Vintage Thunderbird Club International

If the compressor has the oil already in it their should be enough for a typical automotive system. Having excessive oil in a system can damage the compressor internals such as valves and even bend a connecting rod. A small amount of the oil will be carried around the system with the refrigerant whi...

If you purchase a new or rebuilt compressor it should have a bottle with the correct type and amount of oil with it, there should be no need to add oil for the refrigerant. The oil circulate with the refrigerant while the system is operating.

The plastic top hold down clamp was used on the 66, 64/65 used the bottom clamp to hold down the Ford battery with the bottom ledge clamp on it #27F.

There is a special socket that holds the shaft and losens the not at the same time, they are not expensive, but could not tell you where to find one today.

So are you telling us that you do not have a stripped tapping for the starter anymore???

In the day almost all cars were equipped with 14" wheels.

You Need to remove the starter first then you will be able to get at the repair. The proper and best way would be to heli-coil this the only real way to repair it permanently, I would not trust any epoxy to stay there with the temperature cycles, torque, and potential of oil being present when curli...

What does this bolt do? Did you have the correct length of bolt or did it bottom out?

The oil can not get pulled up the vacuum hose from the transmission to my knowledge, unless the diaphragm in the modulator valve has been perforated. The diaphragms do fail over the years of use.

Centre section is painted with red primer, axle housing is satin black or semi gloss.

Sounds from your question that your trunk lid and top operation is not working correctly. If you just want to put items in your trunk when the lid will open with the top up and close without any switches being manually held you will be able to put things in the trunk.

You likely need to raise the rear of the car on axle stands to allow enough room to move the pipe back as it is slid out of its installed position. Also remove the clamps and/or loosen as required to be able to move the rest of the system to get the pipe out of the H pipe slip connectors if they are...

The resistor wires in the 64 to 66. Tbirds are installed from the motors to ground, the rear ground runs from the motor to the driveshaft tunnel and terminates under the console box with a screw into the tunnel metal.

The shield shoud be Clear Cadmium plated.

Your shop manual for your car should list the coreect bulb for the ignition switch.