Progress continues but, typically only in the morning to avoid the sweat box heat of the day.
Saturday installed the front brake hoses I ordered from Rockauto and made one brake line from the distro block to the driver side brakes.  BTW, I hate making brake lines.  Today, made the brake line from the block to the passenger side front brakes, finished the borgesen box install, installed the power brake booster, and new AOD trans lines.........too hot and humid to continue....so after the paramedics finish administering a couple IV's of D-5-W....i called it a day.  The focus tomorrow is on the MC install and making the remaining brake lines...

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Cool morning temps arrived this morning along with my latest box of parts from Rockauto.  Installed upper ball joints, lower control arms and shocks.  Refreshing to see, "Made in the USA" on those Moog boxes.  The to do list keeps on shrinking.  Now waiting in the parts cart is an order from CJ's for cooling system parts.....rad, hoses, shroud, blah, blah, blah stuff....... After that, I'll focus on replacing the third member and finishing the rear brake update.  Not sure why I post this crap here for no other reason than to keep a progress journal that serves to motivate me to continue....

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The pair of  2005 Mustang seats I picked up last month finally got the attention they deserve today.  Now that I have my new shop set up to include an air conditioned work area, it made for a much more pleasant day of wrenching.   Started with the passenger side by removing the 05 seat tracks.  As for installing the 66 tracks, that simply consisted of drilling two new holes and using some spacers and grade 8 bolts to raise the seat to just the right level.  Was able to source the hardware needed at Lowe's which made the job easy although, I did buy the last of the spacers from my neighborhood Lowes so I guess I'll take a trip cross town to another store and check their inventory.  Anywho, the passenger seat went in like butter and looks good in the FB......it's seatmate with join it tomorrow at which time  I can cross another item off the 'get er done" list.  The next CJpony order is enroute so I'll tackle the cooling system project next.

Pictures would be great now wouldn't they???  Yeah if only I were able to upload  a few on the fyi how do you load pics forum......maybe later....

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The fastback had to wait until this past weekend for attention. Unfortunately, my father in law succumbed to his illness resulting in another road trip to Oklahoma for his funeral. I miss him terribly and learned a great deal from him these past 37 years..........he at least didn't suffer any pain so, I guess there's some comfort in that.

Now that I'm home, I was able to install a pair of 4.5 leaf mid-eye rear springs.  That job went very well and fortunately I didn't have any issues with the front eye bolt being joined in rusted bliss to the inner eye  bushing. With that job complete I could finally install the rear shocks.......never done this on a FB and although the procedure is a tad different than a coupe, one more "to do" item is crossed off the list.  Plumbing the rear brake line hose and installing a new fuel hose from the fuel line to the sending unit means I'll be finished on the south end of the FB.   
Starting some fab work next on the trans shifter rod/linkage which won't be a big deal.  Although I planned to have the heater box rebuilt, I'll tackle that next week and focus on the rest of the instrument panel.  

Like some other forum dudes, I've been searching for a set of aftermarket wheels......what a pain that can be.  However, I visited a local wheel shop today and the owner is a top notch guy.  Sourced the wheels I want and his prices are nearly identical to what Summit has listed.  Nice to also be able to support the local guys too. 

Perhaps I'll post more later as progress continues...........I will say it's really nice to now be working in temps ranging from 50-60 degrees vs the Alabama sweat box I worked in this summer............
TTFN

Testing the picture posting technique on me ole laptop............shazaam...........it works!..

Last edited by josh-kebob (11/05/2019 1:17 PM)

Well fella's......it's Saturday and the wife is outta town........know what that means??  That's right, I'm watching all the college football i want and rebuilding the heater box on the living room floor!!  So, that job is finished but more await. I did manage to install the fuel hose connecting the sending unit to the fuel line....Perhaps I'll bleed brakes tomorrow....

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Actually, small powder coated parts in ye ole oven would work!!  Too bad I don't anything that needs powder coating......
 

Josh
Did your Kodak Instamatic run out film.
Pictures please
Cman
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Turkey day is over so, this turkey got back to work.  I spent two days wrestling a grizzly bear....sort of.  Actually wrestled with two fenders and a hood trying to get everything lined up.  Multiple "rinse and repeat" cycles before finally getting everything lined up "good enough".  After two days spent on that nonsense, sparing with a grizzly seemed much more appealing and working by yourself sure can suck sometimes.  Moving on, while cat napping under the car, I discovered that the previous owner for some reason cut off the tank to engine compartment fuel line leaving it about 4' short........hello CJpony parts. That part arrived today and now the FB has a new tank and new line to the engine compartment.  Up next is the eddy intake, eddy carb, eddy fuel lines and eddy fuel pump.  All those new eddy parts sure look sweet.  Hope to have all those installed starting Monday.....heading to Atlanta tomorrow to see our daughter thus the delay and time for me to heal. However, once those parts are in, the fuel system will be complete.  I may treat myself with a trip to Summit while I'm in Atlanta.........progress continues....

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Once the temps rise, I'll finish installing the fuel delivery system depicted in the previous post....
Only able to post pics from my phone but at least I got one new pic posted....

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Ok, that's two, count them, two successful attempts at posting pics from my laptop........unless the forum goes into Linda Blair mode again, I think I'll now be able to upload pics with my progress updates.......woot woot.......[/url]

YAY Josh Good job on the photos

Cman