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Alright, I'll give you that. But I'd like to think that if Big Blue had his druthers he'd flee the abuse received there. Not that Vern wasn't doing his very best to make him into the rig he and his wife wanted all along. I've spoken to a few people about the wheelbarrows of cash they can't fathom or ever admit to their better half. Provoking you to hire Scotty, incorporate a compressor, inverter and super duty RSK was vicariously satisfying. I have to thank you for allowing me to spend your money. 🤣 Now on to the rear bumper and tire gate! 😉

I just looked back at the pic of you and Vern doing the deed with Big Blue ready to escape Florida. This truck has some stories to tell before and after running away. I wonder what's next for BB? .

This guy probably spent as much in valves and wiring as he would have spent on the proper tank selector from Polak. About $80 market cost, $52 to me. I can appreciate his approach, but re-inventing the wheel for the inconvenience of crawling under your truck every 160 miles (rain/sleet/sand/snow/midnight/daylight/whatever) is not appealing at all. Maybe it's because I crawl under cars & trucks every day, in all weather? I can't post the words that spring immediately to mind. 🤬

You need to use the big size button on the insert image drop-down. The forum software can't handle jpg's over a Mb.... That is no bueno! http://www.garysgaragemahal.com/uploads/6/5/8/7/65879365/face-with-open-mouth-vomiting-23x23_orig.png I remember you saying someone had tried to install an electronically controlled transmission without a controller. Sometimes I can't grasp how these people manage to survive long enough to breed.

The 'inspection cover' IS the the separator plate, AND also provides the piloting diameter to positively locate the starter. Unlike a diesel the spacer-locating plate-bellhousing tongue/vent are all one in the same and have to go on before the flywheel/flexplate. Engagement depth is fairly critical. Flywheel and flex plates use different starters, Is this a T-19 or a C6 truck? I spent a decade chewing through starters, as Gary and Bill can attest. I'm pretty well versed in 460 starters!

Welcome Austin! Glad you've found us. That sounds like a dream truck for a 15 year old. 😳

I think we're not concerned with the 1-wire or using a choke relay any more. I was looking for validation that the made in USA Motorcraft style choke cap linked above will work directly from the #4 stator wire coming from a 3G upgrade. I find it interesting the gauges are 5V, since Gary seemed to do quite a bit of tuning with a bench power supply when he replaced the ICVR with a SWAD-J solid state converter came up with 5.4V.

Appreciate your video tutorial!

The universe works in weird ways sometimes...... 🤯

Jim is it possible that some clusters already have the right flex? I don't remember that I had to modify the cluster in order to add a tach in Big Brother. I don't think that a non-tach cluster would come with a tach flex, but the tach wire is definitely to the plug. I certainly haven't seen everything, but I also recall telling you that your truck definitely had a clutch switch and you know what you ultimately discovered about Big Brother.... Maybe Gary has the documentation or Mryl remembers from his decades at the part counter. I am only familiar with what I've seen, not an authority or guru.

Will, I had put those eBay pigtails on my watchlist when I posted them. I've received a discount offer from mcgworld. If you want to save a couple of bucks you might try 'watching' them too.

I recall that he has a bunch of Ford's that his wife wants to be driveable. Interesting video. It would have been useful a bunch of times, and may end up applying to CD Long https://forum.garysgaragemahal.com/Next-issue-Heater-air-flow-tp145358.html

https://forum.garysgaragemahal.com/The-FORD-Lounge-tp30992p79311.html I stand corrected, it's a 79 1/2

If you find a post and click George's username there is an option to 'send email' But the UI is broken software and you will get a response that it didn't go through. Gary is aware of this, but can't fix it, so he recommends CCing yourself so you know it was sent. I'll go look for one of his posts about upgraded factory radios or their AMAZING top of the line Ranchero. (Nick is an electronics wiz, and George is a recording engineer) If the email system is not working you can tag them to this thread, or I could even text him (as I sent them a Holley 0-80457s for the harlot 'half a pickup')

I put a page from the EVTM showing the back of the dash and the mounting points highlighted the other day. You didn't see it???

The big plug has the wire already in it. There is no difference in cab harnesses. If you get the flex everything goes right in. Just remember about the ground screw.

Doh! A manual Bronco is very rare. They all seem to have 'mandatory options ' like tach clusters, electric windows and intermittent wipers.

Manual Bronco is interesting enough to begin with. 😁 Shaun has parts from beyond the Bullnose window going on in his truck. But since he mentioned 'our documentation' I believe it must be a Bullnose part.

To be really plug 'n play you want the flex circuit behind the cluster as well. If you're not afraid of a little wiring you can make something up that connects to the green tach wire coming from the coil. Six cylinder and 8 cylinder ground differently to be able to use one tach part number for the different number of sparks per revolution.

An air dam or spoiler? Maybe an interior vinyl piece?

You should meet up with Nick & George. 💡 They have a great ex-military 300-6 truck 'Brutus' and a '77 bordello red Ranchero that looks right out of Starsky and Hutch. ETA: they live the east bank of NOLA in Lutcher.

Again, I don't think the person on the phone knows a darn thing about electric chokes. They may know carbureted fuel systems like the back of their hand. I, and Gary, and Bill (the triumvirate of crusty old Bullnose geeks) can assure you that a Motorcraft choke coil is meant to run on unrectified stator output. I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm just trying to make your life easier by telling you the facts. 7Vish coils go WAY back. Back as far as if id said that "All Ford gauges up to 1986 are meant to run on 6V" It's the internet. A dozen people would want to fight me, and argue to the death that I'm wrong 'because ford stopped using 6V batteries and generators with the '65 Mustang.' But they'd be wrong..... I'm too old to care what they think. And I'm mean and tired enough to watch them screw themselves for entertainment. I will tag Bill and see what the former owner of a carburetor shop and self proclaimed "Old School Hotrodder" has to say.. (( corrected the V. Have I said multiple times I hate my new screen protector? ))

Perhaps I am Bill. Do you happen to have an engineering number off that cable?

I don't know who you talked to, but obviously they DO have ~7V choke heaters. You seem articulate and intelligent. I don't think you asked the wrong question.🤷‍♂️ More likely the person on the phone has no idea that a 'for Motorcraft' choke is meant to operate on unrectified 2/3 alternator output.

Only if you bring the brownies! Harrisburg is pretty central to NY/CT/VT/MA and OH/KY/MD/VA IDK much about where to have a meet but at least there's accomodations (as long as no conflict w/ Carlisle)