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1965 Mustang Snowback: Rear frame rails and inner wheel wells
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A blog of my pursuit to restore a Fastback found under the snow. Saturday, February 28, 2015. Rear frame rails and inner wheel wells. I've been a bit lazy with the blog lately due to many private reasons. In spring I was not lazy with project Snowback so here is a belated update of what was done in February. The cut-out revealed the badly rusted outer wheel house and the inner wheel house which was not that bad but was pitted in the area where it attaches to the trunk floor flange. My spare part supplier.
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1965 Mustang Snowback: Seat platforms lowered
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A blog of my pursuit to restore a Fastback found under the snow. Wednesday, February 4, 2015. I appreciate good seats in the car I drive. Modern cars usually have reasonably good seats but very often they are designed so that short people are able to move towards the steering wheel. The seats can be yanked up and down and most of the people are satisfied but it is very seldom that you find a perfect. The rear flanges cut off. Fitting. Masking tape shows where to cut and bend. Once done with welding I mea...
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1965 Mustang Snowback: January 2014
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A blog of my pursuit to restore a Fastback found under the snow. Saturday, January 25, 2014. What did I get for the money. One day a friend of mine saw this on his way to local speed shop nearby where we live. He soon noticed that he had found something I had searched for a long time and called me. Once I saw the car I knew he had it right and I would be the next owner of it. First encounters with the Snowback. Where is she from. VIN and door data plate decoded. 2 2 Fastback, Standard Interior. In additi...
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1965 Mustang Snowback: October 2014
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A blog of my pursuit to restore a Fastback found under the snow. Sunday, October 26, 2014. Firewall and fender aprons. To fix the firewall outer ends with partial firewall outer ends. You need to remove the rear fender aprons. The rear fender aprons are spot welded to the shock towers, frame rails and to firewall. Before the removal of the old passenger side apron (date code 10 10D2. And another 10 6 3D. I do not yet have the apron bracket which connects the apron to cowl panel so I proceeded and repeate...
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1965 Mustang Snowback: July 2014
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A blog of my pursuit to restore a Fastback found under the snow. Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Hurst Competition Plus shifter rebuild. The Toploader gearbox came equipped with a aftermarket Hurst Competition Plus shifter. It was dirty and all the grease inside looked like "stoned". It was hard to shift gears, especially to engage reverse. The linkage threads were rusted and most of the linkage bushings were broken or lost. I took some pictures of the disassembly to have reference when assembling. The thin plat...
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1965 Mustang Snowback: December 2014
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A blog of my pursuit to restore a Fastback found under the snow. Tuesday, December 30, 2014. With the toe boards welded I was able to move rearwards to the floor pans. But until they would be installed, the subframe connectors. Would be designed, manufactured and installed first. I ended up with designing them myself as I wanted them to look like they were part of original structure, instead of bolted on later. I later found BuckeyDemon's thread. Sketching the shape of the connector. The front end was th...
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1965 Mustang Snowback: November 2014
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A blog of my pursuit to restore a Fastback found under the snow. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Little this and that has been done to finish the engine bay and front end of the vehicle. The right hand side front fender apron behind the battery tray was replaced. The new replacement panel is made in Taiwan ,. Front supported by the tube. To make the aprons more solid with the cowl I welded in the fender apron brackets. Driver side apron bracket. Passenger side got a new bracket. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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1965 Mustang Snowback: How to remove door internals
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A blog of my pursuit to restore a Fastback found under the snow. Friday, January 30, 2015. How to remove door internals. I've done this a couple of times before but anyhow it was challenging to recall the correct order of disassembling the doors so this time I decided to to document the process for future. The main order in the disassemble is to work from front to rear. So that the vent window comes out first and the locking system comes out last. So here is how I did it. Unscrew the window crank limiters.
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1965 Mustang Snowback: September 2014
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A blog of my pursuit to restore a Fastback found under the snow. Sunday, September 14, 2014. As a follow-up of the reconditioning of the Toploader. And the Hurst shifter. The shifter needed to be attached to the gearbox and have the shift shafts adjusted. A new set of Hurst Pit Pack with steel shifter bushings and spring clips was available, purchased and the shafts attached with new bushings. Shift shafts with new bushings and clips. Shifter aligned with the 8 mm bar. The bushing was greased. All the fo...
