I have had good luck with lock tight, just put some on the ball of the socket and move mirror around a few times, maybe add it on ball again then wipe of excess, set your mirror and seems to put just enough resistance that mirror stays put, and you can still move it around a little if need be. worked for the last 5 years on the old pony.

HTandB wrote:

6sally6 wrote:

Welcome to the best forum out there......6sally6

lol. I believe the term is man-u-matic... I also need a quart of blinker fluid.

WELL remember you might be rebuilding an automatic that had clutches in them, just saying.

Although its been a few years, the pony has brought me a few awards, but I must say my favorite award was this one, not quite as long as Dans, but I think it is what MS intention of the bash were all about, Do hope to get to another one someday and yes it will be in the Pony

After 70,000 miles and 14 years on the road with the open window air conditioners on, the vinyl headliner is starting to show some ware and tear, wondering if anyone has installed and had success with three piece solid ones from Mustang  to Fear, it would go into a 66 coupe, really don't want to pull windows out to install a new vinyl one.

Seems that life got in the way for a while, So I pulled the motor out and tore it down, 4 lifters wiped out and about 4 more on the way, same with cam lobes. Took it back to machine shop, bearings all had slight signs of floating debris in them, oil pump was trashed. looks like crank can be saved. The real kicker is the instructions that the cam company gave us was a little out of date, so the oil they recommend has since been reformulated and did not contain any zinc additives, so another one of life lessons. I told them i'm in no hurry to get motor back so for now its on the back burner. Did put another 900 miles on the 66 pony last week, That flat tappet 298 now has 72,000 miles on it and still running strong.I did that one in 2009 

This was a bare bones stock rebuild. 302 two barrel carb, new pistons , cylinders were bored 30 over, heads got the hardened seats valve springs all were replaced, crank polished and reused used the fancy engine assembly  lube was used on everything , added the breakin additive, checked and rechecked every thing at least three times. Looks like the lifters where made of tin instead of steel, All I hear now is you have to go to roller lifters, I know the oils have all change and its harder to find,but its still out there, Got over 75,000 on my 66 pony with flat tappet motor, I can't believe with all the millions of old cars that someone hasn't stepped up to manufacture cam and flat tappet lifters to stand up in these old cars..Maybe I should get out of woodworking and go into cam and lifter production, I think there might be a good future in that. Sorry for the rant, helps take the sting out .

I would think to  find park position you wouldn't be able to turn output shaft, so if your lever is toward the front and output shaft doesn't turn thats park and if toward the back and output shaft doesn't turn thats park position hope that helps

Update on Distributor, found a remanufactured one with no core charge, it was done by the Cardone company, same as the new one I purchased but didn't work out. This one is actually an old Autolite one, C8TF 12127. The Pertronix fits right in, and it has the cast iron gear. They were out of stock almost every where I was looking except for Walmart, go figure. Well one more thing off the list, should be ready to fire it up and break it in, in the next couple of weeks.

Cardone must use metric screws to hold points, so the little nib on Pertronix unit has to be file to fit hole, that wasn't hard to do, but then the magnetic collar that slips over the dist. cam is to big or the cam is to small, that's when i called the tech line and was told the kit wouldn't work on the aftermarket dist.

Just heard back from the Pertronix people, there gear is hardened steel , 45 Rockwell rating, will be calling cam company, will keep you al posted.

I have been looking at the pertronix dist. all ready set up and ready to go, yes this is a non roller engine, I am waiting for an answer to see if the pretonix dist. has the cast iron gear, haven't heard back from Summit yet. I did look into the dist. that Rock Auto sells, wasn't thrilled with the reviews, seems like hit and miss, especially if you were to try and add the pertronix module to them. I have run pertronix for the last 14 years in my 66 and had no issues with its, so I guess if it aint broken don't fix it. Bob I will send you an Email, maybe this might be the way to go, just use an old one, put a new gear in it and install a pertronix module in. Thanks for all the input. Jim B 

Ron68 wrote:

I believe the pump is a Saginaw pump that I am running with my Borgeson mod.

 

Hey Ron I have same set up as your picture in the 66, just wondering if you ever had one of the long mounting bolts break off. Happened twice to me, once about two years after install, then maybe three years later. They both broke of right at the block. Pretty sure the second one I put in was grade 5.