RTM wrote:

Got the rear axle bolted in and rechecked for the back spacing I’ll need for the 17x11 rim.  Looks like 6.5 BS will be a perfect fit.   I may go with 6.75 BS just to give myself some extra room and if needed I could use a 1/4 spacer. 

The fronts look like 4.5 will be good but the tire does hit the inner frame at full turn.  It does so with either 4 or 4.5 BS.  The rims I want don’t come with more than 3.5 for a 17x7.  If I go to 17x8 then I can get the 4.5.  I’ll look at this a few more times before I commit to a size. Just want to make sure I order right the first time.

 
Have you moved the axle thru its travel limits to see if it clears the wheel opening lips?

Nos681 wrote:

Daze wrote:

Rudi wrote:

Nice job on the clevises, who made them, what grade of steel?
Much more impressive than the cast/forged items!

I updated my website with all that info
 

Daze, you deserve an honorable mention as well.

I did read your initial write up years ago…did not see the updated clevis.

I used the same seller for the clevis, just checked your website.

 
So from whom did you get the clevis?

Toploader wrote:

RPM, aka Bearing Bob wrote:

I made my own engine crossmember (with a jack pad) to allow the motor to suit lower. I had seen the Shelby crossmember but didn't like its look. This was back before Zray was selling his, and I built mine from 1½ X .180 wall chromo tube for about a third of Zrays price. While I have used the jack pad it's more of a pita to drive the car on a couple of 2x6s to get it high enough to slide the floor jack in from the front. I usually jack from the front torque boxes.i also tied the crossmember into the LCA mounting bolt, which might help keep things in place.

I really look forward to the jack pad probably the most. So many times I've just wanted to lift the front quickly to do something.

 
With your 65 that sits higher, and no front spoiler, you shouldn't have any problems getting the jack under there.

I made my own engine crossmember (with a jack pad) to allow the motor to suit lower. I had seen the Shelby crossmember but didn't like its look. This was back before Zray was selling his, and I built mine from 1½ X .180 wall chromo tube for about a third of Zrays price. While I have used the jack pad it's more of a pita to drive the car on a couple of 2x6s to get it high enough to slide the floor jack in from the front. I usually jack from the front torque boxes.i also tied the crossmember into the LCA mounting bolt, which might help keep things in place.

Quicksilver wrote:

I just sold a 351 (1969) stock block, pistons, rods, crank, cam, and timeing chain & Cover for $400 droped to  $200.00 just to get it out of the garage. 6 months on CL. Now 2 other people have called about it. Got a complete 301 and a radical 289 left.

 
Now you tell me...

I bought these back when they were $100 less from a recommendation of a fellow 69 owner. My main concern was I didn't want to see the individual LEDs thru the lens. These put out a nice solid red without seeing a bunch of red dots. I also installed front turn signal LEDs of unknown make, as they were given to me. They too put out a lot of light.

https://www.cjponyparts.com/non-sequential-led-taillight-kit-ultra-bright-mustang-1969/p/TLLED58/?lac_guid=a4cbaab7-fffa-eb11-835d-0050568b5164

Nos681 wrote:

What did you find on choke?

 
An air cleaner.

Ya, I was looking there  the other day and noticed a couple of guys might not know it exists.

BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

John Ha wrote:

BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

I am thinking mine is stuck shut ...when I  get time  I  am gonna check it....might be why it is running crappy like its bogged down.
 

If it's stuck shut it'll be running really rich.  You'd smell that in the exhaust and see the black smoke. 

I'd guess you have a vacuum leak somewhere. 

It is running rich...I been working a lot lately and aint had a chance to look at it it much.
I wish I had another carb I could stick on it.
 

 
It would be easier and take less time to remove the air cleaner and look at the choke to see if it's your issue.

BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

rear is apart at my buddys

 
I click on a prostate cancer thread, see this... and think wow, that's a good buddy.

MS wrote:

That, plus it happens in my back yard

 
I thought the paper said it was happening in space.

Bullet Bob wrote:

RPM, aka Bearing Bob wrote:

Bullet Bob wrote:

Cool, Ed.  Yeah, I remember Tom.  Hope you guys can make it.  My concern is that we might not be able to REALLY see that museum in only eight hours.  I could probably spend that long in the Model T and Model A engine sections.

 
Oh well, nothing ventured nothing gained.

Zat mean you'll be needin' the room at chez Bullet?

 
Chez Bullet?  Hopefully. Wow, in impressed you know what chez means. But do you know how to pronounce it?

Real nice work.