Day something just too hot outside to think.

This is what I found after playing with the engine for about two hours trying to figure out why I had no fuel in the lines....two fuel pumps later..figured out what the problem was after some time on the net reading up on the problem.  Did not have time to finish working on it because it was too dark outside to see and did not feel like getting out the work lights. EDIT: well...found out what the problem is...as you can see the bolt that held the fuel lobe in wiggled out and broke the dowel and ate up the cam gear and the front cover........


Did get the tranny in place on the cross member that I ordered the other day, but forgot I needed the tranny bracket also....so that won't get to Advance Auto until tomorrow so I will finish the tranny when I get home then back to digging down to the fuel pump lobe.  I hope the bolt is just loose and not broken off  inside but we will see....

Day 5

Had to wait what seemed weeks to get my fuel tank and my sending unit but after paint and undercoating it was ready.  As you can see there was just a bit of rust inside the original tank and there seems to be something wrong with the sending unit.  Not sure how but after 38 years not everything made by Ford can keep original parts in top working order.  When I moved the tank I could hear the rust.... 

Because this is my second Mustang and I have learned a few tips from the last one I know that you don't throw anything away before you replace it.  I was able to salvage the parts off the original one except for the sending unit. 

 Bottom after the undercoating was sprayed.., got a few scratches on it already guess I should of not banged it around on metal when I was storing it out of the way till the sending unit got here.














If you only knew how hard it was to get the nuts off these bolts, after about 10 minutes working on getting one off (and almost throwing them into the street) I got the right tools to get the torque to break the rust.

 Not really any rust on the bottom of the trunk...too bad my other one did not look like this.

 Thanks to Ana's help I was able to get the tank straps on it.  Forgot how hard this was to get in place.

 Was the charcoal canister...going on Ebay, you can't expect me to keep this on my car can you???

 The MSD 6A ignition system for the car. I wanted to put it on the other side of the shock tower but 1) thought it might get too hot with out real air flow to it 2) the original wires that were on it were too short for the ground wire.  Not bad for a free item in the car.

MSD 6A Specs