Originally Posted by
alanfordtw-15
thanks for the advice. just home from taking the engine out, fairly easy and straightforward. will tidy up car and get it rolling to send it away to his home tomorrow and then will start looking into the engine.
also found the possible cause as to why the oil pressure light did not work. connected to the oil pressure switch under the inlet manifold was a soild brown wire with an 8mm hole crimp connection. but floating in mid air connected to nothing very near this was a brown/green wire with the same crimp connection on it which im sure is the ford oil pressure wire colours.
can anyone confirm or correct me about this?
thanks
turn the ignition on and touch one then the other to the block to see when the engine light comes on to know for sure
you may still be able to use the block with a rebore, but i'm not sure if you could use anything else int eh engine, and even then the block may still be scrap if it's got too ho and distorted
he may be lucky and get away with a new set of bearings, but 15 minutes with no oil and the engine then siezes sounds mightly expensive to put right