I can't speak for anyone else, but I tried doing it myself with advice from others and failed miserably. If anyone here has a better, faster, or cheaper way and are willing to share that experience with us we all benefit. Do it yourself phosphating is hazardous and messy. To me there was value in not having to deal with that aspect, and I wanted it done correctly. I am a firm believer in referrals from other satisfied customers as a yardstick for a product or service.
Posts by round2K_old
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The folks at Cobra Automotive recommend it. I was shopping for a new clutch before I decided to have my original rebuilt and that was their clutch of choice for restorations if NOS wasn't available.
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Silver Bullet - it looks like you bought a nice car at a very fair price. You're going to get a kick out of that first late model Mustang that pulls up next to you at a stop light and looks admiringly at the real deal....
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Beagle has offered you two good suggestions, but before you do anything that would require disassembly I would recommend that you check the float levels and adjust if necessary.
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Super clean and cool - love it.
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If you are going to go to the trouble of removing them I would recommend you take the extra step and have them replated with zinc phosphate. Steve Gregori will do the hinges and the hood latch parts for about $90.
By the time you get done cleaning up the grease and beadblasting the parts to prep for paint the plating investment doesn't seem so significant.
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There are generally two problems, one is the distance between the shock towers and the other is the quality of the monte bars. Most of the bars are made in China now and the bolt holes on the bars don't fit well, so you may have to drill some of them to get the bar to fit. If you need to spread the shock towers you can start by using a floor jack at the center of the cross member near the pan. If you can't get any incremental gain in the width with the floor jack then it's a bit more challenging. Find someone who knows how to use a porta power or you'll end up damaging your engine compartment.
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That VMF thread is a real eye opener.
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It's in the NPD catalog now. Don't know if they've shipped them yet, but you can see the post above for price.
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Threaded freeze plugs and oil galleys???? Que pasa? That's no ordinary block prep. It takes a good size tap to thread those freeze plugs.
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Kudos to ACC for displaying a postive attitude. Hopefully they can solve the problem. If they do you can bet they'll be miles ahead of their competitors.
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The repro's work just fine for me. Buying a NOS air cleaner (at silly prices) seems a little like buying NOS oil filters; you can, but why?
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Found him with Google. Thanks.
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That article is pretty old. I tried to reach him based on the email address and also through the yellow pages. No luck.
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Regarding the conversion of the early radios:
Quote from morelosinternal modification on an AM radio to make it tune FM frequencies isn't technically hard.
Technically hard, no. Practically hard, as in finding someone who actually does it well?? That's the challenge. I'd like to find someone who could do what the radio man in Texas was doing. I'm not trying to replicate the am/fm face, just get some FM sound without having an aftermarket radio in the car. The early Ford radios are available in abundance and should make good donors for the original look with today's sound.
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With the cost of those old radios having gone through the roof I was considering taking one the original AM radios that are in abundance and seeing about internal modification. Does anyone know anything about this fellow that did FM conversions?
http://www.mustangcountry.com/articles-musta…ioman/home.html
