tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85016167016076497682024-03-12T18:05:30.410-07:00Mustang68.commustang68.comPapa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-63602516249876123182019-05-26T05:30:00.000-07:002019-05-26T05:30:04.942-07:00glass dayYes, another post, and this one took place back in in November 2016: With the exhaust system all buttoned up, we were really close to firing up the engine. In preparation, I put the 68 front-first into the garage on its return. But wait a minute....first we had to do something about the windshield and backlite.<br />
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Installing the windshield is a complex process best left to a professional, apparently. Even the <a href="http://bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> hardcore sub this job out. So, as usual, I decided to have a bash myself, with some help - this is not a task that could be accomplished independently, and I speak as a someone who lifted an engine block onto the bench on my own.<br />
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I studied half a dozen YouTube videos in advance, and came up with my own composite method. All the supplies we needed were purchased from <a href="https://www.acehardware.com/store-details/02015?utm_source=google&utm_medium=localstore&utm_campaign=">Ellis Ace Hardware</a> on MLK. Window seals and a few extra clips came from <a href="http://www.npdlink.com/">NPD</a>, and I got a great deal on a replacement windshield from my friends at <a href="http://www.mostly-mustangs.com/">Mostly Mustangs</a> (also on MLK).<br />
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We got started by removing the speakers and the package tray that were installed a year or so earlier (more on this later), and then I laid the new seal on the trunk lid and checked for any damage. Most people lay the seal out in the sun for 20 minutes to warm it up, but we were were doing this in a garage in November so I gave it a light going-over with the heat gun instead.<br />
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My assistant gave the original back glass a good pre-install cleaning. We used **** glass cleaner which comes in an aerosol can and produces a white foam; it worked great. The back glass has been moved from attic to basement to garage to attic to garage a few times since I took it out in 2010.<br />
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Installed the rubber seal onto the back glass and a bead of **** was laid down in the channel that meets the edge of the glass. Samuel Bear's old Spiderman blanket was a perfect backdrop.<br />
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A bead of **** was laid down into channel that meets the edge of the car body. You can add more of this once the window is in place.<br />
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I prepared the opening by installing the clips for the trim pieces and marked the location of each clip with a piece of tape - this is important because you need to see the clips to install the molding, and they are obscured after the window goes in.<br />
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This is with the window laid on top of the opening and with most of the bottom edge of the seal installed correctly. We tapped one end of the rope to the inside of the window and hung the other end outside. The rope was very carefully pulled round the perimeter of the seal while the second pair of hands pressed on the glass from the outside.<br />
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All done. At this stage we were wondering what all the fuss was about. We took a break and hit up Guido's for lunch.<br />
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Came back from lunch and did the same thing with the windshield. This was a little bit more difficult because we were installing a modern replacement (with tinted glass!) and the glass was about a third of the thickness of the original and thus felt much more fragile. I had to be even more careful with the roping-in, but the windshield turned out to be suitably robust.<br />
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The inside got a good clean. At this point, the protocol is to add a lot more caulk to the junction of the rubber seals with the car body, however we skipped this step for now as I will probably be taking the windows out again when the car is painted.<br />
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Time to put the package tray and speakers back together. When I wrote about customizing the package tray in <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2015/01/sounds-great.html">January 2015</a>, I stopped at the photo below...<br />
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The next step of that particular project can now be revealed:<br />
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This is how it looked the first time it was installed:<br />
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This is how it looks through glass with the rear window trim all put back:<br />
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All in all, an excellent day's work.<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-43849044907246052122018-12-17T22:14:00.000-08:002018-12-17T22:14:00.209-08:00muffler day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Here's the 68 sitting in the parking lot at the muffler shop. This was the first time it had been outside the garage and not on a tow truck in about seven years (at the time).<br />
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While the 68 was away I swept the leaves and crud out of the garage and had a general tidy up.<br />
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I didn't get to see the car while it was up on the lift, but the folks at Ron's were good enough to snap a couple of pictures for me. This one shows the sparkly new Flowmaster 50's. The guys at Ron's fabricated everything from the headers back. Marcus told me he really enjoyed working on the car.<br />
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I also had Marcus weld on some straight-cut chrome tips I bought from Summit.<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-27667199659432309612018-12-10T05:30:00.001-08:002018-12-10T05:30:05.932-08:00the next next bitApril 2016: things were really getting moving along nicely at this point. Every trip to the garage consisted of opening up a previously restored part or a packet of zinc-plated fasteners; followed by adding them to the car and connecting the electrical wires.<br />
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As previously mentioned, most of this work was not recorded, but several oddities did make it into the record.<br />
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Bolted on my carburetor. This is a Holley 650 which a friend from <a href="http://bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> rebuilt for me.<br />
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This is how my chrome-plated single-wire alternator and supporting bracket setup looks from above. I didn't really need a chrome alternator, but one became available from one of the BAMA guys at the same price as a standard new one. Gutting the setup right took a bit of experimentation. I ended up making some custom spacers out of whatever I could find; these we be replaced at some point, I hope.<br />
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It was about this time that I started to have serious concerns about the height of the engine and whether I was going to be able to close the hood. A quick inaccurate check with a piece of tape confirmed it - the air cleaner stud was sticking up an least an inch longer than it needed to be.<br />
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So...now what? Well, apart from custom motor mounts, the best idea I could come up with was a dropped base for the air cleaner - just like the one below in fact. Simple. Except it wouldn't fit past the distributor cap.<br />
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I tried a couple of other options, including an off-set base and an off-set/dropped base but neither would fit, mainly thanks to the Holley 650 poking out its corners. The briefly half empty shelves at the back of the garage began to fill up with air cleaner parts. Look closely in the bottom left corner and you can see the factory air cleaner assembly from Jimmy Hoffa's 67 K-code fastback.<br />
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From lengthy online research I established that the off-set/dropped base I had on my garage shelf was the only such item available on the entirety of the interwebs. And since it didn't fit, I was stuck with looking at other options:<br />
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1. Custom engine mounts - the thought of having to take the engine out again, even if this would work, was not appealing.<br />
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2. Hood scoop - I did actually look into this idea, but none of the fiberglass hood scopes on the market are as wide as my gigantic air cleaner. And even if they were, it would be a lot of work and would look stupid.<br />
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3. The BFH. After full consideration, I decided to customize the off-set/dropped base by whacking it with the BFH until it fitted over the carburetor. This actually took two attempts with a hiatus of several days while I waited for the replacement to arrive.<br />
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By the time this was finally resolved, in the summer of 2016, I had also re-installed the radiator and hooked up all the hoses. The engine compartment wiring was essentially complete.<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-87394114006688477382018-12-03T05:30:00.000-08:002018-12-03T05:30:04.007-08:00the next bitJanuary 2016: with the fenders all restored and back on the car it was time to re-build the front of the car and and finish the wiring in the engine compartment. I started with a Dynacorn front valance - I still have the the original, but it has several dents and some rust and I couldn't be bothered to restore it. The replacement was an excellent fit. I can't say the same for the stone guard - the reproduction part was awful, so it was back to my shed to restore the original.<br />
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As usual, the first step was accomplished with a mixture of the trusty wire wheel and some aircraft stripper I had left over from <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2011/12/im-done-with-strippers.html">this project</a>.<br />
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There were several holes in the stone guard that I didn't really need. I blame whoever installed the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2010/05/bye-bye-ugly-ac.html">1970's AC</a>. The holes were filled in with the MIG welder and ground down, painted with primer, yada yada...<br />
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And it dropped right in! No adjustment required. The picture below was taken a bit later after the front bumper had been bolted on.<br />
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I also installed new trim pieces - the originals have irreparable AC-related damage.<br />
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I bought a reproduction grille and installed the original trim pieces and my custom GT fog lights with their zinc-plated mounting brackets.<br />
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The back bumper was bolted on around the same time. Both bumpers need re-chroming at some point in the future. The rear bumper is also slightly bowed.<br />
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At the end of January 2016, Amy and I took an early morning trip to the world famous <a href="http://www.turlockswapmeet.com/">Turlock Swap Meet</a>, where, among other things, I was finally able to locate the third member I've been looking for all these years. Older readers may <strike>recall</strike> be interested to know that I have been rolling the car around on a 3.00:1 gear ratio, which just happened to come with the eight inch rear axle I acquired for this project, while searching for something a bit lower....at the right price.<br />
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The key here, as often, is price. I was reluctant to drop a thousand bucks on a complete third member when I already had one, and I was quoted a similar amount for a local shop to swap out the gears....so I sat tight and waited.....and then found almost exactly what I wanted (3.40:1 rather than 3.50:1), at a price I could not quite believe.<br />
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The following weekend the housing was painted with Eastwood brake gray and installed with a new gasket and some shinny copper nuts and washers that I got from NPD.<br />
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Back to work on the engine...I installed the distributor and most of the under-hood wiring was done by this point.<br />
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The valve covers had been wrapped up and stored for over three years when I broke them out in March 2016. The export brace came from a Turlock visit in 2011. Installing the brace was seriously difficult but I made it fit.<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-33958909881155786362018-11-26T05:30:00.000-08:002018-11-26T05:30:01.940-08:00repairing the fendersDecember 2015: now this is where things went off at a tangent...again! Most of the bodywork on this project was done back in 2011 when I was custodian of a very large garage in Hayward known as the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/search?q=green+room">green room</a>. The body shell and most of the parts that will someday be repainted body color were stripped down, repaired, primed with PPG epoxy and treated with body filler (rinse & repeat etc.). So far so good, but when the time came to move garage the trunk lid, hood and both fenders were still in “pre-restored” condition.<br />
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And that’s how they remained, for a number of reasons, but mainly because the garage I moved to was too small to set up a welder and a paint gun. Fast forward to the Christmas/New Year holiday at the end of 2015 and I had to decide whether I was going to put a pair of horrible rusty fenders back on my nice clean car....or do something else?<br />
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The something else came down to a straight choice between stopping the rebuild to restore the fenders, or replacing them with reproduction parts and getting back on with the rest of the assembly asap. I must admit to a lot of back and forth on this. While Dynacorn™ reproduction fenders are available for less than $150 each through Tony at <a href="http://restorationpartssource.com/">RPS in Hayward</a>, I was really concerned that they would not line up properly. But then my original fenders were not in the best of shape either and I knew they would take a lot of precious time to restore. Ultimately I decided on restoration of the originals.<br />
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Over the Christmas holidays at the end of 2015 I took the fenders off the car and transported them the three blocks back to the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2014/09/and-now-for-something-completely.html">shed</a> I built the summer before last. Here is the "before" photo:<br />
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I broke out the wire wheel and ground off all the accessible rust and grot from the inside of the passenger fender.<br />
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The only seriously damaged area was in the bottom corner at the rear of the fender. This area was cut out with the screaming wheel of death and replaced with new metal using the MIG welder than had been stuck inside a box for the prior four years.<br />
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The repaired area was the filled with Bondo™ and sanded, more than once.<br />
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A similar repair was made at the inside.<br />
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The bare metal was painted with rust converter which was sprayed in the areas I couldn’t get to with a brush. Lovely jubbly.<br />
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All these steps were repeated with the driver side fender over the following few days. My shed was too small to work on more than one at a time. When they were both completed, I broke out the replacement fender ornaments I've had in storage for...well years, obviously. The engine has been upgraded from the 200 cid straight six, to the 351 cid Windsor, and I wanted to mark that with the right "351W" fender badges, even though this engine was not available in the Mustang in 1968. Of the four pegs which secure the new ornament, three are in the same place as the originals so I had to drill one extra hole in the fender....better to do this now than after paint!<br />
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The original splash guards were in awful shape so I bought replacement parts from <a href="http://npdlink.com/">NPD</a> and assembled them in my shed.<br />
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I installed the replacement splash guards back at the garage:<br />
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I also attached the front fender caps which were refurbished and spray painted with epoxy primer way back when.<br />
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Finally the fenders were hung on the car and the headlight buckets installed. Happy New Year 2016!<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-48162181899974241622018-11-20T05:30:00.000-08:002018-11-20T05:30:00.381-08:00engine parts and cable clutchFall 2015: the engine was in, the water and fuel pumps were installed, and the brake system was complete.<br />
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Next up: the radiator. This how it looked in about 2012 when I acquired it from one of my mates in <a href="http://bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a>. I think it was painted either at the last garage or at the <a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gkeesvN27qE/Tc2LBwpg9sI/AAAAAAAACFI/Uvp32tweMWs/s1600/20110511_mustang_753+%255B800x600%255D.JPG">Green Room</a> along with most of the other black engine parts.</div>
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I have a custom overflow bottle which I painted at the same time along with the side panels which help attach the radiator to the car.<br />
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This is how the radiator looked after installation. I had to take it back out later on to do the wiring... </div>
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I may have mentioned earlier that step-by-step photos just don't exist for much of this period, and anyway, most of it was just bolting on shinny new parts that had been sitting in their boxes for a year or more.<br />
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I had decided to replace the original clutch linkage with a cable. Thankfully for a novice like me, the guys at <a href="http://www.moderndriveline.com/">Modern Driveline</a> have produced a kit which makes it very easy to marry up the cable with the original zinc-plated clutch pedal and my modern Tremec T5 transmission. I also got a replacement speedometer cable at the same time, and I had the gears setup for the 3.40:1 differential.<br />
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Installing the kit was easy. The only issue was that I had to remove the master cylinder and disconnect the push rod before I could install the supporting plate. Installing the speedometer cable was a bit more involved. The first one I tried was about a foot too long, so I had to get a replacement, and I had to take the instrument cluster out twice. This was all too tedious to photograph.<br />
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This is how the distribution block and proportioning valve looked after the master cylinder was re-installed and the brake system bled....again....<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-50933560354195655462018-11-15T05:30:00.001-08:002018-11-15T05:30:05.745-08:00Yes, I'm Back!There was a time when my blog posts would start of with "....its been six months again..." Well, this one is actually being written three (3) years after the last post...and that was only some photos from a car show! So what happened? Well, the simple answer is that life is what happens while you're busy making other plans, to coin a phrase.<br />
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When I left off, in October 2015, I was still getting settled into my new garage, even though the 68 had been in situ for almost a year. I had quickly discovered that although the garage was located just three blocks from the house, in many ways, it might as well have been on the moon. I just couldn't find the motivation to saddle up and walk over there if I only had half an hour, so progress became minimal.<br />
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The house/garage move had also coincided with an expansion in our family and their needs coupled with a kitchen remodel didn't leave much time for tinkering with a car. I did carry on chipping away through most of 2016, but the pace was so slow that I essentially abandoned this blog in the summer of that year. I also became slack about documenting what progress I had made and I'd often forget to take the camera when I did find a couple of hours to sneak over to the garage.<br />
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There was an upsurge in productivity towards the end of 2016, and it really looked like the car would be running in the new year. However, in early 2017 I received the disappointing news that my landlord was not going to renew the lease on the garage. After moving the car three times since I took it apart in 2010, it was time to pack up and ship out once more.<br />
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This time around, I could not find a suitable garage space to put the car where I could (occasionally) wrench on it. It was with much sadness that the car was moved to a short term storage unit out by Oakland Airport in March 2017. Around this time it became clear that owning and living in a house without either a garage or off-street parking had run it's course. In April 2017 we began preparing our house for sale, and in August we moved to our new pad. Obviously it comes with a double garage this time and a big driveway. The 68 was delivered to its new home in October 2017. It had been away eight (8) months.<br />
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The last year has been incredibly hectic, and it's fair to say the majority of my free time has been devoted to smarting up out new pad - point your browser at <a href="http://thepapasheep.com/">this link</a> if you're interested in that particular project - but I've found a few hours here and there to work on the Mustang, and thanks to all my buddies in <a href="http://bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> my interest has been revived.<br />
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This blog was always intended to be a personal diary of the 68 restoration, and while it's tempting to post the most up-to-date progress on the car, I have decided I will build up to that by first documenting what I've accomplished in the past three years.<br />
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To be continued.....I promise!Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-10094316340496833722015-10-19T20:17:00.000-07:002015-10-19T20:17:35.569-07:00Mustangs Plus 2015It's been a while since I've been out to the <a href="http://mustangsplus.com/">Mustangs Plus</a> show, but this weekend I set the alarm for 4:30 am (!) and joined up with the <a href="http://bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> guys for the trek out to Stockton.<br />
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Mustangs Plus is all about getting there early in order to snag one of the better parking spaces, so for the last few years the BAMA folks have been leaving earlier and earlier....and it hasn't helped, because everyone else has been doing the same. Fortunately, this year someone in the club managed to pull a few strings with Ron Bramlett and we got a bunch of spaces together very close to the front (and Ron's mic...).<br />
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Among the vendors at the show was longtime friend of <a href="http://www.bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> and eight times <a href="https://www.scca.com/">SCCA</a> National Autocross Champion Mike Maier and the crew from <a href="https://www.mikemaierinc.com/">Mike Maier Inc</a> in Livermore. (Formerly part of Maier Racing Enterprises in Hayward). Mike recently filmed the clip below with the guys from Ford Racing.<br />
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This lime green (in my langugue) MACH 1 was a personal favorite. I like the out-of-the-ordinary stuff.<br />
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It's Mustangs <b>Plus</b> and that means there are always some unusual cars at the show including this very rare 70 cyclone and a cool fairlain.<br />
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Plus the usual selection of what I guess are now mid-period cars.<br />
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Even the USPS tried to "muscle" in on the action!<br />
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Right now I'm concentrating on getting the 68 running again as soon as possible - I want to take it to some <a href="http://www.bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> events before the car goes for paint - so I've skipped over a few things that I'll have to come back to later. One of those was the driveshaft, which I acquired used from my good friends at CP Designs. Normally I would have taken the time to paint it gray to match the rear differential housing, but I don't have anywhere I can use as a paint booth right now. Plus it's not exactly the most difficult part to remove later. The optimum length of the driveshaft with the T5/8 inch rear end is 52 ½ inches from the tail housing seal to the center of the u-joint at the pinion of the differential. I had to buy appropriate U-bolts because the originals were designed for the six cylinder rear end.<br />
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Around the time I installed my SSBC brake setup and new brake lines, I also installed the wider bore ⅜ fuel line I'll need for the V8. The only problem with this, apart from some of my amateurish bends, was that I directed the fuel line to the original location - or in other words, to where the fuel ump used to be when the car had a six cylinder engine. Oops! Rookie error! I'm not sure how long it would have taken me to figure this out if one of my friends hadn't noticed.<br />
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I had to take the fender off to get at the incorrect fuel line, and while I was thinking about how to make a replacement piece, and whether my custom drilled mounting holes in the frame rail would still be usable, I found myself drifting off in a completely different direction.....<br />
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The steering box: back when the 68 was <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2010/04/collection-from-kansas.html">actually running</a>, the steering was as sloppy as a soup sandwich. On a hot day. I'd always planned on figuring out a rebuilt or replacement box closer to the end of the project, but for the purpose of moving the car around I had re-installed the original part. And so, as I was staring down at the misdirected fuel line, I realized the time had come to deal with the steering box - apart from anything else, it was in danger of becoming seriously inaccessible as the engine compartment filled up.<br />
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The options for a steering boil down to:<br />
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<li>Buying a rebuilt box from NPD and using the original as a core to obtain a discount</li>
<li>Buying a after market steering box</li>
<li>Upgrading to power steering</li>
<li>Going for a full-on upgrade to electric power steering as some other folks in <a href="http://www.bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> have done.</li>
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I pretty quickly came to the conclusion that a rebuild is best left to a specialist, and I'm not planning any power assists to start with, so it really comes down to either #2 or #3. After shopping around the various mustang parts houses I managed to find a <a href="http://www.flamingriver.com/">Flaming River</a> aftermarket box for less that $500 from <a href="https://www.mustangsunlimited.com/">Mustangs Unlimited</a>, including free shipping. This is about $50 more than it would cost to buy a rebuilt box from <a href="http://www.npdlink.com/">NPD</a> and pay to ship them the core. The flaming river steering box is on the left in the picture below. I decided not to paint it gray like I did the original.<br />
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After the steering box was installed, I moved on the the instrument cluster which I <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/">wrote about</a> a couple of weeks ago. I had to loose the heater control panel and add the dash pad before the cluster could be eased into place. I'm really happy with the (very slightly) customized look.</div>
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Next I popped in the chrome-plated export brace that I picked up on a visit to <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2011/01/turlock-swap-meet-and-rotation.html">Turlock</a> in 2011 and have been storing in various attic spaces for the last four years. I say "popped in" but in truth it was quite a fight. For a start, installation necessitated removal of the shocks and for another it did not line up exactly right - although it was a lot nearer now the engine is back in place. I basically forced it into position by getting some of the bolts started and pulling the chassis into alignment as the bolts were cranked down. Another job done!</div>
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-28816968507763564902015-10-05T04:30:00.000-07:002015-10-05T04:30:00.858-07:00interior round-upMost of the work described in this post was done at the old garage in preparation for the move - essentially I had to put the seats back in before I could move, and while I'll have to take them back out at some point to restore them (and install the carpet), I wanted to make sure all the surrounding areas were buttoned up.<br />
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Now then, now then: if you're going to drive around in a vintage car, then you have to accept some compromises on safety. I'm fortunate that 68 was the first year that ford replaced the "spear" steering column with a collapsible design and made a number of other modifications to improve safety, such as the rear side marker lights. In addition I've made my own improvements such as the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2015/01/putting-brakes-on.html">SSBC brakes</a> and 3-point seat belts (see below).<br />
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Given what we know about gasoline, it's always surprised me that the gas tank (also known as the trunk floor) is separated from the passenger compartment by nothing more than a flimsy sheet of cardboard and the rear seat back. A common modification among the guys in <a href="http://www.bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> is to install a steel or aluminum sheet instead. I followed this path after my buddy Chuck acquired a suitable obsolete steel sign, which I trimmed, covered with faux-dynamat at the trunk side, and installed with sheet metal screws.<br />
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Absolutely forever ago (when I had the old garage set up as a paint booth) the rear seat side panels were stripped down, and repainted. I had to remove some light surface rust on the inside, and I scrubbed off all the remnants of the old foam sound insulation.<br />
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After painting, thick foam insulation was glued onto the insides of the panels with the 3M yellow weatherstrip adhesive (but not photographed) and the Kraft vapor barriers installed using windshield caulk to provide a seal. To be honest it was really hard to squirt sticky black paste over my beautiful car...but I found a way. After the panels were installed I attached the window winders, and tested the quarter windows....and applied my <a href="http://www.bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> decal in the passenger quarter window.<br />
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Another improved safety feature of the 68 over the earlier cars was shoulder belts as well as lap belts for the front seats. This means that installing 3-point seat belts in a 68 is a good deal easier than in the preceding cars because the upper mounting point is already there. I actually purchased the seat belt kit more than two years ago, because I wanted to test all the mounting points before I put away the welder.<br />
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After I Moved to the present garage I found the seat belts while looking for something else, so I took ten minutes out to installed them. The lap belts in the rear seat are for show. This will be a two-seater car when it's on the road.<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-29461244294312537082015-09-28T04:30:00.000-07:002015-09-28T22:13:53.810-07:00cleaning up the clusterI haven't spent much time on 68 lately, but when opportunities have arisen I've been chipping away at some of the smaller projects I started back before the latest garage move. The instrument cluster worked fine (in 2009...) but I wanted to smarten it up a bit. I know most people replace the stock gauges with something more modern, but I decided to keep mine stock, while doing some subtle customization.<br />
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Started by dismantling the cover. The fluorescent paint on the speedo was sun-faded, so I started by taping-off this area and applying some of the special paint I bought from <a href="https://www.npdlink.com/store/products/paint_gauge_needle_red_orange-145903-1.html">NPD</a> (with a Q-tip, natch).<br />
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I very delicately "clocked" the speedo back to zero, hopefully without breaking it (!)<br />
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The worn "camera case" bezel was dismantled and re-painted with the same black Sign Painters 1-shot lettering enamel that I used on the heater <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/search/label/heater">control panel</a>.<br />
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The gauge trim rings were painted with the ford maroon paint that has been used throughout the interior (this was done forever ago....)<br />
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Good grief, it's been nearly six months! Again! And it's been six months without lifting a wrench in anger. Here's the story: A few days after we <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2015/02/mounting-motor.html">dropped in the engine</a>, it was time to move house again, and part of that was packing up the garage. This was a task that took quite a while. As well as crating up all the tools and parts I had to take down all the shelves and empty out the benches and drawers ready for transport.<br />
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My high school buddy Martin was in town the day we moved the car to its new home. The tires could have done with some air, but otherwise it was straight forward thanks to Mark at <a href="http://www.junebugstowing.com/">Junebugs</a>.<br />
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With a new house to organize, not much happened in the garage for quite a while after the move. I eventually got the work space organized in June 2015.<br />
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A week later it was finally time to work on the car again. Started by installing the radiator.<br />
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To be continued.....Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-59715370349184492692015-02-08T19:33:00.000-08:002015-02-08T19:33:00.085-08:00mounting the motorIf you remember, I put the 351W back together over the summer (with a lot of help from my buddy Chuck!), but we stopped short of adding the intake manifold and valve covers.<br />
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By November these parts were still not installed, but we were ready to install the engine in the car regardless. The main driving force for this was that once again it was time to move garage (and house) and I wanted the powertrain back in before the transfer. A few weeks before the install I acquired a pair of 351W motor mounts from my buddies at <a href="http://www.mostly-mustangs.com/">Mostly Mustangs</a> and tested the fit with the zinc plated mounting bolts that came with the six cylinder setup. <br />
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The lower mounts were attached finger-tight to the cross-member, and the upper brackets were bolted to the engine block according to the detailed instructions from Rich at Mostly Mustangs. Incidentally, on Rich's advice I also enlarged the holes in the upper brackets by about 1/16th of an inch in order to make attaching the engine a little bit easier - this really helped.<br />
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The folks at <a href="http://www.mostly-mustangs.com/">Mostly Mustangs</a> also sorted me out with an appropriate block plate which will replace the six cylinder version. I cleaned up the plate using the previously well-rehearsed wire wheel method.<br />
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A couple of weeks went by before the BIG day, and then we got off to a slow start when we had to chase around half of Oakland looking for a cam plug. We also had to take a detour to Chuck's shop to pick up some clutch bolts and an alignment tool (I think the original bolts disappeared with the I6). After that it was straight into the assembly, and I (mostly) forgot to take progress photos. The now-shinny block plate and my high performance flywheel were cake to install and so was the clutch. Incidentally, the clutch was donated by my BAMA buddy James, the same person that was responsible for this project getting <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2010/04/oil-pan-gasket.html">off the ground</a>*.<br />
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Next we broke out the Tremec T5 that I bought from Chuck about three years ago. I don't think either of us every imagined it would take this long to install it.<br />
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<i>(*It's actually a bit harsh to blame this project on James).</i>Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-83073235971817825602015-01-25T22:08:00.000-08:002015-01-29T10:26:24.852-08:00putting the brakes on<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I always planned to take the replacement Granada rotors and have the hubs turned down so they fit the wheels. But I struggled to find a machine shop that could do this for me. Later I talked to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Mikemaierinc">Mike Maier</a> about the inadequacies of the Granada swap. A couple of months after that I was in Reno for <a href="http://www.hotaugustnights.net/">Hot August Nights</a> when I found myself being dragged into the "Big Boys Toys" exhibition hall, and slowly sucked towards the <a href="http://ssbrakes.com/">Stainless Steel Brake Co</a> stand. A few minutes after that one of the <a href="http://www.summitracing.com/">Summit Racing</a> guys was passing my credit card though an exceedingly hot swiping machine. It must have been hot, because the credit card was melting when I got it back!! A week or so after that some very heavy SSBC boxes showed up at the house. Around this time I also ordered the roller spring perches from <a href="http://www.opentrackerracingproducts.com/rollerperch/">Opentracker Racing</a> that we've all heard so much about.<br />
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After tearing off the Granada spindles (and all the related parts which I spent time restoring...sigh...) it was straight forward to install the SSBC spindles, dust shields and rotors. It's probably fair to say that the SSBC system is overkill for this car, but I just decided not to make any ecconomies with the brakes.<br />
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Getting the caliper brackets and calipers assembled and installed correctly was a bit more traumatic, but I eventually got there. Then I wiggled the car away from the garage wall and did the same to the driver side.<br />
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The SSBC brake system comes with a new master cylinder (MC), flexible lines, and all the hardware. It also includes some short sections of hard brake lines, because the setup requires several modifications to the stock lines. Plus you have to install a proportioning valve (PV) that wasn't needed with the original all-drum system.<br />
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One of the reasons for working on the brake system now (and the fuel system next) is that I wanted to get all the lines installed before I put the engine and transmission back in. So I ordered up a set of stock brake lines from <a href="http://npdlink.com/">NPD</a> and set about attaching them to the chassis. The rear brake lines went in just so, and I made finger-tight connections to the wheel cylinders. Nice. The central line at the transmission tunnel and firewall and the connections at the front discs were also pretty easy. I was able to utilize most of my shinny zinc plated hardware with the SSBC brackets.<br />
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I bolted up the MC and connected the brake pedals and the piston. You are supposed to bench bleed the MC before installing it in the car, but I didn't because I only bothered to read the instructions afterwards. At this stage I was a little bit more concerned about where to mount the PV and how to get the lines anywhere near to the MC, never mind connect flawlessly.<br />
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Of course there was no distribution block included with the SSBC kit, so I had to dig out the original and refurbish it. That's one more time that keeping EVERYTHING from the tear down has saved me.<br />
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I guess it also goes without saying that the brake lines that come in the SSBC kit have completely different connectors to the ones that come from NPD. And they're not quite the right shape, and anyway I've never had to make custom brake lines before, so why not now? Well the answer to that questions is probably "because it's a tedious PITA!" First I had to invest in a pipe bender, and then a flaring tool, and then in some extra brake lines from the local <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/one-stop-auto-parts-emeryville">parts store</a>, and then some more spare brakes lines...and...well when it was all done it looked like this:<br />
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Now to me it wasn't too bad for a first time, but I know for a fact that some of the flanges are not right, and that a lot of the bends look amateurish. For now though, it's a start.<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-24079524334111802862015-01-09T15:30:00.000-08:002015-01-10T14:09:01.593-08:00sounds great!New year, new plan: I just know 2015 will be the year the '68 runs again! I've got mixed feelings about the decline in the number of posts I've been writing about this project in the latter three years: of course it's mainly due to "other things" taking priority, but I also think that my posting style has evolved such that I can cover more progress in each installment. There, that sounds much better!<br />
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Even though I spent most of the Summer working on the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2014/09/and-now-for-something-completely.html">shed</a> and <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2014/09/and-now-for-more-of-same.html">deck</a> projects, I did find a few hours here and there to chip away at the car. One of the things I worked on was the audio system. When I got the car is was still equipped with the original am-only radio and the solitary center-dash peanut-sized speaker. Clearly this would not do.<br />
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After cutting the speaker holes, I covered both sides of the modified package tray in thin foam which I attached with the 3M yellow weatherstrip adhesive. After that I wrapped the package tray in the special material I will be using for the interior accent pieces. I'll be keeping the exact design a secret for the time being. Later I installed the revamped package tray and speakers in the car.<br />
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I hand re-painted the original radio bezel and test fitted it with the radio unit I bought from Custom Autosound. I've not heard the unit play yet, so I can't review it, but I will say that I was very disappointed with the company's customer service (both my emails remain unanswered) and with the lack of speaker wires included in the package.<br />
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Installation in the dash was pretty easy. I installed my custom speaker wires for the two rear speakers. I'll be installing custom control knobs for the radio in the future.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">I'm using a "hide away" antenna which I can either hide in the glovebox or at the edge of the dash pad. I also made the connections for my cell phone and MP3 player which are straightforward with this package. I made sure I left plenty of extra cable so I don't have to keep the phone in the glovebox while it's charging.</span></div>
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Getting the glovebox door aligned correctly was a bit of a chore. It's been almost four years since these parts were painted - they were actually done at the same time as the interior portion of the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2011/03/doing-rattle-can-shake.html">doors</a>. I'll be installing tweeters in the door panels or at the kick panels later.<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-2355267980285774262014-09-30T07:30:00.000-07:002014-09-30T07:30:02.595-07:00and now for more of the sameIf one huge construction project wasn't a good enough excuse for not working on the car, then how about a second? The upper level deck and stairs at the back of the house have been on the "must be replaced" list for five years I think, and this summer an opportunity arose to finally take the bull by the horns. Funny thing is, we were so eager to get on with the demolition, that I forgot to take a decent "before" photo. By the time I got the camera out, we had already removed half of the top platform. It took all of the first day just to demo the top platform and remove the stairs. The two 6"x6" posts are in good shape and will be staying. I'll also be re-using the stringers. Everything else will be going!<br />
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So far, so dry rot. This is where the project took a left turn. After we got the stairs out of the way, it was immediately apparent we had a dry rot problem in the siding. The trouble is, once you peel off a bit of rotten material, there always seems to be another piece underneath. About an hour later, thanks to a crowbar I picked up at one of the <a href="http://www.turlockswapmeet.com/">Turlock Swap Meets</a>, and there was a big heap of broken up, siding in the yard.<br />
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Add to that, several partially rotten wall studs, and I was starting to think I may have bitten off more than I could chew.<br />
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I was lucky in a way, because the lower door was installed relatively recently, and the laminated header was in good shape. I couldn't say the same about either of the corner wall studs, or several of those in the center, and they all had to be partially replaced and/or sistered. I ended up ripping off a lot of siding until I had decent material above and below.<br />
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So, finally back to working on the deck. After ripping out the mid-level platform, I started constructing the replacement. All the timber that is seen, and the entire upper level deck will be constructed from new pressure treated lumber, but I used some recycled material for the supporting structure at the mid-level platform. All the upward-facing edges were covered with tar paper to prevent dry rot and/or fungus damage. This time around a proper flashing was also fitted at the junction with the house.<br />
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The upper level deck is supported by the pre-existing 6"x6" posts and securely anchored to the house with a bunch of 6" lag bolts. I'm never happy with anything I build unless it's 1000% over engineered...<br />
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After completing the framing and supporting structure I re-installed the three stringers between the two platforms. Getting the stringers secure and absolutely square took a little time.</div>
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Next....a trip to buy a huge pile of lumber on the friday night before a three-day weekend. I picked up some redwood fence panels for the risers; the treads and deck boards will be cut from 2"x6" redwood lumber. The perimeter railings and handrails will be made out of 2"x4" redwood with standard 5/4" pickets.<br />
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Started by installing the risers and treads at the lower few stairs.<br />
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As the sun was going down on the sunday night I was still busy putting up some safety railings and handrails.<br />
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The angled sections of the railings at the sides on the stairs were a little bit more challenging but this was also a lot of fun.<br />
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The very last thing was the stringer covers - I installed two sections of 2"x12" PT lumber to improve the aesthetics. A few stray end-grains were also stained to match the pressure treated lumber. Have to say I'm very proud of this project....but now it's back to the '68. And about time too....<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-50261951249476882512014-09-16T22:20:00.000-07:002014-09-29T21:53:56.139-07:00and now for something completely different...I said that my last post had taken three years to accomplish, and since then....nothing! It's true. My shinny red 351W is sitting in exactly the same place it was the day the freeze plugs were installed. And here's why: I've been otherwise occupied with constructing my new workshop. It's at the back of the yard, so its not likely I'll ever be using it to work on the '68...but you never know.<br />
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A few months ahead of time we had a 12'x17' pad of crushed granite installed at the end of the yard. We laid down the foundation skids - five 16' lengths of 4"x4" pressure treated lumber - on top of the pad. Getting everything level took a bit of back and forth...<br />
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The floor joists were laid on top of the skids. We used 2"x6" doug fir for the floor joists and installed 3/4" plywood sheets on top to make the floor. This made a very sturdy platform for the shed. And that was it for the first weekend.<br />
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The front and rear walls were framed from 2"x 4" doug fir with OSB sheeting at the exterior. We built the walls on top the floor. I used a double top plate to ensure the structure is as robust as possible.<br />
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A lot of time was spent making sure everything was absolutely square, square, square.<br />
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The framing for the side walls was added after the front and rear walls were erected.<br />
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Installed the door and attached OSB sheeting around the opening.<br />
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Several weekends in and it was time to make the rafters. I used some pipe clamps to hold the 12' sections of 2"x4" doug fir together so that they could all be cut at the same time. I cut the notches with a mixture of the circular saw and my router, and cleaned up with a very sharp chisel.<br />
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Framed out and sheeted the triangular sections at the top of both side walls and hung the door.<br />
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Starting to look like a shed....after about four solid weekends of work!<br />
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This is where it starts to get interesting. I'll be honest, I've built tons of stuff out of lumber before...but I'd never rolled on a roof. Well I have now. I used standard yard-wide rolls of roofing material and a huge bucket of tar. The three-knot brush they sell at home depot is crap I'm sad to say, but I made the best of it.<br />
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A few weeks (or was it months?) after the roof was installed, I trimmed the perimeter and installed the flashings. All exposed nailheads at the flashings were sealed with silicon. It wont win any prizes for neatness, but hopefully it will at least be water tight. If it ever rains in California again!<br />
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After the roof was on, we spent a while blocking out the underside of the roof and the interior walls. These are the un-sexy parts of the project that you have to do make the structure secure.<br />
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The front wall got some good quality ship-lap siding. I would have liked to put this on all four sides, but the price was prohibitive.<br />
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Finally somewhere to stall all the bikes!! I'll be installing the windows and bringing electricity to the shed.....in the Spring.<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-84266232610444985832014-07-07T22:03:00.000-07:002014-07-07T22:03:00.058-07:00351W together againThe post that took three years to write! That's how long it's been since I purchased the 1969 Ford 351 Windsor that I decided to use for this project. After all it's been through, putting the motor back together was cake - at least it was with my <a href="http://bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> buddy Chuck guiding the way. He also brought the spring compressor, the big book of torque specs and much-o experience. I think it took us about three hours to assemble the engine. For a lot of this time I was too busy enjoying myself to take photos, but a few key moments were captured.<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-14700653707168522072014-06-27T22:48:00.000-07:002014-06-28T23:06:50.066-07:00waiting for the headsOMG It's been FOUR months! There have been a number of "down" periods on this project - and many more periods of intensive work - but that last few months have been somewhere in-between: short bursts of work punctuated by longer periods of...nothing. Oh well...<br />
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At the end of my <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2014/02/engine-rebuild-spec.html">last post</a> I found myself unexpectedly in need of a valve job and without a machine shop. There are ways to find these things I guess (like the interwebs), but, as mentioned countless times already in this blog, I like to start by asking the guys in <a href="http://bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> when I need something. What was unusual about this time around was that instead of finding a machine shop, I found a specialist head builder that was already in the club! In fact, the owner of Heads by Steve in San Ramon has decades of experience building heads, many have which have been run in NASCAR teams.<br />
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So I cut a deal with Steve to do the valve job, install 7/16 inch screw-in studs, and port match the heads to the gaskets and the intake manifold. When the heads came back a few weeks later they were just....well....immaculate.<br />
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And the ports were just so smooth, I could <i>see</i> the increase in power!<br />
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While the heads were away, I was marooned at home, surround by lots of boxes filled with shinny new engine parts. This spurred me on to crank through some of the half- and three-quarter-finished mini projects I'd previously abandoned. The first one was the tail lights and trunk wiring harness, which I couldn't face after the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-painful-wiring-harness.html">painful process</a> I endured below the dash. The tail light buckets were refurbed, and painted brake gray (outside) and brilliant white (inside) back in the Green Room days.<br />
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The concave tail lights were the feature that first attracted me to the 67/68 cars in the first place. I acquired a bunch of extra OEM trim pieces from my buddies up the Street at <a href="http://mostly-mustangs.com/">Mostly Mustangs</a> and picked out the best six pieces. I replaced the rubber pads, although attempting the glue the new pads to the trim pieces with weatherstrip adhesive was an abject failure. The studs and nuts were zinc plated way back when...<br />
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The tail light connectors were, of course, not included in the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-painful-wiring-harness.html">Pathetic Painless</a> wiring harness, so I adapted the originals. I did the same with the back up lights. And the fuel tank sender connector....and most of the stuff in the engine compartment too no doubt. The <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-painful-wiring-harness.html">Pitiful Painless</a> harness was actually too short to reach both tail lights, so I did a bunch of chopping and joining of wires that I would rather not have had to do. In the middle I ran out of the wire connectors supplied in the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-painful-wiring-harness.html">P...p...p...FUCKING AWFUL Painless</a> kit, and had to run to Home Depot. Grrrr!!<br />
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I also completed installing the Dynamat in the passenger compartment and taped the joints. Long-overdue!<br />
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Next time: Engine Rebuild. I mean it this time!!<br />
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<br />Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-34175049072040426852014-02-21T20:16:00.001-08:002014-06-27T20:41:27.014-07:00engine rebuild specThe 1969 351W I've been working on for this project has come a very long way since I first set eyes on it back in July 2011. For a start I had to transport it back to the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-best-of-green-room.html">Green Room</a>, where it sat for about nine months before I moved house. After that another seven months ticked by before I started the tear down on my birthday in 2012.<br />
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I took the stripped down block to Stirtz Machine in Oakland for magnaflux and integrity testing. The guys at SM are real old school.<br />
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On the weekends, they build their own racing cars.<br />
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The block came out all sparkly, and the cylinders only needed basic honing - very fortunately because the block has already had an extra 40 thou hacked out of it and anything more than a honing would have been terminal.<br />
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After the block passed, I went back to Stirtz and dropped off the heads, pistons and the crank shaft and left the oil pan and timing chain cover for clean up. I also had Carl balance the crank and grind the pistons to uniform mass. I'm pretty sure that I also asked the guys to "sort out" the heads, and although they did give them both the magnaflux treatment, I got the impression that nothing else was needed....so I took everything back home and <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2013/10/more-engine-uity.html">painted it all red</a>. (Except the crank. And pistons).<br />
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It's been a while since the odor of red paint dissipated from the garage, and while I've been making progress in other areas, the motor has been sitting on the stand, providing me with somewhere to stack miscellaneous small items. I've probably mentioned that I've been "narrowing down the spec." in half a dozen or more posts, but the truth is, I've found this process very difficult - which is why it's taken so long. I mean figuring out what cam to buy was tough, and that's just a case of looking at some data. I'm not building a track car, so I don't need anything too wild. (I actually settled on <a href="http://www.summitracing.com/parts/cca-cl35-416-3?seid=srese1&gclid=CNHH18O117wCFUOSfgod-RwAQg">this one</a> from Comp Cams).<br />
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Even it my days as a professional scientist I *hated* doing any kind of background research, and it was no different with learning about engine components. When it came down to figuring out spring pressures, retainer styles, guide rails, screw-in studs and yadda yadda....I was about ready to die from lack of interest. This might sound like heresy to most "car guys" but that's how it was. The minutiae of the mechanical aspects just don't do it for me when compared to rust removal or installing a wiring harness. If I could have waved a magic wand at the <a href="http://www.summitracing.com/">Summit</a> catalog and had the engine gods assemble my parts list I would have. So, after months of procrastination (and, let's be honest, stockpiling some $$$) I called on my <a href="http://www.bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> buddy Chuck and handed over my credit card.<br />
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We started off by inspecting the heads, and the first thing Chuck told was I needed a valve job and some replacement valves. So more machine work in other words. This might not sound too bad, but in the seven months since I collected my engine block, Stirtz Machine closed its doors for good after Carl retired. I called S&S in Hayward, but after informing me that "we're not taking no more heads right now" the bird at the other end hung up on me! Still, we put this little snag to one side and spent a couple of hours figuring out exactly what parts I needed to go with the cam. Or Chuck did really. I mostly just listened. I've always gained a much richer understanding of something from fifteen minutes with an expert than I ever did spending hours reading.<br />
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The spec. I finished up with was designed around the Comp Cams CCA-CL35-416-3 Cam and Lifters set (Hydraulic Flat Tappet). I bought compatible Comp Cams rocker arms, valve springs and retainers, valve locks and valve stem seals. I also bought new ARP main and head bolts. For the rest of the rebuild I picked up some Comp Cams push rods, a full set of Felpro gaskets, replacement main (std) and rod (-0.10) bearings, piston rings, and a Melling oil pump with a new driveshaft and a Comp Cams timing chain and gear set (Magnum Double Roller no less!). I also splurged on a pair of Hedman ceramic coated shorty street headers. The metallic gray coating goes really well with my aluminum intake manifold and the zinc-plated accent pieces I'll be installing in the engine bay. We decided not to order valves just yet pending consultation with the machine shop...assuming I can find one!<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-45372865168068697092014-01-21T10:52:00.000-08:002014-02-18T22:39:58.974-08:00increasing the compressionMy 351W has been back from the machine shop since July last year. In other words it's been back almost as long as it was away. And, although I'm getting very close to the rebuild, it hasn't happened yet. Funny thing is, when I look back on 2013 as a whole, it was actually a very productive time for this project: much better than 2012 in fact. Twelve months ago I had just about organized an adequate work space at the rear of my tiny garage.<br />
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Since then I've re-installed a whole bunch of parts, thrown away a lot more, and in the process generated quite a few empty boxes. I've also acquired my dream toolbox and filled it with a bunch of very nice tools. It really feels like a worthy substitute for the two Marshall 4x12 speaker cabinets I never quite managed to own. When I set up the "shop" I maximized the space by rolling the car up against the vehicle door and positioning my workbench right in front of the car. I even took off the front bumper and the supporting struts to make a extra six inches of work space. This area has served me well. It's had too. But it does not provide sufficient access to the engine compartment for me to install the wiring harness, motor mounts and so-on that I want to complete before I put the drive-train back.<br />
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Fortunately I've emptied out enough old boxes that I had enough room to incorporate the toolboxes into my storage area, after a few modifications. This created some extra space, and I was able to shove the work bench about four feet away from the car, leaving myself a nice little work space. The next job is to put the motor back together and then get that Tremec box out from under the bench!<br />
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To be cont'd....Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-71826534346786078592014-01-02T07:34:00.000-08:002014-01-02T07:34:00.622-08:00the Painful wiring harness I think I always knew that I would end up buying a completely new wiring harness for the '68. The fact that it sucks so much more $$$ into a pretty deep black hole meant that I considered making my own, and I was in fact encouraged to do so by a couple of the guys from <a href="http://vichubbard.com/">Vic Hubbard</a>....but in the end I decided to lay down for a new one. The choice came down to the overly-hyped Painless kit for $$$ or the OEM harness that NPD sells for about 30% more $$$. In the end I went with the advertising and splashed out on the Painless kit. I'm not sure this was the correct decision (some aspects of the installation are decidedly Painful!), but at least it was the (slightly) cheaper option.<br />
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I started by laying the new harness out on the floor next to the old one. It seemed to be similar, but it was also clear that I was going to have some work to do with my crimping tool and the box of connectors that came in the kit.<br />
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Laying the harness in the space behind the dash is straightforward, and the kit includes two correctly sized grommets which facilitate smooth passage of the engine compartment loom through the firewall.<br />
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The first thing to do is to secure the fuse box in the stock location. The shape of the fuse box is different to the original, so installation requires drilling two new holes in the firewall. Suitable sheet metal screws and included in the kit. When I was happy with the location of the fuse box, I dug out my replacement firewall pad and installed that too (you can see the pad in some of the later photos). The original pad was actually in pretty good shape, so I hung onto it and used it as a template - the reproduction pad requires a few adjustments - but it was nice to throw it away.<br />
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The kit comes with a decent instruction manual, and each individual wire is labeled and color coded which helps a lot with the basic layout...but it's difficult to make specific connections without something to connect to. So the wiring installation quickly expanded to include most of the under-dash components too. The first item was the windshield wiper motor operating arms, wiper motor and mounting bracket. The motor casing was restored at the same time as the heater motor and finished in Eastwood brake gray. The mounting bracket got the black Dupli-Color. Mounting hardware was zinc plated...about two years ago.<br />
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Next up: the heater, plenum chamber and defrost hoses. Installing the heater through the firewall (and the pad) is a simple operation with two people...and a triumph of desire over gravity on your own. As usual I took the latter route. I think my general method of doing stuff the hard way is driven by the feeling of accomplishment I get on completion.<br />
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The kit is designed to fit in the stock wiring location(s), which means the heater motor connection looks like the picture below (albeit without any sleeving on the wires). It's been so long since my car had any wiring installed that I'd forgotten how messy this looks. I certainly couldn't leave it like this. At this point the wiring harness was only loosely installed, so there was enough wiggle room for me to relocate the wire to a small hole I drilled in the firewall at the other side of the heater motor. I also used a cable clamp which I attached to the firewall with the lower heater attaching bolts. I also put some heat shirk sleeving on the wires. The only downside to this little operation was that I had to take the heater out before I could move the wire....so I got to do that tricky solo-heater-install twice.<br />
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After the heater was <strike>installed</strike> re-installed, I connected the control cables and carefully snaked them between the heater case and windshield wiper motor. I took a lot of photos of the under-dash area before and during the tear down, so it was easy to get the cables into the stock location.<br />
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The heater control panel was refinished by hand with some Sign Painters 1-shot lettering enamel that I got from Eastwood. The other bits were zinc plated. I also re-painted the letters on the control keys.<br />
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Next to go back was the ignition switch, headlight switch and the ashtray/cigarette lighter. I'll be doing some custom wiring in the glovebox later on for my cutout switch and USB connections, but I also want to have the stock look where the original lighter is functional.<br />
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Once all this stuff was <i>in situ</i>, I felt confident that I could tie down the precise location of the harness and start making some of the connections. I was really expecting my expensive wiring harness to be plug and play, but in fact it was far from it. For a start the steering column connector bares little semblance to the original, necessitating the use of an additional connector and the original plastic connectors. Which is fine if your stock parts are reusable.....and fortunately mine were. Same goes for the connectors for the door jamb dome light switches and the cigarette lighter connection.<br />
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Installing a wiring harness is always going to be a time consuming part of the project, and I really made sure I did take my time. Once all the important connections were made and I was completely happy with the location of the harness I completed the installation of the hanging brackets and cable clips. I also wrapped each section of the harness with scotch tape to add stability. This process involved a certain amount of disconnecting wiring and the removal of some items, although fortunately not the heater box. This was actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the project so far. I love re-assembly!<br />
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The wiring below the dash is not complete, but I've gone as far as I can for now. I still have the trunk area and of course the engine compartment to do. I'm currently looking at custom layouts for the latter.<br />
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At some point during the wiring install I got fed up of dropping tools through the openings in the floor pans. I taped over these once before, but this time I just re-installed the floor plugs. I know these holes are not for drainage, because they are not located at the low points in the floor pan...not to mention that they are also both too big and they are sealed up. I've heard a suggestion that they are alignment holes for use at some point in the body building process, which sounds more likely. Any other suggestions are welcome.<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-66481935401772757492013-12-24T16:46:00.001-08:002018-11-11T21:41:34.273-08:00valve covers and intake manifoldI've been slowly limping towards rebuilding my 351W, narrowing down the spec. and buying parts. One of the things I always intended to buy off the shelf was a nice shinny pair of valve covers. The ones that came with my engine were not in the best shape...and it's the one thing that everybody looks at! But I just could not find anything suitable. The nearest thing was a pair of stock reproductions that I could customize, but why go to that much effort on a repro part? So I went back to the original parts and dug out my trusty wire wheel. I knocked out a few small dings and then I sprayed on several coats of the same red paint I used on the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2013/10/more-engine-uity.html">rest of the motor</a>.<br />
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Now this is where it gets interesting. I wanted to paint the raised text a different color. I don't have the steadiest hand, so using a stencil was mandatory. I tried a couple of ways of doing this, starting with a crude attempt to make a template using a wax crayon and some of the "Sticky Mickey's Automotive Masking Film" I bought from Eastwood. It was not very successful. Next I tried some 1/16 inch wide masking tape to trace out the individual letters. This is a very time consuming process if you want to get it spot on. I bought some good quality tape which was easy to stretch and bend for the curved sections, but also easy to keep straight. And it was easy to cut with a semi-sharp razor blade too. The most difficult bits were the insides of the closed letters (o, d, p etc). I cut some of these from Mickey's not-all-that-sticky wide tape. When I was happy with the outline I added more tape and masked off everything else. Then I had to do it all again for the second cover.<br />
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It took a few seconds to spray on half a dozen coats of the Eastwood brake gray I've been using throughout the project. When the tape came off I feathered the edge of the gray with some 0000 steel wood and then I sprayed on several coats of clear coat. Two more parts completed!<br />
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There's been a few intake manifolds linked with this project over the years. There was the unit that came with the six cylinder engine for a start. I don't even have a picture of that one. There was the stock manifold from the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2011/01/engine-that-came-home-in-box.html">302</a>. That one came wrapped in clingfilm....and that is how I last saw it too. I never unwrapped it because I acquired an Edelbrock performer 289 aluminum manifold (with free duct tape) on the same day as the 302 motor. After I decided not to use the 302 for this project I passed it on to my friend Larry, and the aluminum manifold went too. All of this left me with a stock manifold for the 351W, which I didn't really want to use, so I started casting around for alternatives.<br />
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After mentioning my needs to several of my buddies in <a href="http://bayareamustangassociation.com/">BAMA</a> I ended up with this 4-barrel Edelbrock <a href="http://www.summitracing.com/parts/edl-2181/overview/">Performer 2181</a> from my friend Brian. Apparently the "dual-plane design and 180 degree firing order...boosts torque over a wide rpm range, from idle to 5,500 rpm. These manifolds also deliver improved throttle response over stock intakes." I wasn't as keen on the green paint however.<br />
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There were several options for getting rid of the ghastly green:<br />
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So I took option 4, and handed it over to my buddy Chuck. He took the manifold to his place of employment and ran it through their industrial-sized sand blasting cabinet. (After work, of course!) When it came back the manifold had also been treated to several layers of clear coat and had all the bores re-tapped. So better than new in other words. Not bad for just a case of PBR!<br />
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<br />Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-89134975184067976332013-10-30T04:30:00.000-07:002013-12-24T21:03:00.328-08:00trunk springs...againNow then, now then, safety first: taking the trunk hinge torsion springs in and out is a dangerous operation which has been known to result in the loss of fingers. I've <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2010/11/torsion-bars-tools-and-trunk-lid.html">written before</a> about how to do this safety, and I've given away the plans to a very <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yelQqKxbqxo/UEWTWa2PI8I/AAAAAAAADqo/D7rcWDtIxE8/s1600/20120315_mustang_741+%5B800x600%5D.JPG">useful tool</a> I made for the purpose. In fact, I thought I was done with this operation after my last house move. <br />
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But no. And this little story is a peach. So I got a bit carried away with the zinc plating and through in everything I could...including the trunk springs. What I didn't know when I did this (although I should have given my history in organometallic chemist!) was that hydrogen starvation in the plating process weakens the springs. Months after I moved, I went to open up the trunk and discovered both springs had snapped. Oh dear. I mentioned in my last post that I snaffled a bunch of parts from my friends at <a href="http://www.mostly-mustangs.com/">Mostly Mustangs</a>, and the trunk springs were the first thing I grabbed. This time though I just cleaned them up and painted them gray. I had to wait until I turned the car around before I could get the room to work on the trunk. After that the installation was easy. It should be...I've done it enough times now.<br />
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I took the gas tank back out and used the trunk access to get the deck lid perfectly aligned. This took rather a lot of rinse and repeat to get the lid spot on. When I was finally satisfied, I drilled some 1/8" dia. alignment holes through the hinges. Next time I take the lid off, putting it back right should be much easier.<br />
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I caulked the seal at the gas tank and installed all the bolts. I was careful not to use too much caulk after the <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2010/04/gas-tank.html">trauma</a> I had taking the tank out the first time. I also re-installed the filler neck and most of the flip-top gas cap (more on that later).<br />
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I wanted to install the rear bumper and license plate while I had access to the back of the bar, but I couldn't get the passenger side bumper support to fit around the rear valance. I'd actually forgotten that before I owned the 68 it had been taken some minor damage at the rear. This involved some re-working of the rear valance and a few other things, but I guess I never noticed that one of the bumper supports was also bent. When I compared the two brackets through, it was obvious. Not exactly the most difficult repair to make - I just put the bracket in the vice and leaned on it, but I was happy to do this <i>before</i> the final paint had been applied. I guess this is why you do a dry build!<br />
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While all this was going on, preparations for the enigne rebuild were still ticking over. All the rusty hardware got soaked in Marine Clean, worked over with the wire wheel, and zinc plated.<br />
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Papa Sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627368773110585242noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501616701607649768.post-12286325118756280712013-10-21T07:05:00.000-07:002013-11-03T20:34:04.077-08:00getting glassedIt feels like every post for the last six months has included some mention of how slow progress has been. This one's different. The engine coming back from the shop has really spurred me on to get the car running again. I mentioned a <a href="http://68redmustang.blogspot.com/2013/08/while-motor-was-away.html">while back</a> that I started installing sound/heat insulation at the firewall. It was always part of the plan to put this material pretty much everywhere, but the next place I worked on was the doors. I started at the driver side. Once the insulation was done I installed the door handles and the rest of the locking mechanism. I was surprised how easily this all went back.<br />
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So now I wanted to put the three side windows back in, starting with the quarter window. The various parts house make it easy to gather all the needed facsimile rubber seals and trim parts...except one: the seal around the glass at the quarter window. This is a shame, because mine needed replacing. You can buy the entire quarter window assembly, but I didn't fancy doing that just to get a $2 seal. My guess is that the reproduction unit is assembled using some type of modern adhesive/sealant which sets after the window pane is inserted into the frame...and therefore can't be sold as a discreet item. At times like this I usually call on my buddies at <a href="http://www.mostly-mustangs.com/">Mostly Mustangs</a> in Oakland. They can always source good used parts, and this time they came up with a pair of very nice windows from a recently totaled 67.<br />
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The guys actually let me pick the car over for for choice parts. I ended up with an "interior decor kit" which I plan to partially customize and a pair of trunk springs amongst other items.<br />
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Back in my garage I liberated the window seals and gave them a good cleaning up.<br />
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Assembly of the window is easy - no adhesive is necessary since the seal fits pretty tight inside the frame when it's all screwed together.<br />
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It took a bit of patience, but I got the quarter window back in without doing any damage and the window goes up and down when you turn the handle. Which it didn't before incidentally. Getting the window, winder mechanism and all the stops back in the door and all lined up is a bit tedious, but I managed it with help from a copy of the Ford Assembly Manual - this tome is very detailed and I've used it a lot already. I started off with a pdf version, but I eventually paid for a bound reprint, and it was really worth it. Sometimes you just can't beat paper!<br />
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Re-installing the vent window and main window was even more involved, but I got there. When I took the windows out (in May 2010!) I honestly thought I would never be able to put them back together. A good set of tools helped, but sometimes you just can't beat experience! <br />
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After that, I rolled the car outside the garage for the first time in eighteen months, turned it round, and rolled it back in. Then I (eventually) installed inner-door soundproofing and side windows at the passenger side. <br />
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