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Carli got the engine out. It's seized, so it'll get a rebuild.

After a fine hot June day under the Mustang, I am now the proud owner of a Sneaky Pete. What is a Sneaky Pete you ask? A one purpose tool that a smart guy who probably also spent the day under his car designed while looking in his shop, seeing a home roto-rooter, and realizing that all the bamboo dowels, brass drifts, and various gauges of wire were NOT going to remove the upper rear main seal, and designed this clever tool I did not previously know about. Ignorance is pain.

More to the story.....the rear main seal is a two part affair, and in this lovely case, the lower rear main seal was RUBBER, and the pin intended to hold the original ROPE seal was still there....(it's supposed to be removed when you install a rubber seal.) AND the upper rear main seal which the past genius decided to leave was the 40 year old ROPE seal, which would NOT come out. OKOK I'm complaining. I do not like backyard mechanics who take shortcuts without integrity, leaving some dope like me to find and deal with their shortcut later. By the way, their "fix" did NOT work. The reason I'm doing the RMS is because it was pi***ng oil all over my garage once I got it running well. Now, we wait for the mail to deliver me from my oily, greasy, dirty hell.

Oh: What be's a sneaky pete tool?: It be dis: (Lisle 27000)

Althea (73 Mustang) had a successful double leafspring-ectomy yesterday, but since it required too many beers to complete the procedure, the ensuing implant was postponed until today. Dual exhaust to arrive today, installation pending.

Kokumin-sha

Maybe need to expand the garage....and the budget.
Or, stop looking for projects.