Topic: Calling all Gen I Escort Gods
So I am doing a good Samaritan thing tomorrow. Another kind soul is donating (for the nominal fee of $100) a 1989 Escort 2-door he has owned since 1994...and even drove 3K miles round trip to ask for his wife's hand in marriage permission from the father...to helping out a Vet a little down on his luck. It has about 1 gazillion miles on it but its only active mechanical flaw is a rapidly failing clutch,
It is an MTX-II 4-speed and internet lore is sketchy at best. It appears the clutch swap is best done pulling the passenger half shaft, unbolt and remove a bunch of stuff, remove the driver half shaft from the hub, unbolt the tranny and slip it out to the drivers side. Ford in their infinite wisdom appears to have built the diff in such a way that both axles cannot be removed without a placeholder in the diff or it falls apart.
Do I have that basically right?