BobE wrote:

I purchased a repair plate for that purpose many years ago.  It is not welded in, and used the existing screws to hold it in place. It has held up for about the past 20 years.  Suggest checking with the supply houses to see if it is still available.

Thanks Bob - I will check it out.

moon4964 wrote:

The speedometer on my restored 1964 Falcon rattled as though the new cable needed to be dry-lubed. Cable lube administered. The rattle became intermittent but did not disappear. Now the indicator is stuck at 40mph, and the rattle is gone. This appears to be a problem with the mechanism behind the speedometer and not the cable.  I would like to hear from any member who has had a similar problem. I would like to replace the mechanism and not the entire instrument cluster.

You might have better response if you open up a new topic at the top of the page. I would offer a suggestion, but I've not worked on a 64 Falcon speedometer.

I decided to replace the 42 year old, red, heater hoses with proper black ones. Had to remove the center console to get at the hose connections. It was then, I noticed the green drip of anti freeze at the lower corner of the heater box. :-(  Pulled out the heater assembly and yes, there is a tiny leak near the upper nipple. I also noticed that my late brother in law hadn't rebuilt the heater assembly.

There was the remains of 60 year old foam and seals that had disintegrated besides the leaky heater core. Got the parts ordered, now just waiting on them to arrive. Once I get the heater back together (with the proper number on clips - 5 were barely enough) and the new hoses installed, I can go back to my original project of replacing the air cleaner assembly, and I can ops check the snorkel heat valve that I adjusted.
One good thing came of it. I found a ground wire on the windshield wiper motor that was only hanging on by two or three strands of wire.

Yeah, a lot of small things showing attention to detail. Chrome carriage bolts on the export brace and Monte Carlo  bar and the fenders install - no more hood strikes - acorn nuts on the shock mount brackets. Battery relocation and no exposed wiring in the engine compartment - a lot of work and planning went into this car. Nice job. I do have a question about the heater hose routing, or lack of. No hose from the top of the intake, and the other hose routes down behind the alternator?

6sally6 wrote:

Welp Ron 68 (I will withhold all my ugly remarks about 'rusting-away in PNW'...or the old wait for the three months of dry/nice weather before driving... or remarks about how "rich-running gas-powered-vehicles" are destroying my planet and you should buy a battery car for humanity....or will you REALLY be driving this Mustang in cold/damp PNW weather..I won't say any of that)
Ya know...many Mustangs and SBF came with open element air cleaners and the flapper-damper-hickey-dodger wasn't an issue soooo ya could just switch to that and let the automatic choke and warm air under the carb base handle the situation.
Like MS.. I usually just wired the damper door open and even flipped the top of the air cleaner so I could hear the 4 barrel "moan" as it opened at full throttle.
Soooo the short answer is.....(This ain't a short answer) ..Beats ME.. I always lived in the sunny South!
I AM still a big fan of manual chokes which would solve a LOT of your problems with the exception of one thing.....
I can't remember to close it off once the engine is warm !!!
Soooo sorry Ron 68...there is no answer to this question !!!
6sally6

Yes, Mike, I do in fact drive my Mustang sometimes during our cold and wet and dank (a lie we spin to keep the sunny state immigrants out) winters. We actually have a Veteran's Day Parade I participate in, and the weather up here in November is usually cold and damp.
I am just trying to install the correct air cleaner on the car my late brother in law tried hard to keep stock when he did his restoration on it. Once I do the adjustment on the flapper (valve plate) and I get the 40 year old red (should be black) heater hoses replaced, I will do a full ops check of the system and give you a report.
 

MS wrote:

Didn’t the early ones just have a thermostatic spring in them? As the spring heated up, it got longer, allowing the door to open or close, whichever blocked off the hot air.
Disclaimer: I have only had one car ever with an intact air cleaner snorkel and never gave it much thought. They usually wound up in the trash can in the name of higher performance hot rodding.

The article I found just calls it a thermal actuator - maybe a spring, maybe a wax pellet type, I don't know. And maybe it is PFM  too. Anyway, it works when heated up. I will pull it and clean it up as I got paint all over it. I will then do some more ops checks and adjustments to close up the gap when in the cold position.
 

(Thanks MS - just gonna throw this out there for the brain trust)
I am installing the correct style air cleaner on my 65 convertible 289. I have the tube that bolts to the exhaust manifold to supply heated air to the air cleaner via the snorkel. The snorkel has a heat activated flapper that closes when it's actuating mechanism gets hot enough. The flapper on my snorkel is currently adjusted to the half open position, allowing a mixture of hot and cool air. I have a 68 shop manual that shows the flapper being open fully, blocking off any cool or ambient air, but it also had a vacuum assist which my 65 doesn't have. Do any of you have any experience rigging this flapper door? It also currently has a choke stove installed. Am I in error having both systems installed?

RCodePaul wrote:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-art-living-free/202106/how-social-media-exploits-our-loneliness


  

 Whoa - enough of the social media bashing, eh? Some of us use it to connect with others in our  Mustang hobby who don't live in our general area, but we all share the same interests. Social media give us a much wider audience to ask or answer questions about our cars - just like this internet forum here. It isn't all a bad thing. Yes, I do have a lot of local friends who own Mustangs and we can pool our experiences and knowledge about the cars, but if it hadn't been for the internet (social media) I never would have found MustangSteve and this site here that I have participated in for over 21 years. JMHO. (and yes, an occasional puppy or kitten video won't disturb my world )
 

MS wrote:

ACTUALLY…
Your picture is of a combination valve that contains a proportioning valve as well as a differential pressure valve.
The offset of the rear lines IN and OUT tells you it is a disc brake proportioning valve. If the IN and OUT were straight across, it would be for drum brakes and then would only be a differential pressure valve.

To recenter it, you need to make the end that has the most pressure spring a leak. Just open a bleed screw on that end, usually a front caliper. Then go in there snd STOMP on the brake pedal a few times. That will usually move the center spool to the opposite sode or back to center.

Thanks for the ACTUALLY MS.
 

Steve69 wrote:

rpm wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

Doubtful you'll have fun driving a Kia, but I'm sure the bash itself will be fun!
 

 
A Kia in Bash nomenclature is any car other than a classic Mustang.

  Did they have copiers back in the day?  I thought they were called duplicating machines...LOL  
 

It was called a mimeograph - and we used to get a high off of smelling the ink used and the "carbon copy". (See "Animal House" where the guys dumpster dive for that to get the test answers.
 

To an extent, I agree that social media has it's faults, but I disagree with the decision to totally remove it from one's life. I do Facebook. I don't do any of the other stuff. I use Facebook to connect with many friends from high school and the Mustang club I am president of. We used Facebook to plan and put on a really great high school reunion. I get a lot of face to face interaction via all the  Mustang club activities. I also use it to view several early model Mustang pages, as I enjoy reading and offering input to people's postings and questions about their cars. I also use it to connect to a number of old retired Navy web pages and share pictures and stories of my time during the Vietnam war. It actually is a great communication tool - if you use it as such. I have a daughter and her husband who own a winery and I like to share postings by her that benefit their winery. It is what you make of it. It can be a great tool. It can also be a great evil if all you do is dwell on the negative aspects. Like everything in life - you get out of it what you put into it.

Can you clean that off and put a couple of psi on the radiator so see if that is in fact the leak location? That is a bummer for sure. Hope you can get a quick fix.