Ricks 70 stang

My Stang is Sangria red metallic. The guy that painted my car said this is the color match for 2008 Mustang GT. It really pops out in the sun.

That is what held mine on.

Look for a screw on the inside Rick

I had the issue of the distibutor gear going to pieces. Flat tapped and cast gear. The problem i had was the location of the gear. Bottom of the gear to the location where the distibutor sits has a length to be set of 4.031" Min to 4.038" Max. This worked for me. My attachment is a Adobe file and it doesn't want to load. Rick

Jay It is part of the ignition on a 70. As you turn the key on it ingages the ignition switch. When the pin came out the key turned off but the ignition was still on. I got lucky when i found this problem. The ignition is totally different on a 69. I hope this explained it. Rick

On my 70 the pin that is in the picture came out and the car would not shut off. Rick

The only gauges that work on my dash are the fuel and speedo. No i didn't notice any spiking of the gauges. I didn't drive it this way either. I heard that over charging was not good. Have you check the altenator out?

Check your ground from battery to the engine block. My 351w was over charging at around 16 volts and i chased it down to too much paint on the block where the ground wire attaches. It doesn't cost anything to check this out. Rick

I have the saginaw pump and mine doesn't return to center. I'm hoping that someone has solved this issue.

I didn't have a socket to fit so I used a great big pipe wrench.

Danno, I had a custom Taurus Rack on my car. Steering was great and tracked very well even without the alignment. But turning radius was really bad. I was going to do an aftermarket R&P kit then found the borgeson setup and went with it. I was able to drive the car today without the cut out problem(Distributor issues). (Installed a new distributor). Seamed to handle very well. I am pleased with the outcome so far. Just need to put some more miles on it to know for sure. Rick

Ricks 70 Stang, do you think it would have been any easier fitting the lines to the box before bolting the box in? Rod. Rod, The crows foot worked pretty well. At first I used a wrench that i cut off, but couldn't get them tight enought. Crows foot with an extention worked ok. Home made crows foot at that. I took a wrench and cut the end off and welded it to a 3/8 drive socket. The biggest pain was the return line on the saginaw pump. The reinforced hose is tough to get on. I had to put it on the pump off the car then install the pump and then the hose to the box. Rick

The box is a direct bolt in. You will use 11/16 36 spline half rag joint(supplied with the kit). The steering column will colaspe. I had previously modified the colaspable part of my steering column so I had to remove column and cut about 1/2 inch off the end. You might want to try without cutting. I used the Borgeson pump also. The lines are a pain. I used a crows foot and a long ext. to tighten the fittings to the box.(power brake booster in the way). The reniforced hose for a return line is a pain to get on the pump. I put in on the pump before install. Hope this helps Rick

I was able to drive the stang today. steering was great. Love the stock steering radius. I couldn't drive very far because I have an issue of a miss at about 3000rpm. I thought that it might be the altenator but no luck. I have a mild 351w with a new summit 750 carb. It has a old duraspark dizzy. I'm thinking that this may be the problem. I have ordered new wires and a new dizzy. Hopefully this will solve my problem. I purchased my steering parts thru CJ pony parts when they had a sale. So far so good on the steering. Rick

I got my stang back from alignment shop on tuesday and drove it home 30 miles. Steering seemed to be very good tracked very well. It is not like my Honda Civic but not too bad. Much better than manual steering better turning radius than the Taurus Rack. Been so long since the factory power steering that i'm not sure about that. No leaks and that a big plus. The altenator went out and the car was running off the battery and running very crappy. So I didn't enjoy it very much. I should be able to cruise it around this weekend and see how it goes. Rick