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7173Mustangs have now merged my old and new accounts together, I am no longer a Newbie and have returned back into Well-known Member status. Thanks be to the 7173Mustang team for spending the time to help me out with this! 👍👍👍

Even though my car is a completely different yellow than the movie car, about ten years ago I parked my car near the local auto store and as I was walking from the car to the store a man in his early 20's walking along with his lady in the other direction said "Hey, that's a nice Eleanor you've...

Well, I'm back, though it's only been a day since I last posted so I'm sure nobody knew I was gone! (or possibly even knew who I was in the first place🙂 ). My previous username was Flatback72, now it is Flatback72. 👈with a full stop at the end of the username. Back in 2011 when I signed up here...

Fitted a replacement newly painted endura bumper and bumper bracket to my car. My original endura bumper had received a whack on the front of it at some stage which had flattened it across the front, meaning the leading edge at the middle of the bumper was pushed back about an inch away from...

Took my car to a car show, my yellow '72 is in the background of these pics. Every year the factory that I worked for for 39 years straight and retired from 2 years ago (Thales, in Bendigo, Australia) puts on an employee and ex-employee end-of-year car show that is not open to the public. In the...

Every time my front end squeaked it was upper control arm bushes. In my current Mustang even brand new control arms started squeaking after a month on the car and greasing them would only stop the squeaking for a week or so then back to squeaking again. I ended up replacing the upper control...

Does the idler arm at the WCCC link with the kink in it clear the sub-frame on full lock?

Thanks for the replies everyone, it seems these are not reproduced. I found a second hand one for sale from West Coast Classic Cougar for 11 bucks, so problem solved for the time being. I don't think 3D printing these would provide a durable part. The original items seem to be made from plastic...

I changed my window anti-rattle guide today in my left door, also found one of the round plastic window stops had fallen to pieces. There's only about a 1/4 of it left so I've turned it around so the last 1/4 is functioning correctly as a stop but it ain't gonna last long. There is a couple of...

I'm about to replace the bushings in my equalizer bar. Hopefully everything will go well but on the chance I find the units bore or linkage holes are too worn I'm doing some preliminary research into buying a brand new replacement item. Looking at one on the West Coast Classic Cougar page...

My 1972 with a 302 was built on 1st May 1972, it has a one piece fuel eccentric.

I found a set of Quick Jack lookalikes here in Australia in Melbourne (200 mile round trip to collect) called Quick Lift - Chinese made but sturdy and solid made with square sectioned 40mm RHS steel, chunky lifting cylinders, welds that look a little rough but seem solid, and good final finish...

Great comprehensive information, thanks for the quick reply! I would plan to do the same as you and leave them on the ground and park the car over the top of them. I don't have the space or roof height for an normal hoist and all of the other similar lifts to the quick jack are joined by large...

I'm seriously considering the quick jack based on your photos. Considering the quick jacks need to be slightly angled a bit to fit the pads under the front and rear torque boxes, do you experience any problems as they raise up caused by the change in the geometry between the two jacks between...

I used the Leed brake conversion kit too, though I paid a brake shop to do the installation. It changed the driving nature of my car in a really good way - all of a sudden my car was acting like a normal car should and I was no longer having to pre-anticipate braking maneuvers at traffic lights...

You might be able to get an idea of the condition of your cam gear and chain by taking the distributor cap off and looking at the rotor movement while you manually by hand move the crank back and forth. At the point of failure I could move my crank back and forth about 13 degrees (measured with...

Always good to close out a mechanical problem forum thread with the final fix solution, so here is the update on the wrecked timing gear. I actually completed this job within a couple of weeks after the first post. As detailed in the original posts I tried to start my car in my garage and the...

I've linked to this forum in a few youtube comments before, but youtube seemed to think I was spamming and automatically deleted my comments not long after I posted them.

This is a fairly entertaining watch (33 minutes); a guy put a Jag V12 in his patina'd 73 Mustang

Yeah, throw away that idler arm. I bought one the same as that with the packaging marked as for a 71-73 Mustang but it was clearly a different geometry than the original. I ended up buying this one instead (link below) from West Coast Classic Cougar which side by side had the same geometry as...