Pics of the GF helping me take apart my 5.3.
 

Here is how it looked the day I bought the motor, stuffed into the back of the gf's durango lol. I was told the motor was making some noise, which is why it was pulled. I'm thinking it was a spun bearing prob as one rod cap was missing. Anyways, onto the pics!

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Here are the pics as of yesterday.

Finally getting it onto the stand:
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Here I am removing the ex. manifold bolt. I had one break on me inside of the head :bang:. I'm going to try and get it out, but they are going to the machine shop anyways :D.

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I asked the gf to go ahead and remove the other ex. manifold, and the water pump. She loved working with the ratchet lol. After she finished she wanted to take a pic of what she had taken off so far.

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Now here are the good ones. Were finally inside the motor, and she's never seen anything like all this so it was kinda funny. (The old oil smelled like ass though)

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After that we started taking off the whole rocker arm assembly. After that was out of the way we could start getting ready to take the heads off.

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Here is a pic of her wondering WTF this thing is lol.
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After she removed the timing chain and sprocket I told her to thread the water pump bolts into the cam. She had no idea why. I then told her to pull nice and easy.

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Then she asked, "How long is this thing?"
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Well without to many issues it was finally out.
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That's all the pics I have, bc after that we flipped the motor over and started taking out rods and pistons. She now knows what makes her car go, or at least I told her. Oh well she said she had fun taking out the bolts lol.

I lmao when she tried to take off the balancer bolt . For those who dont know, the balancer bolt is a major PITA. Especially with hand tools, you guys got it lucky with the impacts.

As for parts, I have LS7 lifters, an oil pan, coil packs and brackets, and picking up my stall tomorrow.

Overall good times!

EDIT: Pics of the mustang now.
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Whats the motor for? My gf is the same way want to learn as much about it as she can.

This motor will be powering a fox coupe. Getting the roller this weekend, hopefully.

Cute girl! My wife has no interest in engines. Sometimes I wish she did. Other times...

hmmm i cant imagine what it would be like of both of us wanted to constantly spend money on the cars.

cool my gf doesnt care to work on them or know how they work, she just sees my bank account and all the deductions for car crap, cause shes a teller at wamu she can view it anytime sucks. then i get the, for all the money you spend on the car you can atleast take me out to dinner lol. i always get suckerd

How old is she, she looks 15-17 :secret2:

Thats Cool, my gf is afraid to get dirty and has zero interest in cars :(

That's cool...my wife could give two sh_ts about how cars work.

Good luck with the project man....your gf has some Natalie Portman look to her.

Must...resist...comment...

My gf is afraid to help me because I say not no nice things when I work on my cars...... That and I think most of the time my help gets in the way.... My dad tried to help and I finally told him to get out of the way :eyes:

She holds that long and stiff camshaft well.:secret2::devil:

Does she got a sister?

my ex gf drives a 72 nova 400 small block 650hp with 5k stall. now thats badass lol

Its all good till she drops a cylinder head on her open toe sandles, lol j/k Thats how you do, put her ass to work....

That's pretty cool that you both have an interest in cars.

damn all these lucky guys with girls that want to learn about and work on cars. Ive never had such luck with any of my girls doing that. goodluck on the build man!

Awesome, we jjust built a turbo 6.0 89 hatch foxbody, Finish some tuning saturday on it when our tuner comes up to the shop. my wife loves helping me work on cars! Sometimes its great cause we need to spend more time together! Goodluck on the build