Vintage Thunderbird Club International

You may know this, the headlight switches sold for about $20.00 at most auto stores are incorrect, the pull switch, does not sit flush, when in the off position.

I have a Landau I would just need to remove the back upper panels (sails) to install shoulder harnesses, not the headliner at all. Ford's push button seat belts at least what I have seen in mine have a flaw, which could trap the occupant, latch belts or the shoulder harness a better idea.

I believe there is a design error in the original 1966 Ford push button seat-belt, if known, it may have generated a safety recall if such a process existed back then, the buckle with the design of the latching could become stuck leaving the occupants unable to free themselves. I was cleaning up my ...

Are the bolts in the right places, are they pressing against the gear of regulator stopping it from moving?

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Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:05 pm

The one I posted is the right-side quarter window regulator out of my '66. I think rt.146's picture is of a door window regulator.

It is for one of the door window regulator.

I believe this is the position of the spring.

Where they go, no body knows :-)

I repaired both window regulators, and the vent windows not a fun job with the springs and that coupling for the vents, working at times by touch and as a contortionist.

Updating/repairing these cars, one could compare them to the 99 bottles of beer on the wall song, or something to that idea, just goes on and on.

I used a two-in-one relay for my headlights as the old wiring (I suspect) was overloading the circuit breaker built into the switch. Very scarey when the headlights went out without warning on a country road. Now with the relay system I have brighter lights that stay on I myself have bought the rel...

As a simpler process of elimination have you checked the dimmer switch for the high beams, personally mine was brioken where one of the small bolts goes through, that was allowing the lights to short, the previous owners some of who could of won an award for the best hacks, wound electric tape aroun...

Check your high beam switch it could be cracked causing a short.

Replace components with new one will be fine also, the customer just prefers everything electronic and modern, however given the expenses and time involved (and the fact that the original operations are very effective as they are) I think we'll continue by leaving things well enough alone. Thank yo...

I found one on E-bay, The button for the flasher one side is slightly longer to be able to press the switch inside, mine was broken, one of those annoying things that makes one wonder why/how it broke. The one I received was complete, swapped it out.

Sometimes dealing with T-birds makes me think I should go into therapy - physical and anger management especially. But then I get behind the wheel, turn the key and for a while I don't have a care in the world until I hear something strange from under the hood or outside the car... My feelings at t...