Vintage Thunderbird Club International

Oil breaking down, carbon?
I've seen that on other cars but never my own.

Scott

I ended up using some thick angle iron for the mounts. They were very solid and didn't move at all but all that didn't help. Also bought some clamps to limit how much the bar could move side to side and that helped a little but still had banging, especially when traversing curbs. The real problem wa...

Hello Gray, and welcome! I'm not sure if even the rear main could leak that fast. I would get under there and look all over. If you can't see an obvious leak, clean it up some with rags and maybe some brake cleaner. Then take a short drive and check again. But first, I would check the oil filter. So...

There's no adjustment to the amount of boost you get. That's dependant on the sizing of components.

Cheers,
Scott

That would be my guess but for any "new" purchase of one of these cars I always recommend going through the entire brake system. It pays to make sure there are no leaking cylinders, calipers or other components and especially that the rubber brake lines (3 each) have been replaced.

Scott

Steve put it well. Unless you're really into this car and can or want to do body work, paint, etc, you're not going to be thrilled with dumping 30K+ into it along with a lot of blood, sweat and tears (lots of tears! LOL). OTOH, if you really like the car, they are sweet rides when everything is fixe...

And I thought I did some hokey things on my car asa kid. Please tell me the foam center cap thingy isn't jeopardized?
Hope the rest goes more predictably for you Wally!

S

If you haven't replaced all the parts that wear at the top end of the colum, I suggest you just remove it and do everything at once. Scott That's why I was hoping to do this without removing the column... I've replaced the shift arm/detent etc., and didn't want to have to deal with more column issu...

Does the portioning valve go to both the front and back brakes or just the back, with the single line MC? If it goes to both front and back won't a different ported proportioning valve be needed with a dual MC? The PV goes in the line to the rear brakes only. You can use the same PV with a dual MC....

People put all kinds of junk in there instead of replacing the bushing. Hopefully the white thing isn't in the way of putting the right bushing in. If you haven't replaced all the parts that wear at the top end of the colum, I suggest you just remove it and do everything at once. I had replaced ever...

JTS, That should work really nice, I've long thought we could use a 1 1/8 MC and it seems like the smaller size should fit like a dream. I suspect you'll have a slightly stiffer pedal but nothing serious. You'll have to let us know how this all works out!

Scott

It would be a lot of fun just cleaning her up and watching it come to life before you.

Yeah, that's terrible. I've never heard of a spring breaking either but as old as these cars are getting, anything is possible!

Scott

Nice. I look forward to hearing how it works out!
Have you picked out an electric fan yet?

S

I believe the high temp of power coating would destroy the rubber in the balancer. So hopefullly it was disassembled before coating and reassembled afterward. If they also covered up the timing marks I'm not sure what you're going to do. The pin thing is very strange looking. When they balance these...