Hey guys its me again, well I took my 89 bird to a shade tree machanic to change out the timing chain and heads well turned out he never finished it so I picked it up and took it to my dad's, now there are little things here and there missing and I want to try and solve this problem the simplest way so my questing is this, Is there a complete fastener kit for the 2.8 v6 engine with hardware for all the accesories as well, all I am in needs of are the bolts and nuts and stuff, no brackets or anything, so please guys help me out.

 

Find your nearest junk yard and get what you think you need. Thats the easiest and safest way to find the correct bolts and what nots. Thats what I did!

 

Thats what I do also...just go to the junkyard with plenty of ziploc bags and a permanent marker. Good idea for lots of hard to find bolts. There are specialty bolt vendors like Gardner-Wescott, but they don't have kits for our engines.

 

How did he loose the bolts? Please tell me you didnt pay him.

 

Well its a long story, the guy used to be what I called a friend until I took my car to him, I had already taken my 72 chevy truck to him and had no trouble, well with this one he was more interested in fixing his stuff rather than me a paying customer, the good news is I leaned a valuable lesson, never conduct bussiness with friends, especially when its with YOUR ONLY DEPENDABLE CAR!!!, the other good news is I may have found a bolt kit but I'm not sure if they supply one for the mpfi version of the 2.8, if it gets too bad I'll just drop in a tbi 305 and call it done

 

with no disrespect to you or any other 305 owner out there...i would not replace a v6 with a 305! especially not a TBI 305! they are about 200-300 lbs heavier and don't make enough more power (hp or tq) to make the swap worth it unless you dump a decent amount of money in the motor before you swap it in.