This engine swap is turing into a complete nightmare.
Got the brand new flywheel on, the engine in, and everything hooked up. Started it up, and the flywheel is scraping on the starter still . . . in the same place as the old flywheel (the teeth right were that balancing weight is welded on). So we used this dial tool thingy (can't remember exactly what it's called) to measure the amount of warpage. With the torque converter disconnected (so that would be measuring the crank) , it was measuring a total of about 60/1000". With the torque converter connected (measuring the torque converter), the needle was going all the way around the dial right in that spot where it was scraping.
So we're going to pull the engine back out (again
) and try swapping out the torque converter from Old Sadie and see if that works. Also, while the engine is out, dad will do some more measuring on the end of the crank to see if it is really warped that bad (60/1000").
And I think I have figured out why I'm having so many problems with this swap. When I got New Sadie, it was with the plan of putting Old Sadie's engine & tranny into it to give Old Sadie the body transplant that she needed. That ended up not happening (although I will still rebuild that tranny & use it). So I think Old Sadie is really pissed at me for giving this new car her name but not her engine and she has put a curse on this engine swap.
So I've decided that New Sadie needs a new name because she really isn't going to be a new Sadie when all is said & done (if it ever does get done
). So we were going through names and Nellie (which also happened to be my great grandmother's name) seems to fit. So Sadie is Sadie and the new Mustang is Nellie.
Sadie does have a lot of sentimental value, but the more I work on Nellie, the more I realise just how terminal Sadie's cancer really is (It's kind of nice to be working under a car and have bits of grease & dirt fall on your face rather than chunks of the frame rails & floor pans). So if I ever get Nellie running again, the next project will be to strip anything that might be useful off of Sadie, I'll be sending her off to Mustang heaven.
-Chelle