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Just brilliant!

Thanks, Doug. You nailed it -- and fortunately, that's an easy fix. Swapped batteries, started right up. Headlights are bright(ish) and top works. I guess I've been down in the weeds looking for complicated solutions to obscure electrical issues for so long, I forgot to start with the...

After two weeks of just sitting, went for a drive. Was merrily tooling around the 'hood this weekend and gave it a little goose on the last block before home. Instantly from under the hood a pop (like a backfire into the carb) and the car quit. Coasted to a stop and when trying to start, 100%...

Vacuum diagrams have been posted many times — I’d check before wholesale disconnecting hoses. The ports on the firewall are connectors to get engine vacuum other places, such as the HVAC canister.

The catch is they're the only game in town offering Comfortweave. So if you gotta have it, you gotta deal with SMS. I will admit several times in the past 30 months I was nearing my limit of no updates and no progress, but then I resigned myself to there's no where else to get it. And the...

The fabric is 58” wide and how much I over ordered will depend on whether we can get three or only two pieces across.

Glad to see others are as enthused as I was surprised! Contact for the Comfortweave is SMS Fabrics (https://smsautofabrics.com). I ordered *only* the fabric in black, but while they do sell other colors and other parts for interiors. Check with them for availability. Samples are free. I have...

...and it arrived today! I am serious -- I placed the order with SMS in January 2020 and it just arrived. Kim kept me convinced they'd get the machine working and patience paid off. For anyone new or otherwise unaware, Ford stopped production of the woven vinyl known as "Comfortweave" in...

Actually, led-flashers with a ground *and* short jumpers that switch polarity are indeed in place. What happened was the (original) spare tire/wheel was not secured and had shifted just enough to push the parking light feed into the ground on just one side, which explains why they worked...

Regarding the empty plug you found above the glove box, this should be helpful. It's for a '73 so look for differences.

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Super sweet!

Thanks, but yes, I had already done that. After the shop replaced my LEDs with incandescents, they left the electronic units in place.

Alrighty then and thanks! At least that's something that hasn't been tried: testing front and rear separately. But I don't understand this: "When you say the turn signals don't work, does it happen all around the car, or only at one position?" I mean there is no blinking. Each side, front...

Was having oil pressure issues and took the car in for that and while there I had them try to fix the non-working blinkers as well. This thread picks up on the electrics. Background: although they didn't work prior, I had switched all the small bulbs (i.e,, everything but headlights) over to...

For now, I think I'm at the end of my low oil pressure saga. Bearings were within tolerance so a high performance oil pump was installed. Limited testing but the only time oil pressure is below the one-third mark on the (factory) gauge is when the car is turned off. While they had the car in...

At last, an update. My mechanic was swamped and solving problems for other people so it took a week longer to get in than expected. Brought it in for the really low oil pressure at idle and "while the car is here..." to see if they can find the short causing the blinkers to not work. The oil...

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Test drive results at normal operating temp: Pressure seems to roughly coincide with the earlier suggestion of 10 lbs pressure per 1,000 rpm once above idle (which never dropped below 12 lbs): 20 lbs at 2,000, 25 at 2,500, etc. I didn't get to over 3,000 rpm in my limited drive. It's a...