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I've run into that on the 4.9L FBC and 1985-86 5.0L EFI engines, damn cast iron gets very weak after years of heat/cool cycles, Thread is same as a 14mm spark plug and can be Helicoiled.

Very nice looking rig sir!

Your clutches/band on the C6 work as follows: 1st automatic, forward clutch and low sprag clutch (in rear of case) 1st manual, forward clutch and low/reverse clutch 2nd automatic or manual, forward clutch and intermediate band 3rd automatic, forward clutch and reverse/high clutch Reverse, reverse/high clutch and low/reverse clutch If you can get engine braking in low (1) then the low/reverse clutch is good, no 3rd or reverse, reverse high clutch is bad or there is a gross leak in the oil delivery seals or clutch seal

Why don't you drain the converter with it's drain plug?

1990 Lincoln Town Car is an excellent match for your truck. I assume you already know what wiring changes are needed.

You fellows should be glad you're not here. Temperature and humidity race to see who wins, many days it's a tie, once in a while the temperature will say "gotcha" and get over 100. Mosquitoes, our BSA camp has blood sucking helicopters and one of the jokes is two of them arguing over where to eat a boy, there or take him home. The reply is "if we take him home the big ones will get him". Poquoson (a city on the East side of Hampton) has legendary mosquitoes.

I have had good luck with Dorman replacements on my Chrysler. I just buy the ignition cylinder and re-pin the door locks (mine has a halo illuminated door cylinder).

That looks like the one my 1995 Lincoln Continental with the 4.6L DOHC engine takes.

Ya, the Brits use the metric system for measuring everything except the distance on the roads...lol. That is an odd one. Having grown up with the Metric system I do find it super easy to work with since everything is in multiples of 10. I still have to take time to convert ounces and things like that. Distance and weight I am fine with converting. I do very much prefer Celsius over Fahrenheit...water freezes at 0 and boils at 100 is just too simple for me;). One of the reasons I was given, working at a major defense contractor, was the difference in the way the English system fasteners and Metric system fasteners specify class of fit and arrive at it. In the English system the basic fit is a specific size, let's use 5/16-18 as an example. The basic fit has a certain amount of "slop" in it. If you want a tighter fit, then the male portion is increased in size to make it a "tighter" fit. Metric, nearest equivilant being M8X1.25, the tightest fit is the standard and the male portion is reduced in size for a looser fit. This gave DOD nightmares as the male portion of a given set would be weaker the looser the fit, rather than stronger as the fit was tightened up. While we are on this, I have the second year of Ford's Metric pickup. I also had a few late 70s - early 80s GM products. Every peripheral on the engines everything is metric, except the attachment to the engine. The engine itself is English (thankfully not Whitworth or British Standard). Detroit also chose some damn strange hex sizes. A European car would have M6, M8, M10, M12 and larger fasteners with head sizes of 10, 13, 17 and 19 mm, Japanese would have M6, M8, M10, M12 etc and hex sizes 10, 12, 14, 17 and 19 mm. US, M6 = 10mm head, M8 = 13mm head, M10 = 15mm head, M12 18mm head. For a number of years 15 and 18 mm wrenches and sockets were very hard to find as no one but US automakers used them.

When I put the later doors and seals on Darth it made a huge difference, biggest noise now is the rubber strips that were put on the roof and are coming out of their retainers. Even my big tow mirrors aren't noisy.

I know this is an old thread, but, I just retrieved my 1985/86 harnesses from where they were stored. There are 2 complete (I believe) sets. Once I get home I will separate them and lay them out for inspection. These were obtained for my son's 1986 F150 which he has since sold.

What bothers me is the "protests" in many major cities. I am currently in Newport News VA as Mary is in the big Riverside hospital (ours on the shore is a satellite). Not only does Newport News have a large black population, mostly in what is called "East End", but I have seen and been exposed to a wildcat strike that went into rioting back in the late 60s at the shipyard. First night they burned an NNPD cruiser, second night the VSP had a damn water-cooled machine gun set up, and when the crowd got rowdy they turned the dogs on them and then tear gas from the upwind side. Yard shut down 2nd and 3rd shifts. I was on 3rd shift and had driven from Virginia Beach to be turned away at the gate. When we leave here to go home our route goes through Hampton, Norfolk and Virginia Beach. Up until the point where we get onto US 13, we are on I-64, we get onto US 13 in Norfolk and go about 3/4 mile and are in VB, then it is at first a busy road with fast food, gas, truck stops etc for about 2 miles, then a nice 6 lane divided highway to the CBBT. Choke point on US 13 is at the "Norfolk Premium Outlets Mall" just inside the city line. I am hoping first that we don't have those "protests" and second, if we do they will not be on the major roads.

True, but the 429 car housing will fit.

Parkland (Scotty), who is a member on here, has all that information on his site. Zero balance flywheel, Mustang 1971-73 429, Torino 1970-76 with 429 CJ/SCJ. The pre-1979 trucks with the 460 may have been available with a manual transmission. I'm sure Summit or Jegs probably has one.

Ok, did a quick scan of the stuff in the box, it appears there are 2 sets in there. Some damage on each, mostly some missing plug shells.

Virginia has the vintage or antique system also. Main difference is usage restrictions on antique tags. When Matt had his 1965 Corsa, I got a set of excellent condition 1965 VA plates, black letter/number combination on white. I carried them into work and had them sand blasted and painted with some super epoxy white. My son in law hand did the black 19 Virginia 65 and the 6 numbers. Matt got them as a Christmas present along with the new registration. I had to give the license plate collector (an old friend) one of my two sets of Marine Reserve plates (I had MR-18 and MR-19) for the 1965 plates. Jury is still out on the Lebaron, I have kept the plates from the 1985 active so I can't lose the T2K-CAR number. If I can have them issued as a vintage tag I will, antique tags limit your usage and the State Police are cracking down on people who abuse them.

Ok, a few items from dealing with my son's 1986 F150 EFI 302. First, the 1985/86 EFI system uses the TPS voltage as the idle set point, not rpm. The set point is pretty sensitive as it is 1.0 VDC +/- .05 VDC. This is critical as the EGR controls start at 1.10 VDC and too much throttle opening will cause a solenoid "chatter" or a surging idle as the EGR opens than closes. The 1987 up systems use a "duty cycle" solenoid rather than the Vacuum/Vent system in 85-86. The wiring harnesses on these were also horrible quality, frayed insulation to the point of shorts and grounds. I was able to retrieve the harness(s) I had obtained for him and have perfect set of solenoids for the system. I will not be able really lay these out and do a full inspection/photos until probably 1 June as I am not at home nor will be till Sunday afternoon at the earliest.

Jim, we have 3 chicken plants here, Perdue, Tyson and Mountair farms. If you look at the Wuhan Flu charts for VA, Accomack County is where Perdue and Tyson are, Mountair is in MD. Bill

Very good Jim! Coming from a military family and marrying originally into another I have a few who did not make it through and some who by pure luck did. Great Grandfather survived the explosion of the Maine, only to end up shot through the lung at Belleau Wood. He survived that too, but it left him partially paralyzed on one arm My late wife's dad and uncle were there, uncle did not survive. Grandfather on Dad's side was WWI and WWII service in the Navy, and ultimately in the 60s lost his legs to circulation problems from standing watch in the North Atlantic in WWI. Dad survived a Kamikaze attack on one of his Destroyers in WWII. May we always remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our country!

Jim, Gary, and others, picture this if you will, in the penthouse at Norview High School, a group of kids from the class of 63 built a cyclotron, the oscillator for the two Dees was an old WNOR AM radio tube, someone else had donated a big motor/generator to power the electromagnet. There was a bank of GE Pyranol capacitors to smooth out the pulses. Virginia Electric and Power Company (VEPCO, now Dominion Virginia Power) ran a dedicated 460VAC 3 phase line to run the motor/generator. NASA Langley built us a high vacuum system. Myself and three of my Class of 64 friends were approached in the fall of 1962 about getting involved. That spring the district science fair was held at Norview, we took home Group Senior Physics, NASA Aerospace Science and a couple of other awards. Can you imagine a bunch of 16-18 year olds being trusted with that today? Yes, I was and still am a certified nerd!

Jim that is it, the game was to see (a) how much water you could get in and (b) how much pressure you could pump it up to. Fun because the "launch control" got soaked when it was released. People wonder why we have a nation of wimps, lawyers are the problem with the "somebody ought to pay" ads on the boob tube.

I had a water rocket as a kid in Norfolk, it had a pump that you actually launched it with. My brother was into the model rockets like you showed, we fired a bunch of the off when we lived in Virginia Beach. We used dad's WWII Navy binoculars to track them and once the parachute charge popped to figure out where it was coming down. We would launch them weekends and summers from the Shelton Park elementary school athletic field. This is a story will interest you, one of my classmates at Norview was a very brilliant girl named Mary Edith Gress. Her dad fought with the school over the stereotypes that women should know how to cook and sew. During our 40th reunion she and I went and toured the labs, and found that some of the test tube wooden racks had been there at least 40 years. During this we were talking about the "test tube rocket", the experiment where you heat Manganese Dioxide (I believe) to generate oxygen. Everyone was warned to not let the tube cool until the line was removed from the collection bottle and to be careful not to set the rubber stopper on fire. Two girls who probably would have been better in Home Ec managed to draw water up the tube until it broke at which point they started heating again and set the rubber stopper on fire. End result, test tube with flaming rubber, came out of the clamp and disappeared through the open window with a nice whoosh.

My dad could recite Ivan Skavinsky Skavar Here are the promised pictures of the plug wires on Darth:

Ok, items I have learned on yard/garden tractors. The three basic levels are Murray-Ohio, MTD and AYP/Electrolux. Quick ID, Murray stuff just generally looks cheap, MTD, rear wheels are held to the axles with 5/16" fine thread bolts and flat washers onto a 3/4" flattened axle. This fine piece will rust to where the wheels will not come off. The AYP/Electrolux use a 1" axle with washers and snap rings and a plastic dust cap that has grease inside it.

Not only did he do it, but the school's JD was running and in an effort to get the field cut quickly. they started on opposite sides, by the time it was finished Old Blue had caught the Deere. Gentleman walking out towards it was the father of the girl on the team He asked if they could borrow it because the playing field condition is critical in Field Hockey. It was parked in the school's equipment shed behind the Deere and the key was hidden where only 2 or 3 people knew.