
from
draining
out.
On
cars with power
brakes,
dis
connect
the
power
brake line at
the
intake manifold and at
the flexible
line,
then release the
line from the
brackets on the left
valve rocker
arm
cover and
remove the line.
On
cars
with
an
air
conditioner,
disconnect
the
magnetic clutch wire.
Isolate the
compressor
as
outlined in
the
"1958 Air Conditioner
Shop
Manual."
3. Disconnect the heater hose at
the
water
pump
and
at the intake
manifold,
the
generator wires at the
generator,
and the engine tempera
ture
sending
unit wire at
the
sending
unit.
Remove the engine ground
strap
and the
starter
cable
retaining
bracket
from the rear of the right cylinder
head.
4.
Raise
the
front of the
car.
Re
move
the starter
and
dust seal (and
the
Cruise-O-Matic
fluid
filler tube
bracket). Remove the
crankcase ven
tilation
tube. Disconnect the
muffler
inlet
pipes from the
exhaust mani
folds,
the engine
right and left
sup
port insulators at
the
engine.
On cars with
Cruise-O-Matic,
re
move the
converter
housing
lower
access
cover and the cover
assembly.
Remove the flywheel
to converter
nuts.
Secure the
converter
assembly
in
the
housing.
Remove the
converter
housing
to engine
lower
bolts,
and
remove
the
oil
cooler
lines
retaining
clamp
from the
engine block.
On conventional
drive
or
overdrive
units,
remove the
flywheel
housing
inspection cover and
the clutch pedal
retracting
spring.
Disconnect
the
clutch release bracket at
the equal
izer rod and
remove the bracket
from
the
engine.
Remove the
flywheel
housing
to
engine upper bolts.
5. Lower the
car,
then support
the
transmission. Remove the converter
or
flywheel
housing
upper
retaining
bolts. Install the engine left
lifting
bracket on the front of
the left cyl
inder
head where the coil
mounts,
and
install
the
engine
right
lifting
bracket at the rear of the right
cyl
inder
head,
then attach
the
engine
lifting sling
(Fig.
15). Raise
the en
gine
slightly
and
carefully
pull it
from the
transmission. Lift
the en
gine
out of the
engine
compartment

Ford Thunderbird 1958 Specifications

General

Brand	Ford
Model	Thunderbird 1958
Category	Automobile
Language	English