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That won't work as there's full glass in the door. It's a complete door now. I'm thinking of building one or two brackets for where the hinges would go, and maybe something on the striker side. We'll have to see. I like that idea. How the door mounts!

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Lol, Bradley! I'll give a try... when wife will be away, or she's gonna think I'm completely "nuts". Maybe she already does!

I didn't know they were hard to find either. I bought one when I had my 86. Kept the original intact and put holes in the new one for antenna and wiring through there. Thought I bought it from LMC. Will these work? Item #12 has 5 different sizes. https://www.lmctruck.com/body-components/exterior-rubber/fd-1980-96-exterior-rubber-components

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That's a car! Nice!

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Yeah, they get hot! I remember the first time I flew in one at night and saw the glow through the louvers in the engine cowl.

That's cool! Sounds like those were good engines. Not a lot of turbos were cooled till later on. Some of the piston aircraft engine turbos I used to work on had no cooling. Smart owner/pilots would let them idle for 5 or 10 minutes to let the turbo spool down. If they didn't the turbos would coke up and the waste gates would stick. If the turbos coked up bad they would get rebuilt. My old boss found out that the old Mopar Heat Valve Solvent worked well on the waste gates. We would soak them and then hit them with a rivet gun on a piece of wood. Most of the time that cured them. Those engines were turbo dependent so no turbo, no power.

Bill, did those engines have cooling for the turbo? Oil or coolant? Or an aftercooler?

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I totally understand that. I just can't figure out the day I'll have to sell Big Bro. If I could go back in time and do it over, I would have at least kept the doors, fenders, bed, interior, hood, grille, and front bumper for the next truck and scrapped the rest if I decided to still get rid of the truck. I can say though that I will never suggest anybody sell their pride and joy unless they absolutely have to. Not everybody has a sentimental attachment to a vehicle, but when you do, selling them can be rough. Yes, I like the idea of hanging it in the shop! It's funny how people can get. A company I worked for built a new hangar, our Director of Maintenance speced out the new hangar. It was huge, and our shop was great, but we joked about the old hangar, that we maintained the aircraft with dirt floors and oil lamps. When we were finally moved in to the new hangar, a couple of us went over and took the sign off the old hangar and we hung it in our new shop. Sentimental and a reminder to be grateful.

The only other way I know of to get the window down is to crawl in back, take the panel off and take the motor loose. I would have someone hold the window or tape it up and let it down easy. To me this is only to replace the motor, not to get your luggage out.

Yes, great idea on the bed, too bad it didn't work out better.

It could be trying to move the window motor and its bad and that's why you're seeing a current draw.

Cool stories! Sorry guys, not a Shelby story, but noticed Bill mentioned a Buick 215. I bought a 1974 Vega with a Buick 215 aluminum V8 in it. And I believe a TH400, could have been a TH350. That little burger was pretty fast. I was stationed in southern California at the time, around 1981. We would go out and find like minded people and race a little bit. One night a Vette thought it was a joke until I kept up with him, we came to a stop and says what did you do to that and I said it was stock, which was technically true as the 215 was stock. He says right, pull into that parking lot, he wanted to see. We ended up talking for quite awhile, fun times. Man, as a gearhead I loved SoCal, anything you wanted was there, just had to have the money! And our base had a cool auto shop on it, you could use stalls and special tools they had on hand. The usual suspects hung out on the weekends and helped each other. My line chief had a Corvette. Another friend had a 180 HP turbocharged Corvair, I think they called it a Monza Spyder. That car was fast, I think his dad helped him with that car, his dad raced on the East Coast, Bill you may know him, Dutch Irrgang, The Flying Dutchman. Another friend had a 67 Cougar with a 289, three on the floor. That almost killed me! I was amazed at how much power we got out of the 289!

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Interesting article!

That looks great! Good job!

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