What did you do to your Maverick or Comet today

the story of my life

 

Drilled spot welds. God I hate that. Had to be 110 today.

 

You know honestly i am a little dissapointed(not really) with how little extra work I had to do to get mine in.
When I was searching for all the information to put one in usually all I found was that it requires tunnel modifications and that discouraged most people from doing it....There are litterally almost no pictures of a tremec in a maverick.

So fully expecting to have to cut the whole transmission tunnel off and having to build one from scratch when I started putting the transmission in place to see how much I needed to cut to mock everything up.
I was really really surprised to see it was so easy. Heck I know some of the guys that installed T5's had to do the same ammount of work that I have had to do to put it in.


So in a year after you buy it and when you are ready to put it in give me a holler and I will help you however I can.

 

No doubt, less of a worry though in my cavalier during the 60 mile round trip

 

I thought out of high school the girls wouldn't run 30 miles over the speed limit and stop right when they get somewhere but here on campus it's worse.

I know they get mad though when they get behind the slow driving maverick

 

Finished with the N third member, replaced the pinion seal and torqued down a new crush washer.......................draw set at 15 inch pounds, and replace the alxe bearings.............now to put it back together.
Mike form Mike's Tranmission called to let me know the trans/scatter shield/SFI flex plate/loosened up 5k stall converter/5 year SFI trans bellhousing..................now comes the road trip.............to Lancaster.

 

Filled my car full of tools and boxes getting ready for the move. Other than that she wasn't touched, fired up, or moved a hair.

 

Headlight relays and Halogen bulbs. Its no wonder the bulbs don't get full voltage with stock wiring. Expected the wires to be bigger.

 

filled out all the paperwork for hagerty _crosses fingers_

 

Cleaned, scraped, vac., cleaned and rust proofed front floor pans. Weldded in 3 small holes in the front floor board. Drilled 3 holes for the buckets seats. Got the old, rusted tracks off the seats and put the new ones on. Test fit the bucket seats.......and they work. Ran wires for the rear speakers, kick panel speakers.
Painted the rest of the plastic parts. Man I'm tired. time for a BEER or two.

Tomorrow....lay the new carpet in place and let it rest in place for a day or two.
Take the Mach 1 for a cruz.

 

well, i did a few small things. i cleaned and painted my battery tray, frame mounts , radiator and some pulleys. i will possibly install my electric fan today. my next big job will be to get rid of the big wasp nest in the fender.

 

I polished some trim today...

 

Had to massage the driveshaft tunnel upwards with a decent sized hammer...Driveshaft would occasionally touch towards the rear on heavy duty dips in the road

 

I stuck on new mirror glass right after fedex delivered it. Now I need a cop to sign my ticket!

 

Turn signal switch

i put a new turn signal switch in my 69.5 today. What fun!