Cortina Transmission in - Finally!

[AngliaGT]

Well I put our Son's college education to work today.
He's visiting us from Tennessee.
He helped me to get the transmission in.Just have to finish it up now (it's been off of the road for over 2 years).
The weather's been cold & raining here for the last
1-2 weeks,so apathy won out.
-Does anyone know what size bolt holds the bottom of the starter on? 1967 Ford Cortina 1500 MKII GT?



- Doug

 

[DrEntropy]

It's different than the top one?!?! Wish I could help, Doug, but clueless. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif

 

[AngliaGT]

Doc,

Just being lazy.I bolted down the top one,
& now I can't find the bottom one.
Aren't you supposed to have parts leftover
when you do the job right?

- Doug

 

[DrEntropy]

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Ya sure it ain't somewhere inna bell-housing? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

 

[AngliaGT]

No,I checked that before I put it in.
Of course,there's the speedometer cable that I should
have attached BEFORE we put the trans in.

- Doug

 

[DrEntropy]

Now a job for LOTUS FINGERS!

...or a ten-year-old with high mechanical aptitude.

 

[AngliaGT]

Naw,I'll just pull off the rear support,& install it.

-Doug

 

[equiprx]

I think I heard the law is you have to redo the job if you have more than three parts left over.

 

[AngliaGT]

No,you then take it to a competent mechanic,who is
very impressed with your work.He usually calls his buddys
over & says things like - "Wow - I've never seen this before".

- Doug

 

[vagt6]

Hey Doug, please post a few pictures of your Cortina. I'd love to see it, I think they're very nice cars.

BTW, is your gearbox a 4 speed or 5 speed??? Did any Cortinas have OD from the factory?

Interesting car, won a lot of races in their day.

 

[AngliaGT]

Cortinas all had 4 speeds (manual cars),never had OD,
but I know of someone who knows how to adapt the OD from
Volvos to them.
I still don't know how to post pictures,so I just might
email them to you.

- Doug

 

[LarryK]

I had 2 68 Cortina MK 1600s. 1 had an green auto and the other a red 4-speed. I put the 4 in the one that had auto. I also gutted the red one and used the good parts on the green one. After I was done I really had a decent Cortina. My neighbor came over ( a Nissan Master Mechanic) and just could not figure out how I could do such a thing. He could not comprehend taking a car apart and putting it back together, he said he could never do it. The same Master Mech. had to take the heads from his Ford Truck in to a shop to have them ground and reinstalled.