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    JayEstes reacted to dream car in Radiator drain solution?   
    Dont know what size you need. found this on Amazon for $2.52  search- Dorman 61106 drain cock
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    JayEstes reacted to aslanefe in Radiator drain solution?   
    I cut a plastic water or soda bottle like a funnel, drill 2 holes and tie a wire then attach it to the drain and direct the end of make shift funnel to a bucket or catch pan.
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    JayEstes reacted to stangs-R-me in Radiator drain solution?   
    This style petcock that I've got on my radiator allows you to slip a piece of hose over it ... if you can find this style somewhere.
     
     

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    JayEstes reacted to Caseyrhe in Front seat latch   
    Just pm me your address and I’ll send it to you. To me it’s about helping someone out and getting another Stang completed
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    JayEstes reacted to Midlife in Kudos To Randy At MidLife   
    The nut behind the steering wheel?  Tee hee.
     
    Thanks for the kind words.
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    JayEstes reacted to Vicfreg in Inside of door panel. Is this sound proofing?   
    After carefully scraping off the loose stuff, I put my DynaMat right over that stuff.
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    JayEstes reacted to RPM in Kudos To Randy At MidLife   
    I've been trying to diagnose an erratic voltage gauge for a few weeks that would fluctuate between 9 and ~14v. When I had the battery and alternator checked they passed with flying colors. So I bought a new gauge, and experienced the same issues. Figured it had to be electrical, and probably a bad ground so I checked and found they were good. I also checked the 12v source to the gauge as far as I could.
    At 65 with a bad neck, back, eyes, and certainly attitude I was ready to give up. Then I membered I had Randy's number and maybe ought to call him. After a couple of questions he nailed it. Since I looove to crawl under the dash, I had reached under the dash to snap a pic of the fuse box, but didn't look closely at the pic. While troubleshooting with Randy he mentioned the accessory post on the fuse box. I looked at the pic, oops...a loose terminal on the stud. Erectricity 101.
    Thanks MidLife.
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    JayEstes reacted to Midlife in Wheel size and offset questions   
    In the center console cup holders, of course!  Oh, and under the seat when the car with the flashing blue lights follows you.
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    JayEstes reacted to cst in What do you guys do to the underside of your mustangs?   
    DP90 followed up with Monstaliner rolled on Dark Gray


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    JayEstes reacted to fvike in What do you guys do to the underside of your mustangs?   
    U-Pol Raptor bedliner.

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    JayEstes reacted to ronandmelady in 70 coupe electrical issues   
    08 GT500 that I've KR cloned.  12k miles, FP TVS swapped, FR twin 65 TB, 3:73 gears.  My rocket ship.     

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    JayEstes got a reaction from lalojamesliz in Best way to prep interior for new paint   
    When I did my rebuild, I pulled out all carpet, seats, belts - everything I could unbolt.  After vacuuming and just cleaning it with usual stuff, I didn't have a lot of rust to deal with.  But there was a lot of seam sealer (which is like a semi-hardened tar that has body paint on most of it) around.  I didn't want to sand everything off and besides, a lot of the paint was in decent shape - why remove it?
    So what I did was the following: I got a 1in putty knife, some really tough PVC gloves, some scotchbrite pads, and a 5 gallon bucket of "clean-up thinner" (Laquer Thinner) from a local paint supply store.  After getting dirt off and isolating areas of rust, I used the putty knife to remove most of the seam sealer (60-70%% of which was either flaking off, or sticking to things it shouldn't be). Then, I used the scotchbrite dipped in a small bowl of thinner, to clean areas where the sealer had been removed and clean and rough up the painted areas.  Laquer thinner will remove the paint if allowed to stay on there very long, so I used it lightly, and would clean the surface, and rough it up with the scotchbrite, and immediately wipe it off with a rag so it didn't wrinkle the remaining paint/primer.  This left a really clean, primer ready surface.  This worked great for getting the remaining seam sealer off, and it got the paint prepped to receive primer over the top, leaving the good original paint/primer in place.  The use of a scotchbrite pad soaked in laquer thinner is the most effective cleaner I have ever seen, it cuts thru everything (oil/ grease, dirt grime, paint).  It is pure hell on gloves and hands, so get a couple pair of gloves as even a pair of PVC gloves will harden after several sessions of use. Obvious caveats go with this process for respirators and fans.  Laquer thinner is a strong chemical.
    After that, I just resealed the seams with orderly beads of paintable silicon caulk, and then I used rattle can automotive primer over everything.  Making damn sure not to paint over anything resembling rust or its semi-hidden effects.  I always ground any of that down and put the primer on bare metal once rust was gone.  
    I put on at least 2 coats of primer everywhere, then put down dyna-mat for sound deadening everywhere.  This was a fairly long process,  but a lot better than trying to remove everything (remember, in my case most of the floor was in good shape).  The floor looked great after this, and I think it was a nice medium restore option that left good parts of the car in place, but re-did everything else as best I could.   Trying to remove everything with anything less than a full-body dip is a ton more work than it is worth.
    Hope this addresses your question, and you find some of these tips helpful.  It wasn't super fast, but I was really happy with the results, and I felt like the effort was focused where it was needed.
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    JayEstes reacted to Caseyrhe in A/C Lower Dash Vent Ball Rebuild   
    Front, without touching rivets. Control ball has to be turned as if to stop flow
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    JayEstes got a reaction from Mach1 Driver in Best way to prep interior for new paint   
    When I did my rebuild, I pulled out all carpet, seats, belts - everything I could unbolt.  After vacuuming and just cleaning it with usual stuff, I didn't have a lot of rust to deal with.  But there was a lot of seam sealer (which is like a semi-hardened tar that has body paint on most of it) around.  I didn't want to sand everything off and besides, a lot of the paint was in decent shape - why remove it?
    So what I did was the following: I got a 1in putty knife, some really tough PVC gloves, some scotchbrite pads, and a 5 gallon bucket of "clean-up thinner" (Laquer Thinner) from a local paint supply store.  After getting dirt off and isolating areas of rust, I used the putty knife to remove most of the seam sealer (60-70%% of which was either flaking off, or sticking to things it shouldn't be). Then, I used the scotchbrite dipped in a small bowl of thinner, to clean areas where the sealer had been removed and clean and rough up the painted areas.  Laquer thinner will remove the paint if allowed to stay on there very long, so I used it lightly, and would clean the surface, and rough it up with the scotchbrite, and immediately wipe it off with a rag so it didn't wrinkle the remaining paint/primer.  This left a really clean, primer ready surface.  This worked great for getting the remaining seam sealer off, and it got the paint prepped to receive primer over the top, leaving the good original paint/primer in place.  The use of a scotchbrite pad soaked in laquer thinner is the most effective cleaner I have ever seen, it cuts thru everything (oil/ grease, dirt grime, paint).  It is pure hell on gloves and hands, so get a couple pair of gloves as even a pair of PVC gloves will harden after several sessions of use. Obvious caveats go with this process for respirators and fans.  Laquer thinner is a strong chemical.
    After that, I just resealed the seams with orderly beads of paintable silicon caulk, and then I used rattle can automotive primer over everything.  Making damn sure not to paint over anything resembling rust or its semi-hidden effects.  I always ground any of that down and put the primer on bare metal once rust was gone.  
    I put on at least 2 coats of primer everywhere, then put down dyna-mat for sound deadening everywhere.  This was a fairly long process,  but a lot better than trying to remove everything (remember, in my case most of the floor was in good shape).  The floor looked great after this, and I think it was a nice medium restore option that left good parts of the car in place, but re-did everything else as best I could.   Trying to remove everything with anything less than a full-body dip is a ton more work than it is worth.
    Hope this addresses your question, and you find some of these tips helpful.  It wasn't super fast, but I was really happy with the results, and I felt like the effort was focused where it was needed.
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    JayEstes reacted to mustangstofear in Is anyone out there?   
    Everyone is out buying assault weapons  :)
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    JayEstes got a reaction from bigmal in A/C Lower Dash Vent Ball Rebuild   
    okay one caution - maybe the other guys didn't have the problem I did, but I ground off the rivets (which are steel I believe) - no problem.  then I cleaned and prepped everything and put in the velcro - no problem.  However, the housings that the rivets were inserted into are pot metal (very soft) much softer than the steel rivets.  So when I went to drill them out and tap for new screws, my drill slid off the center of the steel rivet and went down into the soft pot-metal.  This caused them to be misaligned a little, and it was less than satisfying (thats what she said).
    perhaps if I had drilled out the rivets all the way down instead of grinding initially, everything woulda been groovy.  Anyway - don't just grind off the heads - drill out the steel rivets while you can - right up front of the activity.
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    JayEstes got a reaction from RPM in A/C Lower Dash Vent Ball Rebuild   
    okay one caution - maybe the other guys didn't have the problem I did, but I ground off the rivets (which are steel I believe) - no problem.  then I cleaned and prepped everything and put in the velcro - no problem.  However, the housings that the rivets were inserted into are pot metal (very soft) much softer than the steel rivets.  So when I went to drill them out and tap for new screws, my drill slid off the center of the steel rivet and went down into the soft pot-metal.  This caused them to be misaligned a little, and it was less than satisfying (thats what she said).
    perhaps if I had drilled out the rivets all the way down instead of grinding initially, everything woulda been groovy.  Anyway - don't just grind off the heads - drill out the steel rivets while you can - right up front of the activity.
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    JayEstes reacted to Midlife in A/C Lower Dash Vent Ball Rebuild   
    What fun is that?
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    JayEstes reacted to mustangstofear in Mustang Girls Calendar Rumors?   
    We will have a 2021 MTF calendar,  soryy no girls included  LOL.
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    JayEstes reacted to mustangstofear in So Kamela and Joe...   
    It's not over yet, God's still in control. 
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    JayEstes reacted to 1969vert in Stripes for a coupe?   
    here is my vert..nothing on the side.. a little  narrower and tighter than the 70.
    I do think the scoop helps a lot.

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    JayEstes reacted to 1969vert in Stripes for a coupe?   
    how about 428 style on the hood.. and boss type down the side... did this a few years ago

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    JayEstes got a reaction from stangs-R-me in Floor replacment   
    Ya know, that just makes all us original floor guys jealous... Could you try to be less obvious about how much better that is?  Really, it's not making my life any better... ;-)  I busted my ass to get my half-ass, sort of ok, patchy-weldy floor into the "acceptable" range.
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    JayEstes reacted to newstang in Floor replacment   
    dont feel bad, for my convertible i had to do it in pieces after making a jig.  

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    JayEstes got a reaction from bigmal in Floor replacment   
    Ya know, that just makes all us original floor guys jealous... Could you try to be less obvious about how much better that is?  Really, it's not making my life any better... ;-)  I busted my ass to get my half-ass, sort of ok, patchy-weldy floor into the "acceptable" range.
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