Vintage Thunderbird Club International

Zoom in and you can see where it mounts to the firewall.

Heres mine

Black/red is Ground. Other black is Field. Yellow goes to the post on the rear

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Usually bad seals. Google “transmission morning sickness” lots of information

Pull the bulb in the suspect socket and make sure the 2 contacts inside the socket aren’t touching. I’ve had this exact issue before and found that when the bulb was pushed in and turned the two contacts touched. To remedy this, I removed the bulb then slightly pulled the wires from the back and rei...

RegM 56 T-Bird wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 5:25 pm That is too simple!! Great idea. Have you had to replace staples in yours?

The only thing I’ve had to do was straighten the cloth bead that covers the staples a couple times.

That’s pretty common. What I’ve done is keep a 3” wide plastic putty knife in the glovebox and when I put the top down I insert the putty knife between the canvas and the side of the car to allow the top to slide in easily. Doing it 1side at a time and working slowly has worked well.

The only thing that could cause that would be the black wire with the red stripe getting power from somewhere. It should come from the reverse lights and go to the neutral switch at the gearshift then to the headlight switch. It gets power when the headlights or park lights are on and the car is pla...

Originally they were all adjustable in 55,56, and 57. Does the collar loosen or is it froze? You may need to put plastic and rags on the floor then spray everything with PB blaster, wd-40 or a 50-50 mix of acetone and automatic transmission fluid and let it soak then give it a few good pulls and pus...

There are a couple different kinds of extenders, plastic and metal. The plastic ones generally not threaded on both ends so you cannot put a valve cap on them and don’t perform as well. The metal ones will allow you to use a standard valve cap and you can check and add air as needed without removing...

I’ve got one on my 55 and it is indeed for both static reduction and grounding the hood.

I’ve always driven my older truck and thunderbird with 2 feet and my daily car with 1 foot.

New seals on both hard and soft tops and windows adjusted correctly still
F=floods
O=on
R=rainy
D=days

Here’s my dash after installing LED’s. And what it looked like with the regular incandescent bulbs. The only drawback to LED’s is they are not dimmable but that doesn’t matter to me.