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Gotcha. Thanks. John

Hello Midlife. By cowl strut you mean the support bracket/brace that bolts to the shock tower under the upper shock bracket and gets bolted to the firewall? I see from the wiring schematics that the heavy black power lead for the convertible top switch goes along under that brace. John

I've searched quite a bit on this and there seems to be discrepancies as to where the wires should follow. Does the engine gauge feed and coil wire run up along the drivers or passenger valve cover? Secondly some say the alternator feed wire along with the black main power feed and travel down to the headlight harness...there's no way this harness will do that. I replaced the aprons on both sides so i don't see any holes for the solenoid wires to clip to on the passenger side shock tower/aprons making me think that they weren't fastened there when i removed it over 10 year ago. The voltage regulator harness and the alternator harness are of course one harness. Branching off that is a blue 2 pin plug with a male/female. Travelling from the cowl is the heavy black that goes to the + side of the solenoid. A red/black stripe that goes to the sta terminal of the solenoid. And also along with these wires is a two pin connector (blue) with a male and female. That plugin has a heavy black wire along with a green/red stripe and this plugs into the alternator harness. I'm just wondering where to fasten/run these wires? Theres a 3rd heavy gauge wire that travels out the cowl/firewall and gets attached to the underside of the strut brace and this ends up at the circuit breaker for the convertible top. Finally does anyone have a pic of this breaker installed to show it's orientation. I have it installed with the studs facing outward. Unlike the original this scott drake replacement does not have any markings on it for power in etc. Sorry to be longwinded...thanks...John

Thanks aslanefe. I'll see what i can come up with. I have an order coming so i might be able to add these to it..saves running around looking for it and i can keep working on the stang. Regards...John

Thanks Guys: I have an email to my supplier to see if he has them in stock. I'm thinking that once the pads are installed the cowl just slides under the stainless moulding and that keeps it in place along with the screws at the forward portion of the cowl panel..thanks...John

Under the removable cowl where both wiper arms protrude through are there rubber or sponge insulators under it? It fastens at the front edge with roughly 7 small screws and one at each end with the rubber bumpers for the back of the hood but no attachment points close to the windshield. Does it just slide under the lower stainless moulding along the bottom of the windshield...the moulding that has 7 brackets that are clipped into the moulding and fasten to the firewall? Thanks..John

Supplier has agreed to take them back for a full refund. Guess i'll try to locate some decent original ones. ...thanks..John

I appreciate everyones' comments and thanks for the pics. Mustangstofear: While tweaking might be attainable, when the complete opening of the moulding is smaller than the bucket there's no way to physically widen the opening without kinking. It's like trying to stretch the letter " C" or a horseshoe open..somethings gotta give and either crack or dent. ..John

Hi Vic. I just noticed that you and i were discussing front coil springs in this 70 convert i'm finishing for a friend/customer. I also noticed that my response to you was still sitting in my drafts email :( Sorry about that. I'll probably give NPD a call and see what they say. I'd hate to return them as i'm in Canada and it is a royal " pita" to return things as the shipping is costly. If you have a chance could you send me a few pics of yours installed? thanks a bunch. John

Hello Vicfreg: We've emailed each other before. undamaged original extension and i have another extension here to test with the same results..totally unfit. I wonder where NPD sources theirs from. If i knew that they guaranteed their fit on an original unmolested extension i would purchase these and have them shipped up to me. How's your convert coming along? If not too much trouble can you take a pic of your mouldings installed? thanks.. John

Don't recall seeing that on my 69 sportsroof when i restored it. ..John

Trying to install a set of Scott Drake mouldings on the fender extension. These mouldings are so far off that it is impossible to make them fit. They don't fit the opening and are total garbage. I contacted my supplier, who has been excellent all along and he advises that he will replace them but advised that i probably won't be happy with the replacements as they look terrible as well. Says he has had a ton of complaints about them. This is an original headlight bucket extension so it's not like I'm fighting to get two aftermarket pieces to work together. Has anyone on the forum run into this? I'm assuming that there is only one or two factories in Taiwan punching these out. It amazes and floors me as to why, in this day of cnc mills and computers etc that a NOS moulding can't be copied to fit better than these replacements. And..they're not cheap to purchase! It's not like these need a little bend here and a tweak there....they just don't fit. Frustrating to say the least. Maybe someone on the forum may have a decent used set i can purchase from them or can point me in the direction of a different supplier of decent parts but these Scott Drake copies just aren't cutting it. Thanks...John

I'll check with the owner of the car to see what he wants to do. Thanks...John

Not unless i change back to 3 pin park lights right as the 70 parklites are two pin. And..I just noticed that not only is the park light a 2 pin connector so obviously the 70 wiring harness also has the 2 pin connector to hook to it. This will make it impossible to use that 69 'jumper style' wiring harness which has 3 pin connectors. So i guess i'll be cutting into the harness just short of the green plug and tying into the two signal wires and call it a day. John

Hello. I did that and as expected ( As i just had the harness apart and rewrapped) there is no plugin for the lights. The first plugin is for the prop valve switch..it wraps around the shock tower and then there's the w/w plug. I just looked at the schematic and i can see that the green/white wire in the underhood harness should connect to the left signal bulb of the hood scoop and the white/blue wire should connect to the right hood scoop bulb. Again, i checked out the wiring harness and there is not a plug to mate up to the hood scoop wiring. So, i guess i'll remove the harness along the shock tower and splice in the two wires to a new socket that will mate up to the hood scoop wiring...all i can do. I think it's safe to say that not all 70's came with that plug or else this car is an oddball..lol. Not sure what else to tell ya Thanks again for the help..John

I'll go check that as i rewrapped the harness and can't recall seeing that plug. I'll get back to you and again, thanks for the help. John

Thanks for the prompt response Midlife. Yep, the hood harness for 69 and 70 is the same. So you're saying the harness i have with both 3 pin jumper pigtails can't be used of course and yes it is labelled 1969. And is what you are saying is that the stock 70 harness running along the shock tower already has a plug in to accomodate the hood signals..am i reading you correct when you say it is 'integral' ? Thanks..John

Just wrapping up this 70 convert build and have installed the hood scoop option with signals in the rear. I note the scoop harness I have is the same part number for 69 and 70. However the jumper harness that my vendor supplied has 3 pins where it intercepts the turn signal harnesses at the front and the turn signals on the 70 only have two. Harness is a 'go between' the turn signals at the front and runs back along the shock tower and connects to the hood scoop wiring. Anyone run into this before? Thanks..John

Will do. Just ordered in the rear's as we just moved the rears to the front. I'll post pics as soon as i have them. Tire shop says those are 2 weeks out...:( ....regards...John

Decided to go with 255/45/17 on rear and 245/45/17 on front.

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Interesting Pakrat: I'll check to see what the backspacing is on these rims. For some reason with those tires on the rear theres a lot of air above the tire to the quarter lip. Now i don't know the history on the leaf springs in this car as they were in the car when it came to me for resto. Regards...John

Lanky: Yes, i was considering the street valved ones. Danno: That's funny! John

Just about finished this resto and we've installed 245/45ZR17 on the rear but unsure as to what to put on the front. Anyone have this size tire on their 70 ( convert)? Thanks...John

Well at least those cars stayed local! ....John