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This is a duplicate of my buddy's car that he SOLD
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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OK. Here's one to make you all sick. My brother with his just purchased 67 GT 500 with the very rare 427 medium riser. This in 1974 at a cost of $4700. What would it sell for today? Holy Chit! That car is coveted today! What did your bro do with it? BTW, that looks like the set of the TV show "The Wonder Years" lol
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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I think I would poop a kidney if someone handed me the keys to that thing. After the Cobra THAT car is the last word in my book. Cannot imagine owning that... What a ride....
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"I would build one again, if it were not for my 350RM (grin)."
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So, the galaxie is gone now. I was able to give all of my attention to the mach 1 today. My goal was to remove rear axle and springs, and all of the front suspension, steering etc. Wow, she fought me bad. Wore my ass out. All of the leaf eye bolts were bent. None of them would come out. I feel like I used every tool in the shop to get those bolts out. Porto power, plasma torch, welder, pullers, sawzall, hammers... It was terrible, but I got it. The front end fought me too, but I won. [img] http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e...s/IMG_20150316_193859066_zpsxdtla2ca.jpg[/img] Pulling glass tomorrow, maybe doors too.
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That Mustang is lookin like a gelding right about now...
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I hope hou charge by the hour! You're really taking that sucker down! I'm looking forward to this one....as I e said about 6 times.
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I had an easy day compared to you ND. I split the tracks on an excavator (hammer, no press) and got some undercarriage parts ordered then burnt about 10# of rod on a lowboy. A bunch of hardfacing to do then I can just pull levers all summer. HAHAHAHA I wish. I'm happy to see you do what you love and do an amazing job as well. It's great being close enough to go see these works-of-art in person.
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White Bear sometimes treads on thin ice...
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OK Dave, free advice time though I would gladly send you check. My '73 Mach 1 has a "new", by receipts, steering box (PS BTW) yet an azzload of slop. The rest of the steering components appear to be tight and it is clear eyeballing things that the wheel movement starts before the output of the box begins. I found a fair bit of slop in the worm gear lash adjustment but not all. As I have been lead to believe, one should back out said lash and tighten the input shaft bushing nut first, then the lash. Thoughts? PM if needed.
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"Dave the DESTROYER" But then he makes it more than right!
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
"Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison.
I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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I hope hou charge by the hour! You're really taking that sucker down! I'm looking forward to this one....as I e said about 6 times. ME TOO... I love the looks of those Machs...
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69 Pro-Constitution. LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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Hi Ed.
I hate to draw focus away from the steering gear because i'm sure you are right, but have you looked at idler arm?
for a lot of these steering boxes, not just mustangs, rebuilt doesn't mean much in the way of internals.
I'm not intimately familiar with the steering gear set up process for your car but often times there is a lengthy process which involves lock to lock rotation, a torque wrench on the steering shaft, certain tire contact pressure with the floor etc...
I will have a 5 volume shop manual in a couple of days, if I get a chance I'll have a look in there for you.
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Also, power or manual sector? Power assist?
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The 71-73 Mustangs, like Ed's, use a Saginaw 800 steering box……huge improvement over the previous power steering system used in Mustangs.
Bought a saginaw 800 box out of an IROC Z (fast ratio, high effort) for my son's 73 Mustang convertible project. Different mounting points, so we may have to swap the IROC internals into the Mustang case, but should be a great upgrade over the factory box.
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Current mustang related tool death toll, 4 broken Philips #2 bits, the one on the right is an impact bit. I think ford used weapons grade unobtonium/fooktemper alloy screws in 1969.
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Are you going to do any chassis stiffening modifications? Those Mustangs were kind of flexible flyers.
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If it was mine I would.
I'm going to get it back to the strength it had from the factory first, we will see from there.
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Still amazes me Dave, that you can leave bare metal exposed up there. That thing would have surface rust in a matter of hours here.
Clyde
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I guess I'm lucky that way. We have some crappy winters, the heating bill makes me think I'm crazy, but I can leave stuff.like this sanded bare metal for months.
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after scraping some undercoating and also what looks like roofing tar, i discovered some troubling findings up in both torque box areas (front). It looks as if someone replaced front TB's . This scares the hell out of me due to the quality of work that I have unearthed through the rest of the car. I can see that the toe boards are gone over the top of the torque boxes. Someone decided to say the hell with it and just run the torque box tops as floors. Inner cowl sides are ate up as well. Someone was in the area, replaced torque boxes with tiny little flux core mig welds, at least half of which are missed welds, and they didnt fix the cowl sides or toe boards. My fear is that they also did not locate the torque boxes correctly. The TB on the LH side is the wrong one for the car, there is no guide tube for the E-brake cable. (so they just unbolted the e-brake and tossed it) [img] http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e...s/IMG_20150317_181117479_zps5ns4zyfx.jpg[/img] here is one of many bandaid style overlay patches I rempved from the fender well side of the torque box to firewall area. Anyone missing a glossy brown metallic chunk of metal from their 1992 Bonneville? [img] http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e...G_20150317_181725404_HDR_zps5ol9jcts.jpg[/img] I'm going to crack open the RH cowl side today and try to develop a plan to move forward.
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