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What did you get done on your Stang today????

Finished up the engine, added all the fluids and fired her back up from the long winter slumber. Sure is nice when gas meets spark and there's fire!

No runs, leaks or errors...so far.
 
Shelby got a new turn signal switch and chased down my intermittent brake light issue to a bad switch. Nice to have a working horn and signal canceler again.
 
Started cutting spot welds that I did last winter on the toeboards in preparation for a new firewall. Sucks having to touch the same area twice. Finished welding the lower cowl patches in (enough that their solid) still got to do some weld finishing on them. Then removed in the whole lower cowl.
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Today I finally admitted to myself that retailers cannot ship a Gerstenslager fender UPS and expect it to get here straight.

After 3 in a row coming in different, with varying degrees of damage I give up. The packaging engineer should be slapped for how they box these things GET SOME EXPANSION FOAM PEOPLE!
:gs

I am now again needing a good drivers side fender for a 65 near Indy, if you know of one.
 
Huge progress, I replaced the phillips screws that hold on the center caps with pan-head hex-key screws. During the 5 minute ride home from Lowe's, I apparently wasted much breath explaining to SWMBO why this makes a difference.
 
Ran the stainless brake line from the proportioning valve to the rear axle. Think I'm finally done bending and flaring stainless thank god! Now I need to reassemble fill and bleed (and pray for no leaks). Spent another hour staring at the car trying to figure out my next move. Building a restomod with out everything planned out ahead can be very stressful. Having trouble deciding how to route some wires and lines. I think I need to focus on the big things needed to get the car ready for final paint and go back and address the smaller details later on. After 20 years this project needs to move forward.....
 
Rear quarters are off. MORE RUST. ordered the inner and outer wheelhouses and the trunk drop offs, and also a new radiator support since mine was crunched at some point in it's previous life. I swear, by the time this is done there won't be much original metal left. I would have been better off starting with a different project car, but this one is sentimental to me since my dad got it as a father/son project back in the early 70's (it was a basket case even back then), so the car is with me for life...

I was getting discouraged with all the work, but I can see a dim light at the end of the tunnel, unless it's the train coming...
 

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"SAC69" said:
Huge progress, I replaced the phillips screws that hold on the center caps with pan-head hex-key screws. During the 5 minute ride home from Lowe's, I apparently wasted much breath explaining to SWMBO why this makes a difference.
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That is funny
 
"SAC69" said:
Huge progress, I replaced the phillips screws that hold on the center caps with pan-head hex-key screws. During the 5 minute ride home from Lowe's, I apparently wasted much breath explaining to SWMBO why this makes a difference.
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ha! mine quit asking a few years ago, so i don't have to explain anything anymore....

i actually got mine inside the shop yesterday for the first time in almost 18 months. sitting covered up with a tarp for 18 mo. was really hard on the old girl. lots of paint peeling off of that crappy paint job that was on there & the master cyl is completely dry. guess i'm gonna get it moved around today into a spot & start the brake swap....
 
see, its indoors! actually rearranged the shop today & moved everything around to get into another spot with more room to work..

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Been trying on front steering setups like a women trying on dresses. Put it on and say "I don't like that" and move on to the next. It's like nothing fits or makes it curve the right way.
 
"67 evil eleanor" said:
Been trying on front steering setups like a women trying on dresses. Put it on and say "I don't like that" and move on to the next. It's like nothing fits or makes it curve the right way.
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Does it make your butt look big too? :shrug :roll :wtf :hs
 
If the tires were boobies, they keep pointing the wrong way. It just ain't right.
 
Dropped it off at the tranny shop to have them check it out. It has been slipping between 2nd and 3rd since we got it, and I want it checked before we start using it much this summer.
 
I discovered that my engine builder had installed a 160 degree thermostat in the engine during assembly. After some research, I didn't find a single person on any forum that thought running one of these was a good idea. Got out of work and exchanged it for a 180, warmed her up watching the gauge. When the stat opened up the temp dropped to 160 for a bit then returned to 180 and stayed there the whole ride. I'm running out of things to do on this thing :shrug.
 
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