Slowly getting stuff worked out. I've been too busy with school lately. On the plus side my capstone team finally met our goal of drilling through rock with a human powered well drill to be used in Africa. It's harder than it sounds. Now that that's over with the v6 will be out on Monday for sure. Today I picked up a used intercooler from a mitsubishi evo 8 for $40 and will be picking up the full piping kit for $73.

 

Nice score on the intercooler, that's the one I'm using. I does a fine job!

 

Thanks FTE. I remembered that someone on the forum had that intercooler so I felt confident buying it, plus I've been looking for a while and that price was hard to beat!

 

I set aside all of today to remove the v6. All I had left to do was remove the exhaust bolts, transmission bolts, and motor mounts. Exhaust was pretty rusty so I used my longest ratchet. Good: broke the bolt off. Bad: broke the ratchet and possibly my elbow Of course it wasn't until after this happened that I found my friend's pneumatic impact wrench. I'll hopefully get back to it in a couple hours after the swelling goes down. It may be slow, but it's still progress.

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Impact wrench didn't work, getting a cut off tool tomorrow.

 

Finally a little progress this week. It took me a couple days in between class and work but today I finally got the v6 out. Just in time for a guy from Vegas to haul it away tomorrow morning. I've spent the last few days trying to figure out how to make the adapter plate. When I finally got the engine out I was happily surprised to find a thin spacer between the block and the transmission that has the complete outline of the bellhousing with the bolt holes That should come in handy. I'll hopefully be spending most of next week in the machine shop milling down the flywheel and housing. I'm just excited that the project is finally getting off the ground.
Attachments are of the v6 and the new home of the Kubota.

 

Ran into a problem today. My original plan was to mill down the Kubota flywheel then drill and tap it to accept the ford clutch. Only problem is that the ford clutch is bigger than the Kubota flywheel.

(Ford flywheel)


(Ford clutch)


(Kubota flywheel)

So a couple questions to those with experience. The bolt pattern on the ford flywheel to the crank has a 3" diameter. Would it be possible (enough space) to drill and tap the ford flywheel pattern on the Kubota crank or must I make a crank adapter? If I use the stock ford starter will I still need to replace the starter wiring with 2/0 wire? Thanks guys!

 

OOPs. I don't think I would drill the Kubota crank. What is the difference in weights from the Kub crank to the ford crank? I would think about drilling the Kub pattern into the ford flywheel. If that is possible it would solve more than one of your problems in one shot.

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I meant weight difference from the Kub flywheel to the Ford flywheel.
If you use the big Ford flywheel, you should get some pretty good starting torque with the Ford starter I would think. plus you already have the clutch mounted.

 

Drilling the flywheel with the Kubota pattern could work. You will have to figure out the pilot bearing, probably have to have a custom one turned to fit the Kubota crank. And need something to pilot/center the ford flywheel.

also you may have to worry how your stock flywheel is balanced. I know the 5.0 fords have a offset balance in the flywheel and harmonic balancer.

thanks
ken

 

The 302's have two different weights even depending on year. 50 oz imbalance and 28 oz imbalance.

I was wondering about a Mustang's 3.8 clutch, I don't remember them being as big as the V8's for some reason. The spline count might be the same - here is what RockAuto shows for the V6 clutch:

Standard; Outer Diam : 11; Inner Diam : 1 1/16; TEETH : 10T

huh. That's for a '99 with a 3.8, the 90 with 5.0 shows this:

10 1/2; Inner Diam : 1 1/16; TEETH : 10T

One more try - the 200 six cylinder with a manual:

SACHS Part # K001601
Standard; Outer Diam : 9; Inner Diam : 1 1/16; TEETH : 10T

 

The gasser is the Ford 4.2 v6. From what I've read it shouldn't be a problem. Google says that the 4.2 was neutrally balanced, and we all know that google is always right