With the engine out, i started to degrease all the engine bay, inner wings etc, and get it ready, rubbed down and prepped for painting.
Half of the engine bay degreased and cleaned.



The front panel was going to be sprayed too, so that was given a clean, and amazingly no rot again !! Even where the headlights sit came up like new with a degrease solution and polish

With the engine and gearbox out, the gearbox had all the oil seals replaced, was rubber down to the ally and painted again like new.


New parts were purchased for every area of the car with just some of them below. Every single nut and bolt where possible was replaced with stainless steel 8.8 grade or Standard Ford Items.


Full Poly Bush Kit

Luckily i have a very helpful and interested neighbour who knows EVERYTHING there is to know about old fords from 1970-odd onwards, and instead of just cleaning the engine and parts....he persuaded me it would be more beneficial to strip the engine and decoke it / replace worn parts. Cheers Steve New tappets were fitted, head cleaned and decoked, and the engine block cleaned, painted, and all the other parts such as manifold and inlet cleaned back like new, polished up, and the exhaust manifold sand blasted (thanks to my other mate who has access to a sand blaster)
The engine had new water pump, tappets, valves lapped in, timing belt, etc etc etc.
Before

After (old sump still on until we get it back into car to prevent it getting scraped)