I had a 1962 Fairlane like that one with the 221 engine in it. Mine was a 4door with 3 on the column. It was a great little car.It was gave to me by my dad and he helped me fix anything that it needed. They only made just around a thousand of those engines. My StepDad could fix any problem with any car until they started with computers. We rebuild several trucks. A 1950 Dodge and Ford and he never let anyone under the hood of his cars and got upset if we didn't ask him first when it came to our cars Those were some good times. He passed away afew years ago. But I had that old 62 until 2014. All I have left now is a 1971 V W Bug.I do all my own work on it. I've had it for 32 years now. I love what you guys do. Mary Hayes from North Carolina
There’s something about a rebuild that nothing else can compare to. After getting it all back together and seeing and hearing that engine come alive- what a rush!!!! Satisfaction, for sure. Love these old cars. Good vid. Thanx!👍🇺🇸❤️
My parents bought a brand new 62 Ford Fairlane 500 4dr, 6 cylinder, medium blue, cloth seats, auto, seat belts, back up lights and dog dish hubcaps, great car, we sold it in Syracuse in 68. Thanks for the memories!!!!
Loved this, I have my Great Aunts 62 Fairlane 500 Tudor 221 auto with 47K original miles, paint and interior. It got a write up in Hemmings Classic Car Magazine May 2017 issue. Absolute joy to drive ! I always enjoy seeing peoples faces when I tell them it's a 221 V8 !
I love your method to awaken these after a long hibernation. So many hacks I see that want to hook up a battery and crank them up without any preparatory work. I love your channel!
Like your tenacity and determination to wake those dormant beasts up. Also, your penchant to clean up all the debris and garbage from workspace before getting busy puts my OCD mind at ease. Cheers.
I know they like to do a separate video on cleaning the cars but I would at least clean the front where they are working to stop all that 29 year old crud getting on their clothes as they lean over to work on the engine.
Superb episode! I really love and respect the way you work on these rigs. I mean, if you're gonna buy the car, go through the trouble of bringing it back the right way - and you endeavor to do this in every rescue. Whether you keep it or flip it, it went through your hands, and you want it leaving your care better than the way you found it. Those heads looked fantastic when done. Just a satisfying episode. Cheers to you both!!!
That is cooler than the other side of the pillow! Congrats - nice find for sure. 221 cui the early Cobras had the 260cui. Don't throw away the filter if it is embossed with Motorcraft on it. If the plug wires are dated original Keep them as well.
I love that you aren’t scared to do the carb or even heads. Lots of other channels get it half running and call it a day, but you guys seem to get it actually fixed
Back in the 60s I owned and drove a 63 4-door Fairlane with a very small V8 engine and 2-speed auto trans. Clearly a nerd car. But that AM only radio was a fantastic radio!
Can you imagine doing a barn find on an electric car? My dad had a light blue 62 Fairlane, nice, practical car, identical to this body. I enjoy watching you casually yanking off the heads, rebuilding the carb, etc., doing a neat job.
You pulled the intake and I could smell the old Pennzoil or Quaker State oil...high in sulfide & parrafin waxes, that was a signature issue right there!
You are aware what happens to hydraulic lifters when sitting for a long time will do and what will happen to compression? Next time pull the distributor and prime the oil pump which will lubricate the entire engine before starting a dry motor causing wear or even breaking things internally. Doing that the engine will possibly start right up as normal
You guys always do a nice job on the cars and filming. I appreciate all the exotic camera angles and every task is just the right length before getting stale. You'll have a million subscribers in no time.
I'm looking forward to seeing the next one on this old Fairlane. My grandpa had a 1967 galaxy he bought new. My brother ended up with that for his first car.
looking at it from underneath the flywheel looked wobbly when spinning, the teeth had play and the convertor looked like it might have been the trans casing, I would take them off test the flywheel for true and run the engine without them both to see
Another fantastic episode! Great to see you guys working together, and always like the humor from your dad, especially when you got jolted. That laugh from him really got me laughing. I can not get enough of your channel. Thanks for what you do, and Merry Christmas to you and your families!
While you really shouldn't lap in valves with a drill it is much easier to chuck up a piece of hose that fits the valve stem and then just push that onto each valve when doing what you did.
You and your dad are kinda guys I wish I grew up with I'd love to rescue cars and put back on the road. Keep up the good work your channel is one of my absolute favs
I would've changed the valves to hardened valves since you've got it apart, just so you can run unleaded gas without worries. My dad and I used to the same exact thing as what you're doing with that car. God bless you all.
New subscriber. Will be fun to watch as my first of now near 100 car builds was a '62 Fairlane (too many doors version) with the 260 engine. My first city to bigger city road trip was in that car as well. I swore I saw the starter rock when I watched, which would make a racket like that, but will look again and look forward to what is revealed. See a lot of Ford's in your intro. Right up my alley.
A friend of mine has a 62 4 foot in a milk bath in West Virginia, I looked at it 10 years ago, it’s all there and the doors close like it’s new. The unfortunate part is his aunt won’t let it go because it was her dads, car has been sitting for 30+ years so it smells bad inside but I will never understand people that would rather have mice and rats destroy something than pass it on 🤷🏻♂️
some people would rather the mice and rats eat it but be able to see it everyday to keep the memories alive..i don't understand it either but that's the way the human brain works..
Fantastic video of a very in-depth engine build pretty much! 😁😁 You guys put in so much hard work to try and get this beautiful car started..the same year I was born!! You are so close in getting there!! You guys are awesome!! Father and son 😁😁👍👍
I'm new here and I enjoyed this. Please carry on with this engine, I can't wait to see the crank even though the flex plate looked like it was hitting the starter motor. ✌️👍🇬🇧
An oil pressure check with a gauge would tell you if you have bottem end problems. The non syncronized knocking sound makes me think its probably not a rod and definitely not the mains... Id look at the flex plate as previously stated in the comments and maybe change the starter.. Also...with that much noise if it was the rod bearings that oil would have looked like a glitter bomb!...Change the starter first if it contines see if you can get your bore scope between the flex plate and torque converter and look for cracks.. if not just loosen it and scoot it back some... Good luck
That is the same thought I had and I think it maybe the starter to flywheel as the ring gear/flywheel looked badly warped and was smacking the starter gear
@@JuryRigged77 I just went and re-watched it where the camera on the starter at a slower speed and it is hard to tell but I think it is just making contact with the starter to make the sound but can't see the tip of the starter to see if there is any damage in the starter teeth and also realised 2 things 1 when the engine was turned over by hand if it was a hanging rod it would have been felt and heard and it wasn't and 2 a comment was made "looks like the trans was rebuilt" could it be the trans is dry/the torque converter has failed/not installed properly
An old school flat plate = a polished granite countertop. If you can find a decently sized broken piece, grab it. Countertop installers are a good source, they'll often give you a busted piece for free. Sometimes, they've got samples in a showroom that they eventually throw out... stop off and ask for freebies. You might score! Best wishes! - Max Giganteum
This video brought back the memory of my youth. My parents bought a brand new 1962 Fairlane 500 with the in-line 6. It was black with a red/white interior. We loved it! I'll never forget it. There's a special place in my heart for that car. Thanks, guys!
Another great video. These were the cars I grew up with! I'm older than your dad. The 221 was a very high winding engine, larger bore short stroke. It was an easy 6k, 6500 rpm engine (according to the Western Auto tach). One of my teenage buddies had the same car (gray with beige interior) with 3 on the column. 60mph in first gear all day long...lol. It a was shocker for some of the Chevy II drivers, they couldn't believe they were looking at our tail lights!
The 221 didn’t seem to get a lot of attention, at least from what I recall from old magazines of the period I was reading in the 80s. I don’t recall ever seeing anything about it being modified. Then again, when Carroll Shelby acquired a couple of the “new” thin-wall Ford V 8s and had them shipped to AC cars in England to test in prototypes that became the Cobra, were they 221s or 260s? Everything I’ve read seems to gloss over and, of course the chassis and bodies were then shipped to LA where 260s were installed and the legend was thus “born.” If exterior dimensions are the same, shouldn’t be any problems with 260/289 manifolds and other parts fitting a 221. Then again, I don’t know much about them because by the time I was getting into cars in the mid-late 70s, they weren’t even mentioned.
May be the first time I ever saw a 221 opened up. That was close to the displacement of the flat head as well wasn't it? Once you get the kinks out HEI would be a nice upgrade along with an alternator. Interested in seeing what oil you use. Friend of mine has a 1970 Comet for a daily driver - all original and in his family since new. Some of the FoMoCo products from that era have aged gracefully.
This is a really great episode, and I almost feel like that car was just sitting there, waiting for you. Other than the engine being stubborn towards the end, it was really fun seeing how many things went so smoothly, and how many things on it worked pretty much right away. I am jealous that you keep finding all of these oldschool Detroit gems that just need some sweat equity and a little TLC, and they are running and driving. The bird's eye view of the carburetor rebuild portion was something I haven't seen on your channel so far, and I think that was a cool new point of view. Say what you want, but I think in a lot of places, if you pulled up in a tastefully modified and restored 1960's car, you would get more attention and more street cred than if you did with some modern exotic supercar. Hope to see this car run and drive soon!
Thats cool, I had a 221 in a Mercury Meteor I had forever ago, thats the only only other one I have ever seen, and it doesnt have a PCV system on it, mine was sooooo oily LOL
I had one of these as my first car. It had a very tired 170 six cylinder. I swapped in a 260 V8 which was much better but not much of a hot rod but my brother swapped in a 4 speed using the column shifter for the forward gears and an 8 ball pulled up on the floor for reverse.
I have a 62 Mercury Meteor with a 221. I've gotten a number of parts for my Meteor by buying Fairlane parts. Some people don't know they are cousins in several ways.
A very good find man . But why didn't you give it a bath and blowed everything out before you put in your garage. Now all the critters will be in your shop . Like rats,snakes, and whatever else was in it . I'm just saying. I love the car man. Yours is in better shape than the one I have when I found it. Hope all goes well
The engine would have had a black colored block with yellow valve covers, our 1963 Fairlane has the 260 motor with a black block with copper colored valve covers. I see someone at one time or another put blue paint on the engine. It's cool to see trim on a Fairlane 500, ours is not a 500. Look forward to seeing it cleaned up.
I have owned a bunch of small block Fords over the years (from a 64 Falcon sprint 260 4 spd car in 1965 to a 95 Mustang 5 L a/t car ) and was a Ford dealership mechanic in the mid 70s. Anyway it sounds to me that the flex-plate for the tranny is hitting something, you might want to check that out before you go pulling the bottom end. I am a die hard Ford guy and really enjoyed the 61 Galaxy series you did. Have fun with the Fairlane, my bother had a 63 back in the day. 😎
I love all the will it start videos man I've got 3 classics myself a 51 Buick special and a 53 Buick super and a 64 mercury Monterey convertible keep them coming guys !!!!
Love the 62-4 Fairlanes! The true start of the muscle era, the beginning of the 289 Hi-Po K Codes, the end of the space-race wing'd era, and the test bed of what the Mustang might be all while remaining under the radar of most big dollar collectors.. unfortunately for folks in the USA, Australians and Germans have been importing them as fast as they can find them marking some serious price jumps as of late.
