69%morewhoopass

Hello, I have a 69 mustang coupe 302. I have recently been having some trouble with the headlights. A few times I have pulled the switch and nothing happens. Every other light works fine with the exception of the headlights. At first if I waited a little while they would sometimes flick back on. But now they will not come on at all. I know it is not the bulbs because when I click on the brights all four headlamps turn on. I am assuming it has something to do with the wiring (maybe a short), but I am outside my kung fu. Any suggestions? Pardon my username- I was a young boy when I joined this forum. Thanks!

Thank you, but i was able to pull the door panel off while the door was closed. I was then able to manually reengage the mechanism by sliding my hand into the door and now the door is open. I greased the latch and all is well. I will let it sit a few days with the panel off until i am convinced it is fixed, but for the time being the problem has been resolved. thanks

I have a suspicion that it may be a mechanical failure, for once inside from the other side i am not able to pull up the lock manually

My driver side door lock won't open with the key. The lock is not fully engaging and the door lock does not go up all the way, preventing the door from being fully unlocked. To add to this the door latch itself can not be used to open it from the inside either. The long and short of it is i cannot open my driver side door from the outside or inside. To top it off i can't get my door panel off without the door being open. Do i have a time-deteriorated door latch mechanism? Is this easy to fix, or am i doomed to getting in through the passenger side door? any help is appreciated

This is all great advice, and i will spend some time this weekend chasing down these soon to be nonissues. Thank you all

Thank you all! I will look into the vacuum advance unit, i believe that may be a source of error. I will also check to see if my accelerator pump is maladjusted. The range, however, i cannot be sure of, for i do not have a tac on my car. a rough guess would be around the 3000 rpm range, which again is a very rough estimate. The engine only hesitates when I get on it a little bit. On that note, i know that my points are not correct, for my dad and I made a futile attempt at adjusting them correctly. needless to say it was 30 minutes, only to end up at the exact reading we started. anywho, I will be sure to check into all the possibilities you have all presented. thanks again

Hello all, I am the next generation of foothilltom (he is my father), and i happy to be a part of this forum. I apologize for the obscene username. It was meant to be "69%more'stang", but unfortunately the other username is being posted. The more obscene one was not supposed to be kept, but an accidental stroke of a key saved it into the computer. With that said, my dad and i have recently installed a new Edelbrock manifold with a holley 600 4 bbl carb on the orange car, which i have been told you are all familiar with to some degree. With all these new additions we have introduced a hesitation in the engine at a certain RPM just before the secondaries open up. The engine runs fine above and below this RPM range, but in this range the car falls on its face; almost cutting out completley before pushing past to a higher RPM. Also the engine runs very rough if not pushed past the hesitation or let off. It is my intention to purchase pertronics, but budget constraints have hindered the effort. In the mean time i need a course of action. Any help is welcome