I know how everybody like to play the “what is it game”! As I finally got around to cleaning the bronco pan, to get it ready to be sold, I found a piece of metal at the bottom of the sludge filled pan (see picture). I have no idea what it is but it's 1 and 5/8 inches long by a half inch wide. Looks like some sort of tool part to me?
To me it looks like the pivot off of a windshield wiper or perhaps part of a cylinder hone without the stone. - Matt
I was thinking cylinder hone, but how? You'd have to remove the pan to remove a piston to hone a cylinder....
an inch and 5/8 in length leads me to think more of a piece of a wheel cylinder hone without the stone
Could it possibly be part of the oil pickup screen assembly? Maybe a bridge in the middle of the screen.
That's what it looks like to me also, a wheel cylinder hone stone holder with out the stone. If I was to guess someone had a stuck distributor and when they got it out they tried to clean up the hole with a wheel cylinder hone.
That is what I was thinking too.. How else could it get down there? But where did the stone go? Its not like it could have disintegrated..
I don’t see any hone marking on the dizzy hole but then again I’m no expert. I don’t think the engine has ever been apart, the previous owner said it has 63k on it. All the parts appear to be original, all bearings have the ford stamp on them and the pistons are not oversized. I don’t think the metal piece is part of a hone, looking at it I can’t get past the pointed tips, if it held a hone and the stone slipped out, it would leave gauges down the cylinder wall. I don’t think a manufacturer would intentional design that into the hone holder. I think I’m still left wondering what it is.
