Took the opportunity to de-grease and paint various items today, in readiness for re-assembly.
The gearbox & timing chain cover previously de-greased were painted in Finnigans No1 anti-rust primer.

Then the water pump

The gearbox later on received a coat of orange Smoothrite. (red/yellow mix)

Timing chain cover & water pump were coated in Gold Hammerite

The inlet manifold & fan received coatings of Gold Hammerite too.

Other items received liberal coats of Black Smoothrite.
The starter motor, gearbox sh1t plate, lower plate, timing mark pointer, lower pulley wheel etc

Cleaning the distributor

This weeks evening jobs list is to rub down & respray the rocker (valve) covers & air filter casing.

  Picture taken in 1960. Funnily enough it still looks like this!

1959 Mercury Monterey 312 Y Block.   NORFOLK, ENGLAND, UK.

Today . . . .

Sanded & wet flatted the rocker (valve) covers & air filter casing.
They will receive a liberal coat of 2 pack primer on Wednesday afternoon.
Then its gloss black for the rocker covers & silver for the air filter casing.




  Picture taken in 1960. Funnily enough it still looks like this!

1959 Mercury Monterey 312 Y Block.   NORFOLK, ENGLAND, UK.

Welcome to the site Mate.

I have one question? I have worked over in England several times the last few years in Westbury , Wiltshire, Arbethaw, Wales, Cauldon, West Thurrock and Ashborne. All the streets in these areas are very small and sometimes they are only one lane and if another car is coming, one of you has to stop and let the other bye. How will you fare on these roads with this huge beautiful boat???

2nd, are you required to convert to right hand drive like Austrailia in order to register the car???

Your doing a great job!!!

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

In Norfolk, where I live a lot of the roads are narrow. Sure you have to stop sometimes, but often people stop and let me pass by. They like to stare, as a car as huge as mine (18ft 2" x 6ft 5") and painted like a dolly mixture is not a common sight. Though I do give way to others as I dont want to risk damage to my car.

As for the LHD to RHD question. I didn't realise Australia made you convert the car.

How the feck do you do that? In England you can keep it LHD. Which is good, as I like LHD. I can pull up to the kerb & just get out and nip into a shop or something. If I was that way inclined it would make kerb crawling for hookers easy !! Ha ha ha !!

  Picture taken in 1960. Funnily enough it still looks like this!

1959 Mercury Monterey 312 Y Block.   NORFOLK, ENGLAND, UK.

Noticed your engine appears to have a lot of sludge in the valley area. Contributing to this may be that the lower crankcase breather canister has been removed & a block off plate installed. You need to provide proper venting either at the blocked off plate or by modifying to a proper PVC system. .

Paul

billy

i dont know about the rest of australia but in victoria if its 30 or over years it can stay left hand drive no need to convert it you dont even need seat belts if they werent fitted at the factory i dont have any in the ute & its perfectly legal.

moz. geelong victoria australia.

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Ooh this is something I didn't know. Please tell me more. Where would this be situated? Beside fuel pump? There is a blocked off plate there. ???????

Today, I mixed up some High build 2K primer and gave the Rocker (valve) covers & air cleaner casing a good covering.

Left things to dry on some old chairs, except the air cleaner case, which I hung on the shed.





  Picture taken in 1960. Funnily enough it still looks like this!

1959 Mercury Monterey 312 Y Block.   NORFOLK, ENGLAND, UK.

Boy, everything is starting to look pretty good! Lots of grime and effort.

The crankcase breather is located on the block behind the fuel pump fitting. Its blocked with a sort of diamond shaped plate with two bolts. If its blocked I would also recommend setting up a PCV valve to help the engine breathe. There are some article and photos around this forum to help accomplish that. Chuck in NH

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

On my block I have that diamond shape block off plate.

However the picture in the 1959 factory workshop manual shows the block off plate as well.

I have a breather from the valley cover going down over the bellhousing.

BTW. I bought a new air cleaner element today. Used the original as a pattern to get our local Motor Factors to match it up to. They did. It matches a Russian Moskvich perfectly !

  Picture taken in 1960. Funnily enough it still looks like this!

1959 Mercury Monterey 312 Y Block.   NORFOLK, ENGLAND, UK.

That is some nice looking work.  You have more patience than me to be sanding all of that.


Lawrenceville, GA