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So the work continues....Friday night Scott the welder came over and helped me pull the fenders/hood off the car. I then wrapped them in moving blankets and put them someplace safe. Then I got to work on stripping down parts and getting them ready for sandblasting/powder coating

Cut the old probably original axle bearings off...
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Saturday morning I drove down to Wilmington Delaware and picked this up. New/rebuilt third member for the rear end. I was mentioning how I wanted to upgrade the rear in this car to a posi...So I looked into the cost of the part, labor to put it together (I dont have a bearing press and I have never built one of these) and turns out I was able to trade my used one for a new one for about the cost of the posi and the labor..so it made sense to me to do it this way. The guy who built it...Northeast classic ford part...He's into restoring first gen broncos...Had about 10 of them in his shop in different conditions...Really cool place.


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While im going to save some of the suspension pieces, things like the control arms im replacing...They are beyond shot.

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I spent a bunch of time with the angle grinder cleaning all of this up and getting it ready for paint, fun stuff.

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I did wrap the whole car first.

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wire wheel on the angle grinder sends some nice chunks flying

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Some stuff going for just blasting, some powder coating, steering box is getting rebuilt
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box of all new stainless brakelines

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Rear disc conversion

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All and all going well. should have everything painting in the next couple of days, then i can start putting stuff on the car.
 
So its been a good week or so of work on the car....

Got some of the brakelines done....I realized I needed some more clips, so I couldnt finish this, but just getting them layed out and ready was a good start. Then I was able to figure out what I was missing and order everything. Man this lift has been money so far.
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Been cleaning up some parts and getting them ready....this car came with Kelsey hayes dual piston calipers
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I have all new suspension, but some of the hardware is still at the sandblaster/powder coating guys shop, so this is all I have hardware for at the moment. But the cleaning and painting of all of this is done.

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I took apart the shifter, cleaned and re-greased everything...

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Finished putting the trans back together...

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So what else....

Brake/fuel line parts are coming today or tomorrow

Suspension parts are either at my house or will be finished at the powder coater in the next day or so.

Steering box is being rebuilt...I didnt want to tackle this one, especially for the price im paying to get it done

So its coming...I dont have every part I need yet, so im trying to get whatever done that I can. But in the next few weeks im hoping to have the fuel/brake lines done, suspension back in the car.
 
So, since you're not racing bikes you let your hair grow...is this the mechanic look?

Do u have AC in the garage, it must be hot as hell wearing a respirator and face shield.
 
pooriggy said:
So, since you're not racing bikes you let your hair grow...is this the mechanic look?

Do u have AC in the garage, it must be hot as hell wearing a respirator and face shield.
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No AC in the garage, I have a nice fan tho...as much as I love AC, doesnt bother me in the garage.


Santapez said:
Nobody would blame you if you put a transmission that wasn't derived from farm equipment in the car...
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Tremec makes a nice low profile 6 speed now...but $1000 bell housing, $4000 trans, twin disc clutch, transmission tunnel sectioning, new driveshaft, custom crossmember....not in the budget.

And not the toploader.....I mean ya its ancient, but its probably the best 4 speed design in history...god they are still making versions (albeit stronger) almost 60 years later.
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My bro is a 3rd generation auto body repairman. I had to fix my first car when I was 15/16. It was a stock 4speed Ford Escort that we made an escort GT with racing stripes. Replaced quarter panel, fenders rocker panels, etc. Reinstall interior. sanded everything. My Dad did the painting. That was when I knew I’d never again do body work. Almost just decided not to get my license. What pain in the ass work, LOL. My dad had bought two ‘62 Chevy Impalas from ajunk yard and wanted me to fix one for my car. I didn’t want it because it was to old looking. Went with the escort instead. I’m sure that’s when my Dad decided I wasn’t his favorite son. My bro can fix anything now.
 
Ok im not a HUGE fan of the 62 chevys....I never liked the curved A piller myself...but an ESCORT? Does your dad still have it?

Got home last night, thought about going for a ride, but fuck riding in the rain in August for the THIRD day in a row. There was a giant box waiting for me that turned out to be my new fuel lines...YA!!! I decided to wait until after putting child to bed to tackle that... But, figured some detailing of the rearend would be a fun one for Bob to help me with. I'm not going crazy with this stuff, but I'm trying to put the marks back where I found them originally....
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Came out good enough... Green stripe was for 3:00 ratio, open... That way the assembly line people could easily identify it when they needed to pick and install...

So afterwards I went back out to play with the fuel line.. This was about an hour and a half of wasted time... Turns out there are two totally different fuel lines used in 67, I ordered the wrong one.
 
So the work continues, slowly. The guy who is blasting and powder coating a bunch of my parts is taking his sweet time, so im a bit stalled at the moment.

Howeverrrrr. I did use a 10% off coupon and a bunch of points I had with CJ pony parts to buy my hydraulic clutch conversion kit. This is something I have been want to do forever as the clutch in the mustang is so awful. So if your not familiar with how a clutch in a 67 mustang works...this simple and clear illistation should show you how much is sucks

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There is no less that 7 plastic bushing in all of this old timey mechanical linkage that:
A. suck
B. IMPOSSIBLE to get to and replace unless the car is torn apart like mine is
C. wear out really quickly as they are located on the side of the engine and exposed to alot of heat.

In addition, that big giant bar you see in the middle known as the "Z bar" does not play well with my long tube headers. I had to modify the hell out of it to make it fit.

So im going to toss of this shit in the trash can and replace it with this......Wilwood Hyd master on the firewall to connect to the clutch pedal...(if your a bike person...Think of the clutch pedal as your brake lever)
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Then on the transmission side, im going to install a Tilton hydraulic throw-out bearing

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So the only thing needed to connect the clutch pedal to the trans will be a hydraulic line....

If your not a car person and trying to follow along...Thing of it like using a lever and a series of links to pull on your handle bar to work the brakes....Then compare it to your fancy hydro disc brakes. Essentially the same thing.

I started taking this all apart last night to begin the conversion.

I decided to remove the clutch pedal and check the bushing, glad I did as it was pretty warn. Also have to remove the giant spring which was a bit of a pain....Anything under the dashboard of your car sucks to work.

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Then I started looking at where this attaches to the car...the pedal box as its called....the bushing on it was also ovaled and worn...So I decided to remove it. They make great repair kits for these which replace these awful plastic bushings with metal ones.

Interesting tho...I noticed this label on it. Turns out this must have been replaced at one point.
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So I guess the original one broke at some point. Looks like ford shipped this to ABC Motors in Cliffside park...I see Dec. 1970 on the corner.

I love finding little things like this

Anyway, so not a ton of work going on at the moment, still waiting for parts.
 
It will be interesting to compare the clutch/transmission of your 67 to my 17. Gotta be night and day - these new manuals are so ridiculously easy, won't even roll backwards on a hill.
 
The hill assist in my Honda is basically perfect. I think it was a month before I even noticed the car had it. Just barely enough brake to keep you from rolling back and the time before it cuts out is pretty minimal so you're not trying to roll backwards on purpose and getting angry you cant.
 
rick81721 said:
It will be interesting to compare the clutch/transmission of your 67 to my 17. Gotta be night and day - these new manuals are so ridiculously easy, won't even roll backwards on a hill.
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well yours is much better in several ways....Lighter..(mine is cast iron), im sure its stronger since your car is making 526hp and mine was 320...most of all though, your trans has an internal rail shifter....where mine has the old style external linkage. You can vastly improve myself up with heim join links and a hurst shifter, but its still never going to have the kind of feel your shifter would.

Hill holder? god my new focus doesnt even have that.
 
UtahJoe said:
Hill holder? god my new focus doesnt even have that.
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I got curious and did some searching. It turns out there is a convoluted way to disable the hill assist involving hitting the brake pedal in neutral with parking brake on 5 times, turning the wheel fully both directions, then brake pedal again 5 times. I want to teach my son how to drive a manual in this car so will leave in engaged for now.
 
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