What did you do to your Maverick or Comet today

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  1. yellow75

    yellow75 MCCI Oregon State Rep Supporting Member

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    Reluctantly crawled under the car and dropped the pan on the tranny and removed the reverse manual valve body, transmission fluid and pan looked really clean with no bad smell or particles of metal or bands and was quite pleased. PaulS must have done a good job because it has certainly been put to the test.

    Letting it drain so I dont get all covered in tranny fluid but cut 4 -1/4" pieces of all thread to use as guides when installing new valve body that PaulS had in tranny when I had him rebuild it. It is suppose to be upgraded with some of his mods. Now just have to get the vacuum line to modulator ran. This is the last thing to do under car besides hanging the exhaust back.

    Getting too old to be crawling around on the floor but enjoy working on the car
     
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  2. 71gold

    71gold Frank Cooper Supporting Member

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    yep, I know what you mean...:whew:
     

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  3. RMiller

    RMiller My name is Rick

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    I wonder how he's doing, has anyone had contact with him? I know he had health issues, hope everything is good with him, he was a great resource for the board.
     
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    Got the rearend out for clean up and new third member install
     

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  5. Earl Branham

    Earl Branham Certified Old Fart

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    Nothing......I seem to have come down with some kind of crud that is going around up here. Coughing, runny nose, body aches and did I say cough? Can't get rid of this stuff, doc says she is stumped!
     
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    Installed the wiring/relays for H4 headlights, ordered the headlights yesyerday, so will be a while before I know if it was worth it or not. If anything it'll look way cool with the new headlights.
     
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    Same down here in Florida .. I think its ' CHEMTRAILS ' .. Been seeing them for years and years .. and NO ONE
    will tell us WHY they are still prevalent !!
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  8. Krazy Comet

    Krazy Comet Tom

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    Well the fit will hit the shan on this one...

    I wired up a TFI module to repl my erratic Street Fire ign(mounts are still in place)... Ignore the wire nuts it's still in evaluation stage, if this works out I'll make permanent connections, add loom, bead blast the heat sink and install a new module on it... After a quick test run tonight I'm not anticipating any issues...

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    Tested Tough!!!! You gotta love the OEM stuff for durability, I do.
     
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    there is a compression spring on the stock V8 throttle cable. my MSD Atomic EFI has return springs on it. between the three it was a little tight so I removed the compression spring from the cable...:drive:...:chirp:

    could someone post a pic of a V8 throttle cable for me? thanks
     
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    That's just it, OEM stuff is tested for a dozen years & 150,000 miles durability... Sure some of it had issues, mostly these modules failed due to high temps mounted on distributor, the remote mounting doesn't get much more than warm... I'm not going to trust this one that says Hong Kong but it'll be fine for a spare... I need to determine if I can run a black module, as they control dwell time via computer... One I have starts and idles fine but supposedly will burn up the coil if used without dwell control...
     
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    Let the transmission fluid drain for a couple days and finally got enough ambition to crawl under the car and install valve body, it was a fairly easy task and made extra effort to ensure that everything was lined up correctly even installed the kickdown lever and ran vacuum lines for modulator.

    Final thing to do under the car was install exhaust from headers back, well you would think that just replacing headers with same type and brand of headers everything would go back in the same------wrong the headers were a good deal longer like 2"s so had to do a little shortening of the pipe out of muffler glad my exhaust does not go over rearend. Wish I would have set them beside the old headers so I could see where the difference was.

    Drained the oil and put 9 quarts of fresh oil in and a new filter on making sure gasket on filter and filter housing was okay. Now it is on to installing and wiring in Taurus fan set up
     
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    took my Son n law for a :chirp:... it seemed to stay pretty straight with two of us in it...:drive:
     
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    Got a new roommate for the Maverick
    Micah


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