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
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