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Rockatansky
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i'm getting dizzy seems like your threads are crossed up with the conversion featuring the fork and the fork thread featuring the conversion
anyway here's a pic of the frame holes i found on a 1972 FMX automatic equipped car, i constructed quite an extension with universals to tighten my hardware from the first opportunity where the frame is open. no manual transmissions after 1973 so no pivot ball mount holes in the frame in 1974. Comet & Maverick are unibody so fasteners are not going to be the same, no comparison Edited by Rockatansky - 03-April-2018 at 3:22PM |
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72GTS351CJ
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Ahhh yes. No comparison with the comet but the point being made that if there was a nut under the bolt it would show it. So no 4 speed ranchero in 74? I guess that's why there were no holes at all in the frame
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Dmarc28
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I know the postings are all over the place, sorry.
Ok so no manual in 74. The thing is though, I had the same holes on the top of my frame jus like in the picture Rockatansky put up. But that was it, no nuts welded in them, jus the holes. That's why I opened up the bottom of the frame so I could get the hardware in and the mount bolted up to the frame. |
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Rockatansky
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so they did just leave the holes in production, 'engineers' say it's more expensive to change something than to make it right but yeah i made up an extension to hold my bolts and snake them through pointing upward through the frame then i used a thin jam nut to keep them and recreate the height of the riv-nuts. since i didn't use the riv-nuts i was able to use upsized 7/16" bolts rather than the factory size
Duh, now i get why your holes look like they're in a different place than mine |
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Dmarc28
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Yeah this picture I took was from the bottom. Actually cut out a like piece of the bottom today so I had better access to the nuts. |
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handsofstone
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Spray some paint on it before you do the install. Rustoleum is a good sealing paint that will last way beyond the next clutch.
I snapped a rusted out fork on a pickup one time. 4x4 K-20. Not an easy fix. Edited by handsofstone - 16-April-2018 at 3:19PM |
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Dmarc28
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Copy that Roberto Duran, haha. Your handle is awesome. I actually sprayed it a day or so after with some black primer. Did that with the trans tunnel cut out as well. |
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Rockatansky
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primer is not paint, i hosed my brackets & fork with Harbor Freight rattle can Black after welding the pins to the stampings. they were loose & wobbled out
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handsofstone
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Nice job. We did plenty of welding at Aamco. Lot of greasing too. The old setups would squeak like heck.
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Rockatansky
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looking at the pics i think it's Rust-O brush on
they'll get another coat before it's over |
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Dmarc28
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Ok, I'll make sure that I get some actual paint on it. I have it up in the air now. So that'll make it easier. |
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Primer is a sponge for paint.
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Got you. Sprayed it up. |
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