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  1. mrgmhale

    1972 Q-CODE 4SPEED 351CJ BUILD

    Hi! I love the photos, and admire the work. I have also had pinched nerves (Radiculitis in the neck vertebrae), and indeed it sicks - painfully so. Luckily I only have pain if I ignore the tingling sensation when my neck is at a bad angle. I ignored the tingling once before and wound up in...
  2. mrgmhale

    Lifter noise

    Where in PA are you located. I might be able to drop by on a road trip a little later this year and do an acoustical analysis if you have not by then resolved or identified the issue.
  3. mrgmhale

    Motorcraft Carb

    You have gotten some solid advice in the responses prior to me jumping in. I thought I would share the fuel pump test specs for pressure and volume. For you to lose fuel delivery so quickly is an indication you have a fuel pump issue as opposed to a fuel flow blockage issue (filter). Any time...
  4. mrgmhale

    Parts For Sale Vintage LED Taillights for 71-73 and Taillight housings

    The Vintage LED panels are indeed a huge improvement from the older incandescent bulb technology. Very bright. In fact, they are brighter than the first LED kit I installed, which I had to run switched power to for the sequential flashing to work. I was fine with the first LED kit, But, when...
  5. mrgmhale

    1972 Mach 1 C6 to AOD to T5 Swap

    Bummer re: the Throttle Valve not being at a high enough PSI level to prevent frying the clutch pack. It is one of the things I e=fear after having replaced our 73 Mach 1's original C4 with and AOD the other year. I am not running 30-35 PWI, however. I wanted a little crisper upshift in 1-2...
  6. mrgmhale

    Parts For Sale Vintage LED Taillights for 71-73 and Taillight housings

    I have a seet of Vintage LED panels in our 73 Mach 1, and they work GREAT. They provide sequential flashing using one of several flash options. And, they have a microprocessors on each panel, which means you do not have to run a switched 12 volt power wire like several other brands require(d)...
  7. mrgmhale

    Upgraded Carb

    If you get anything larger than 650cfm I suggest getting aa carb with vacuum secondaries, which allows the engine to let the carb know when it ought to begin opening the secondaries. Otherwise you run the risk of over-carbing the engine which will actually hurt performance at wide open...
  8. mrgmhale

    1971 Boss 351 NOS Distributor

    I am so tempted, just because. But I do not have a Boss 351, so for me to grab it would be denying a real Boss 351 owner the opportunity to actually use it. I know I could run it in my 351, but I do not have the internals or externals that would let me take real advantage of the dual points.
  9. mrgmhale

    Help with 1971 Rear Window Louvers.

    Spoken like a gentleman who saw what happens when one overlooks that step. Luckily I read a similar comment before installing louver slats on out 73 Mach 1. They look nice, and actually help reduce the amount of heat built up inside due to solar radiation passing through that huge rear window...
  10. mrgmhale

    Electric Choke and Wiring

    The white wire with black stripe (Circuit #4) is used for the factory electric choke connects to the alternator stator terminal. The power coming from the stator circuit is a very unusual kind of power. It is both Alternating Current (AC), and 1/2 the voltage found at the alternator output...
  11. mrgmhale

    Electrical Harness Firewall Grommet

    In one casr I ended up taking a length of vacuum hose and slitting it for the legth I needed to use to cover the metal edgess of the ssirewall. That worked really well. If you have enough room consider using fuel line as it is a lot togher than vacuum hose, but vacuum hose was all I had and it...
  12. mrgmhale

    Need help with charging A/C system

    Just a heads up I have not seen mentioned in the prior posts. If you do go to R134, the compressor oil must be changed to a refrigerant oil compatible with R134. The regirant oil used for R12 is NOT compatible with R134.
  13. mrgmhale

    A Pretty Dumb Question...

    I never thought about removing the zipped glass. The top goes up and down without error. I am glad to see so many other folks also have no problem. I got lucky. heh heh,.,,
  14. mrgmhale

    Car Insurance

    I had Hgerty's for a dew years, but then found out my umbrella liabilioty would not extend to the play cars unless I insured through the same carrier that I had my umbrella policy with (USAA). They have an affiliate program with American Collectors. So I cut over. Their rates were about the...
  15. mrgmhale

    A/C Vacuum Mode Selector Switch AC Air Conditioning

    Thank you for lwtting us know what fixed the issue. I am sure it is going help other fellow enthusiasts, even yezrs from now...
  16. mrgmhale

    A/C Vacuum Mode Selector Switch AC Air Conditioning

    I found that in these older cars that used vacuum to move air flow doors open and shut that when there was a large vacuum leak air would predominately blow through the defrost vents. This would also happen in cars climbing a mountain where there was not enough vacuum to keep the air flow doors...
  17. mrgmhale

    Are these hoses connected correctly?

    Below are some file links to my Google Drive that will help you determine what vacuum line goes where. From your photos I could not tell the year Mustang you have, so the info I have provided is for 1973. If you have a 1973 year model Mustang, the 1973 Emission Control related documentation is...
  18. mrgmhale

    What did you do today instead of working on your Mustang?

    I was using an electronic stethoscope to narrow down the cause of a valvetrain ticking from a 1968 Road Runner 440 (punched and stroked out to 520 CID). He has a retrofit hydraulic roller lifter and ca, so unless the metal hardening on the can failed the lack of Zinc in his engine oil ought not...
  19. mrgmhale

    Gas smell

    Here is some documentation that should help. In the section on Emission Control devices the Fuel Vapor Control section is a pages into the document. I also have some YouTube video information on the fuel evaporative system as well: https://youtu.be/n9woMnHByts https://youtu.be/SsbtiPWY9sU
  20. mrgmhale

    NEED ALL MEMBERS TO RESPOND PLEASE!

    We have two 1973 Mustangs: 1973 Mach 1 1973 Mustang Convertible
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