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Time for another episode! but first, I wish you all a nice 2024! I went to France, Paris for a few days, during past week, but for xmas and new year, I was alone, so while most worked hard on adding kilos around their wastes, I've managed to do some stuffs in my cold garage... For xmas, I...

Happy new year everyone! Let’s see what 2024 will bring us! On my part, I know already this one should bring tons of welding! 😄

70 is the new 40! Looking forward to see your progress!

Looking forward to read your build thread! Welcome from the northern Netherlands

@rio1856 Wow! You should make a build thread, this is exemplary! What's the primer/copper stuff that you are using?

Another small update with very little to show Most my limited time was spent removing tons of crap from the car, from ancient insulation sticky glue to bitumes and sand mixed with oil.... Really dirty weekends! And once some places were "clean" the real work still needs to be done and gave me...

@Gypsyironworks I’m not sure Polyurethan is that expensive vs gel coat + fiber + polyester. You need for a good repro to build a two piece mould in polyester before be able make one. But after that polyurethan is more easy and only a matter of pouring it with little handwork. Over here I’d be...

True that! Found by mistaking my 93 t-bird trunk key that it could open my 73 trunk too!

You can install with engine in place. Just like for most headers, is to lift the car enough so you have the collector mid car from side, then while lifting the tubes try stay paralel to the block. Problem with these is you need the tubes to insert in each other, so you need lets say 1 inch play...

I got these. Pita indeed. The trick is to use a wire/rope with the 2 cyl on the back almost in place and the rope at cyl 3 or 7. Insert the 2 front. Then it’s a dance about have the flanges starting to bolt and go underneath force the other to line up. Worst design ever.

These are pitas to make for sure. The old piece should help you recreate them when it comes to space between them. The forward alignment can be extracted from the fender. A quick way to check side to side (from middle hole is the hood width minus fender L to side of the hole x2. Then cross...

@Kilgon It's gonna take a while before I can do that. I have a sh...t load of things to go thru before and I have less time avail than I use to have. But the day I can start put it back together, it should go fairly fast as I have restored the majority of each and every parts already as you...

time for a little update... Took a while because I had limited time for the 71 and what I was doing wasn't really "forum worth". So instead of posting one boring thing at a time, here are more boring stuffs squeezed in one post, hopefully less boring that way!! :O So as showed in my...

@KSpence Well, no need to preach me really, if you look at my project thread, you'll see I'm plating all my parts for years now using zinc, copper and nickel. From spindles down to every bolts. Basically anything that fits in one of my containers! I'm a true believer! :D Frankly I do not...

@KSpense Very nice to see someone plate at home! May I ask what kind of electrolyte you are using?

I did restore/rebuild my 71 doors last year. It was a fairly tedious process involving significant metal work (for an amateur like me), but the original ones have both front and back and skin guides made of strong metal, something that you will not find in the repop. Which was next to their...

Hedmans long tube as well on my 73 and installed with fmx. Now AOD. Not clearance issues. Only one detail may you run EFI. On hookers(as seen on my 429) and Hedmans the fabrication process of these was never intended to make them really outside air tight. I had to reweld all the flanges in and...

@Mister 4x4 "I went with this DiNoc product instead." I stayed home! And deleted this fakery :)) @Sheriff41 "Has anyone tried using real wood veneer?" I have, for the PW bezels. Burned on this close up pict. They are in for over 30 years now. But at the time the sheets of wood you could get...

To come back to your original question. Yes you can't really be 100% sure. Unless some apron work is visible and against the claim of the seller. In my experience, I know I find very strange that 35 years ago, there were already at the time a few 429 CJ's registered and now days, since value...

@Kilgon I hope the spacer fixes the issue. I'm frankly tired of not being able to trust my car to bring me from A to B. Let's hope this mod will prevent cooked o2s... I'll post on it again once I have hopefully put a few hundred more miles on my 73.