Filed under: 70 Mustang Coupe, In the shop, Maybe next week, Projects | Tags: Ford, Interior, Mustang, mustang coupe, Parts and Accessories, seat riser, slide rails
70 Mustang coupe
Squeaky Toy is back home. Actually it has been here since Dec 27. Today was productive and the 50ish weather was awesome! I did get the dash and brace back in. No problem. Put the seats back in … Problem! When I sat down in the driver seat something didn’t look quite right. So a bit of surveying the area revealed that apparently the new repop seat riser is not the same height as the factory Ford unit. Crap! A quick run to the house and flipping through the catalog revealed that I did have the correct piece installed. I have run into this in the past and it is not that uncommon Kinda like an inch shorter all the way around. No biggie, now that I know what the logistics are! A set of one inch risers on the driver seat slide rails will solve the problem easily. So it’s off to my steel guy to get some square tubing. Another project for another day.
Filed under: 70 Mustang Coupe, General, In the shop, Projects | Tags: Bob, Christmas, Holidays
70 Mustang coupe
Squeaky Toy is at the metal doctor
Well I have to tell you right now that my stomach hurts! Why you ask? Because I shipped Faye Deans 70 Mustang off to a friend to have some metal work done. And not having one of my “metal children’ under my control is twisting me up. Weird but true. But I am Santa Claus. And finally finding someone up to the task is really a great holiday present, so to speak. Tony is going to fix it up for me. So with a glass of Captain and Doctor by my side I am here letting you know that I am a bit twisted up right now. But Faye Dean says it will be fixed and I can finish it up for her soon. At least someone is here to calm me down. Between Faye and the Captain I think I will be good to go.
My friends at Big Jim’s Towing came and got the 70 this afternoon and delivered it to the shop. So now it is a wait and see as to when it will be finished so I can get it back. It has been a while finding someone to do the work I need done. Finding someone you can trust and getting good work done at a reasonable price has been a long search. But a business acquaintance is up to the task and is taking it on as I write.
So consider yourself informed and even with the holiday and all I may actually make some headway on this car very soon. Hopefully it will be up and running for Gratiot in May. Woodward Dream Cruise for sure!
Stay tuned for updates! I am both anxious and relieved. Now, on with the festivities! A few more Captains and I will be one jolly MF!
Happy Holiday from Bob’s Garage
Filed under: 54 Ford Lowrider, 65 Mustang Coupe, 70 Mustang Coupe, Car Deco, General, Projects
Or How I managed to take a week off and get nothing done
Been vacating this week and really haven’t gotten much of what I had planned done! But… spent some great time with Faye Dean. Going out on my birthday and a couple other times out during this week. Lots of Captain Morgan and Jethro Tull and outdoor time!
With that said one project that agitated me for a couple of reasons, was mounting, er…planning to mount, some rocker panel mouldings on the 65 to give it a bit of a trim upgrade. I cruised all the way out to Canton and National Parts Depot to get a new set of rocker trim mount clips. I get home and during the setup for the mounting of the trim I discovered that I had managed to ignore the fact that I had two right side units! I must take the blame for this one. I got them at a swap meet and they were bundled by the ends. The packaging hid this fact. And once I laid them out is when I discovered the pair were the same side. They are close but not the same. My bad, no biggie just agitating. Since they were swap meet stuff I have all winter to swap hunt and get another single or pair. Oh well! Got the clips!
Didn’t get any harness wiring or trim done on the 54 like I had planned but it will be there in the morrow. Front fenders are ready to be patched if I get energetic. Have to relevel the 54 suspension since the 351/AOD combo unloaded about 250 pounds off the front end! Now I have a nice tail down California rake, but I want it more even. Have to put smaller blocks in the back. I will install the Airlift add-on kit at the same time.
The 70 dash is farther along but not finished up yet. Switch panel is prototyped and mocked in. Passenger side insert is patterned but the driver side is still to do. Don’t know yet if I can dupe that side for the driver side yet or not. Gotta leave room for gauges and mounts that aren’t on the passenger side. still finagling with it
Small progress and sore hands. But I will take it! Old age sucks BIG TIME! But I will keep at it.
Note – I did manage to get resources for a new lamp! Stay tuned for a Car Deco update! [Hint code name:Satel-LIGHT]
I am just getting around to swapping out the factory intake for the new Edelbrock and Holley combo. Ripped er….. removed the old cast iron monster and 2100 out and will spend some time on cleanup and prep before I drop the new combo in. Gotta degunkify the top section and get the petrified gaskets off the surfaces after all the years of running. Bolts are all cleaned and prepped and new washers are waiting. No biggie but still a project none the less. Will work till my hands say stop.
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- Edelbrock intake and Holley carb
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- After the Intake-ektomy!
70 Mustang coupe
I went and picked up my new roller timing chain set from Advance and spent the remainder of the morning and early afternoon getting all of the prettified face back on the 302. It appears that all the work that was done to the front cover area before was to put in a new timing chain. It was not original but still badly stretched. So all was not for naught!
After a few small exciting events like dropping a cover bolt lock washer though the small open area at the front of the oil pan and having to fish it out and smacking the fire out of my already sore hand I continued on. Some yelling and screaming was involved to make it all better. After that the only real frustrating part of the reinstall was that on the first couple of tries to mount the timing cover the two small sections of gasket that cover the 4 front pan bolts kept taking a dive as I set the cover in place but on the third attempt it cooperated long enough to get the unit fastened from below with a couple of bolts. I may just replace the pan gasket at a later time to keep these from becoming a problem later. Another project for another day.
All the recently painted brackets, dip stick and timing pointer are back in and doing well. Fuel pump is also back home in the front cover. The alternator is remounted so now I can move on to finishing up the wiring for the 3G alternator upgrade. It may also just grit my teeth and go ahead and do the intake/carb swap while I am in the mood. But not today! Don’t think I have the gaskets anyway! Gotta stop for now and rehydrate and hide in the shade on the patio for a little bit.
70 Mustang Coupe
Also titled RTFM! (Read The Frickin Manual)
The latest installment is the teardown and cleanup of the rear roll down quarter windows in Fayes’ 70 Mustang Coupe. Over the years they have been cranky ( no pun intended!) so I have tore them down, cleaned out the 40 years of crud and gook, lubed and reassembled the beasties. And after installing them they even work! Holy Moley!
I did learn, er… relearn, a valuable lesson about reading the manual if all else fails. The problem arose while trying to extract the quarter window assembly in the “conventional” manner, After removing the mount screws from the assembly and wrestling for a long bit with how to get it out the lower area it became readily apparent that this was not possible. Remembering I had the factory manual on hand I fetched it and found the section on how to remove the quarter glass assembly. Well …. if you TILT the glass to the inside and come UP through the jamb it slides right out! What The…! 10 seconds later up and out.
With it all back in the glide up and down with a minimal effort. But even after all these years I still had to RTFM to get it done. Lesson learned, now what else can I get done.
Filed under: 70 Mustang Coupe, General, In the shop, Maybe next week, Projects
70 Mustang Coupe
I finally got to the removal of the front timing cover of the 70 motor. After getting all the other goofy stuff out of the way I was finally able to remove the front timing cover in order to find out why something up front was growling and also why we were slinging oil out the crank. It was a discovery that the water pump was an original D0 unit and the bearings had finally expired causing the growling. As for the leaking oil that became obvious when I removed the cover. The crank seal was age cracked in 4 places and was also original in very poor condition. The cover showed signs of being removed at some point before I got it because the goofies used red RTV to seal it back, They did cut away the front section of the pan seals but just red RTV’d it all back together.
Now with the factory front cover, crank seal and water pump still installed we are confused as to why this cover was removed at all. There is some play in the timing chain so it will be replaced before we reassemble the front area. So we will get the cover cleaned and painted, the new water pump is already painted and the new gasket set is here too. So as soon as I can prep and paint the factory cover and get a new chain we, er….. I, will put it all back together. A project for another day!
