I’ve got the Carburetor finished, and it’s running great! As it turns out, the inlet valves were almost completely gummed up, which would probably be why the car was stalling out so badly, and the gaskets were pretty much falling apart. (10 years of storage will do that!)
I got an electric choke to replace the [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
Anyone want to buy a 1967 pink mustang?
Anyone looking for a 1967 Pink mustang restoration project? I found this in a Junkyard last week, but it’s probably more of a project than I’d like to take on! Any brave souls (with an up to date tetnus shot). Looking to build their pink dream car?
***UPDATE*** I don’t know the exact address, [...]
Restoring the Air Cleaner
I have to admit, the air cleaner on my car was in rough shape. The paint had been re-sprayed once, and the paint job was poor at best. The paint was chipping away, exposing the original paint, and there was some severe overspray on both the box as well as the snorkel.
Strip it Baby!
The first [...]
Carburetor Rebuilt!
It’s finished! I blogged earlier about my Autolite/Motorcraft 2100 carburetor with the malfunctioning choke. The carburetor is done, and as it turned out, it was a multi-part problem. The first issue was the vacumn pump wasn’t functioning properly, and needed some serious help!
The next issue was that the spring coil for the choke was rusted [...]
1965 Mustang Data Plate Woes
I took a trip up to CJ Pony Parts about 3 weeks ago to gather parts, paint, etc. for the mustang. Al told, I spent a little over $1,000 on the order, and included in that was a $35 restamped data door plate to replace the original. My original door plate had been sprayed over, [...]