need help idenifying a bracket from 69

[1969Owner 10]

It my fault for not marking where i took stuff off, but i am putting my motor back in the car, everything is in except for this one bracket. I have no clue where it goes, i think it goes on the motor but i am not sure.

 

 

Does anyone have any ideas where it goes, or maybe have a picture reference?

[MustangChuck 16]

I'm not sure, so I am throwing out a guess. Is it the timing pointer? If so, it gets bolted above the harmonic balancer.

 

M/C

[Flanders 46]

doesn't look like the timing pointer (at least not the same as on my 351W). Doesn't look like any of the engine brackets I took off my car either, when I pulled the engine out. hmm.

[Dangstang 14]

Completly dissasemmbled and almost reassembled my 351w FB car and nothing like that

[TexasEd 191]

What engine do you have?

What accessories? (PS, AC, etc?)

 

Did you have power steering?

It looks like it might be the hose retaining bracket that goes under the engine to keep the PS hoses from sagging.

 

edit: nevermind, I looked up a picture of that bracket and I was wrong.

[1969Owner 10]

its a major head scratcher, it looks like a shield for sometihng but i dont know what.

[LindenBruce 27]

Are you SURE you removed it from your car? I don't recognize it either from my 69. It does appear to be some type of shield or guide. Bruce

[dzahm 10]

Doesn't look like any bracket on my 69 metuchen F code vert. It does look suspiciously like a timing pointer though.

[MustangChuck 16]

I also ask: Are you sure you pulled it from your car? Miscellaneous crap ends up in my boxes of parts all the time. Usually they have nothing to do with the car.

 

M/C

[SELLERSRODSHOP 13]

I also ask: Are you sure you pulled it from your car? Miscellaneous crap ends up in my boxes of parts all the time. Usually they have nothing to do with the car.

 

M/C

 

my thoughts too. i currently have my car torn down to the bare firewall/aprons up front & haven't seen anything like that & my car has been pretty well untouched, so don't think it would be anything a p.o. would have removed. my car doesn't have air, so if yours does, could be something that goes with that. also, on these cars when a piece of metal is formed into a channel, with lips on the side, it usually seats some sort of rubber insulator. e.g.: power steering lines, rad mount etc.

[manley 13]

+42

 

My car is completely disassembled and that does not look familiar.

[DRASTiK 22]

it looks as if the rectangular section that has rounded sides would allow for a wiring harness clip, or hose clip to slide onto it to keep things stationary, but I can't say that I recognize that bracket.

[1969Owner 10]

i am sure it came off the Mustang, I moved the Mustang to a different garage when i started working on it, and the only parts I have in that garage is for the Msutang.

 

I repainted that part, and it was included in the pile of my stuff that i repainted.

 

Its pretty weird that i have this bracket and others have not seen it before

 

 

I guess it doesnt hurt to keep it off.....maybe the owner before me put that bracket on.

Edited May 19, 2012 by 1969Owner

[JayEstes 172]

Any chance that thing is related to the seats, or how they attach to the car? Also wondering about brackets that hold the ends of the steel dash. Just above the vents on the kick panels up front? Just guessing. I think most of us naturally want to think exterior parts, but I'm guessing it's interior....

 

How big is it really? We may be being fooled by size in the picture....

[MAD IN NC 21]

Is there anty C9OX-XXXXXXX part number stamped anywhere on it?

[1969Owner 10]

i was playing around with the bracket

 

 

it kinda looks like it bolts to the carb, and wraps around to protect the one side from the heater hoses

 

but still a head scratcher

[cmz69 10]

I'm thinking part of dash, or around pulley component. My car's at paint, so I can't look and see. This is a brain teaser. I have after market Carb, on a car with at least two previous owners, but it does fit nicely.

[klevor 10]

Are you running the autolite carb ? Could it be some aftermarket bracket that holds heater hose that runs by the carbs choke area?

[MustangChuck 16]

I got it! It's the bracket that secures the cup holder in place! ;-)

[TexasEd 191]

Scale

 

It's a lot smaller than I thought it was.

[70mstang 11]

looks like a guard off oy my chainsaw

[fordguy69 24]

Muffler bearing stanchion support limiter.

[RPM 1,190]

Now that we have it to scale, looks to me like a horizontal screwtinator.

[PaleRider 12]

I've taken a few apart now - and have no clue. Someone may have put it on the car sometime in last 30 years but does not appear to be original. I say it goes in the spare parts bin.

[bobh67 18]

I have restored dozens of 69 mustangs both small and big block and have never seen that part before. I too would toss it into an extra parts box as I am sure at some time someone in its history some po just bolted it somewhere but as far as needing it to be apear stock I'd forget about it.