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Topic: 74 ranchero conversion
Posted By: Dmarc28
Subject: 74 ranchero conversion
Date Posted: 01-April-2018 at 5:48PM
Hey everyone, i hope you are all doing well. 

Iam new. Posted in the welcome mat area. I bought a 1974 ranchero 500 back in 1997 when I was 14 for 900 bucks from the junkyard. Body was really straight and it had a salvaged title, no big deal though. Around 8 years ago I swapped the front clip with a 72 donor ranchero I found. Ive recently been working on a 4 speed swap and am almost done or at least I hope so, haha. some of the things I have left to do are:

Clutch fork-just about done with this
Driveshaft
Output shaft yoke
Speedo gear
Cut a hole in the trans tunnel- plan on doing this Monday April 2nd. 

If anyone has any insight into the speedo gear I would appreciate it. The original one that pulled out of the FMX that was in the car is obvisiouly from an automatic. Do i need to get a different one for a Manual Transmission?

Here are some pictures of what I have been able to do to my car over the many many years I have had it. It is not much but it is something. 

these are pics of the front end conversion. i cant fint the pics i have of cutting an welding the frame bumper brackets up to my car. 
my orginal front end

donor 72

my buddy helping me sand it down to primer it. 

all sanded

getting primered

all finished. my car in the background getting ready to pull the clip off.


mind you guys i did this bout ten+ years ago.  tomorrow ill get some pics of the clip on it. when i get back to working on the trans swap.  couple last pics are of my sister and i and my dads 72GTS that rick has now. 


this picture of my sister and i is the night before it was to be loaded up and sent to N.Y. 




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Posted By: 72GTS351CJ
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 2:48AM
Is that your dad in the background wishing me and his car good fortune in N.Y.? Lol

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Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 4:13AM
Haha, yeah. Acting a goof back there. I hadn't noticed that for a long time. Haha.


Posted By: Rockatansky
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 5:10AM
toploader 4 speed uses an opposite rotation driven gear and an extra long cable to reach to the passenger side of the tail housing


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Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 6:41AM
Copy that Rockatansky. I will continue to look into finding a cable an gear. If you possibly know part numbers that'd be awesome. Again thanks for the info.


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 2:33PM
4/2/18, today's progress well kinda. Also pics with the 72 clip on.







Hoods open.thats why it looks "not" closed
The clutch fork spring repair kit. Found a fork that will work, but it had a wire. So I ordered the spring repair kit. Tomorrow I'm going to try and have my buddy tac it in place on the fork.

Trans hump was all bent up. After some gentle hammer massaging I got it to fit kinda nice.
Then I held my breathe and cut the floor.
Primered the hump and used these screw type rivet things to secure it. .
Tomorrow everything else. Haha.

More pics to come.thanks for the help and encouragement.


Posted By: 72GTS351CJ
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 2:49PM
Nice job on the front clip. Looks great!!

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72GTS Clint Eastwood Special                                     


Posted By: 72FordGTS
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 2:52PM
Nice work!  I am in the process of removing my front clip to detail the engine compartment and the frame.  Cool car and thanks for sharing the history.

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Vince

1972 Ford GTS Sportsroof - Survivor, One Family car

GTS.org Admin


Posted By: californiajohnny
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 4:32PM
Clap looks good! that's a 74... does it have that stupid seatbelt interlock system? my 74 did but i fixed that Wink


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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE
74 VETTE CUSTOM
90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED
77 CELICA CUSTOM
75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED
79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED
75 VEGA V6 5 SPD
70 CHEV C10 P/U
68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 5:07PM
Yeah it's a 74.
I have no idea what the seatbelt interlock system is, haha.
I know some rides had a seatbelt buzzer thing. But mine never made any noise.
Plus I never really used them when I drove. I figured that if I got in an accident I would rather not be paralysed because the lap belt popped my spinal cord. But again that was when I was 18 and idgaf, haha.
Now I'd rather stay alive.


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 5:17PM
Originally posted by 72GTS351CJ 72GTS351CJ wrote:

Nice job on the front clip. Looks great!!


Thanks Rick. Can't wait to get it back and running again.


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 5:17PM
Originally posted by 72FordGTS 72FordGTS wrote:


Nice work!  I am in the process of removing my front clip to detail the engine compartment and the frame.  Cool car and thanks for sharing the history.


Thanks for taking the time to read this and check it out.


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 02-April-2018 at 7:07PM
Hey fellas I gave a question.
My toploader is a late 60's date code. Question is regarding the speeding cable.
Do I buy a manual cable for a 72-74 torino/ranchero and hope the gear drive fits in the toploader.
Or do i get a manual cable with a gear that fits the toploader n hope it connects to the back of my 74 speedo?


Posted By: changinlatitudes
Date Posted: 03-April-2018 at 12:30AM
Good job on that front end change! Keep us updated on how it's coming along. What color are you going to paint her?



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Matt

1969 Mercury Marauder 390
1972 Montego MX
2003 Mercury Marauder 300A
1994 F-150 5.8
2016 Ford Fusion Titanium


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 03-April-2018 at 4:06AM
Thanks appreciate it.
Paint probably won't be for a long long time.
I have bigger plans for it after I get the trans swap done.
Want to get it running and driving. Then rebuild the engine with boss heads I have and update the valve train.
Then do a disc brake conversation on the rear end. I have a complete 76 linclon disc break rearend and nodular 9in 3rd member and a set of 325 gears. When time comes I'll send that out to get rebuilt then plug that in.
I want to put airride in it as well. The "Bagman" has a shop down the street from my house.
In a sense I want to get it to be a running and driving "mock up" of what I want the final thing to be.
Thhheeennnn when all that happens, I'll do a BB upgrade(boss 429) and BB toploader upgrade. Once everything is done done I want to paint it this color.

With a set of chrome american torque thrust wheels, bumpers chromed, bed trim either chromed or polished, while keeping the sides clean and smooth. I think it would look nice. But everyone's taste is different.

Long explanation but it's been 20 yrs in the making, so I know what I want, haha. Jus time and money in the way.


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 03-April-2018 at 7:27AM
Question guys.
I ordered the manual trans speedo cable, it didn't come with the gear drive. Can I reuse the gear from my stock one? Or do I have to get a manual trans gear as well?
Thanks guys.


Posted By: Rockatansky
Date Posted: 03-April-2018 at 8:34AM
the driven gear needs to be compatible with the transmission, depending upon which side of the tail housing the speedo bullet goes into. the passenger side speedo gears are made for opposite rotation from those that go in on the drivers side. and of course the tooth count will determine speedo accuracy

i think you're gonna have to go back & revisit trimming the hole in the floor, the shifter sits off to the side of the trans,
that's why the hump patch covers the drivers side of the tunnel


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72 GT Ute
   


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 03-April-2018 at 2:02PM
Today's semi progress 4/3/18.



Was able to get my clutch fork spring welded this morning. That enabled me to get the tranny bolted up.

Then I connected the shifter and linkage. But had to cut a little more of the tunnel. Was able to secure the hump.

Then I moved to the clutch linkage. I had to shim the trans side pivot because the Lakewood bell housing is a lot thinner then the stock bell. If I didn't shim it the z-bar would have been at a gnarly angle. Definitely didn't want that.
I then had to modify the hardware for the fork pushrod and customize that tiny spring as well as the pushrod. I know it looks extremely tiny but after videoing push upon push upon push of the clutch pedal and analizing it plus the feel of the pedal travel I feel confident enough it will work.

Any insight/advice would be greatly appreciated guys.

Also I want to say I ran across a thread a while ago about starters. Skimming through it I read manual and automation starters are different. Said something about the nose piece being longer on one or the other. Since I'm going from automatic with stock bell to a manual with safety bell does anyone have a recommendation of starter that would work best. I'm using a 164 tooth flywheel.

I want to say I also read that a stock windsor starter for a manual could work.
Again fellas any help would be appreciated.

More to come.


Posted By: torinojon
Date Posted: 03-April-2018 at 2:45PM
is that the C8AA-B clutch fork.when i did that same bell housing into my  1969 mach it lined up like factory.that fork looks like a 351m truck fork.....

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Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 03-April-2018 at 2:56PM
I'm not sure what the part number is of the fork. I cleaned it and didn't see anything.

I got it from a place called all Ford, it's a Ford scrap yard. I showed him this picture:
And asked home for anything close to the bottom fork.
The top one is the type I got from McLeod and had to take back because it was too short.

The fork I'm using is what they found. But is not the same part number as the one in the picture.


Posted By: torinojon
Date Posted: 03-April-2018 at 2:57PM
i bet thats a 351 m truck clutch fork.the truck fork is 1" shorter then the torino 351 fork.thats why you need the spacer and the angle for the rod is off.i got both and it looks like the 351m truck fork.it might work but thats why you have to do what you have to do to make it work....

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Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 03-April-2018 at 3:03PM
I think so too.
I need to find a reasonably priced fork with the part number you shared. They jus seem to be few and far between, plus pricy.


Posted By: torinojon
Date Posted: 03-April-2018 at 3:08PM
theres one on ebay thats not perfect but can be fixed for like 70.00....... http://www.ebay.com/itm/71-72-73-MUSTANG-BOSS-351-MACH-1-CLUTCH-FORK-C8AA-7515-B/253533570343?hash=item3b07c74527:g:xccAAOSwlJlawMk8&vxp=mtr" rel="nofollow - www.ebay.com/itm/71-72-73-MUSTANG-BOSS-351-MACH-1-CLUTCH-FORK-C8AA-7515-B/253533570343?hash=item3b07c74527:g:xccAAOSwlJlawMk8&vxp=mtr

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Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 03-April-2018 at 6:07PM
You the man torinojon.

Part is ordered. Thanks for help brother.


Posted By: torinojon
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 3:31AM
just so you no that is not me or do i have anything to do with that guy/part.....

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Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 4:19AM
Ok. I still really appreciate the help. I was only able to find ones that were a few hundred dollars.


Posted By: torinojon
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 10:24AM
let me no when you get it in and do a side pic of it.ill tell you for shore what it is.the top looks like its what you needC8AA-B.ill try to do a pic of my lower rod that im doing on my cars.im using a hime-joint on the lower rod so theres no bushing and no metal on metal where it meets the lower z-bar arm..... 

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Posted By: californiajohnny
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 2:09PM
that heim joint is a damn good idea Big smile


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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE
74 VETTE CUSTOM
90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED
77 CELICA CUSTOM
75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED
79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED
75 VEGA V6 5 SPD
70 CHEV C10 P/U
68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 2:31PM
Todays profress. 4/4/18
Driveshaft/starter day. No pics though sorry.

Have my stock driveshaft with heavy duty u joints and yokes (31 spline I think). Then I have a diveshaft out of a 70's mustang, 28 spline and tiny yoke and u joints.
Took them to my drive shaft guy who, hopingly by Friday, will have a driveshaft for me to put in.
I also got an OEM type starter for a 70's mustang. Bolted it up and was praying to hear the car crank without any horrible grinding noises. Success, the car cranked smoothly. So I put the new spark plugs in and tried again. after a few cranks it started right up. But I quickly shut it off because I don't have my exhaust bolted up. So it was jus popping and spitting outta the manifold.
Also speedo cable came in today n hopefully tomorrow I'll get my left hand drive speedo gear set.
With to the FMX I had a 18t gear. Soooo I'm hoping an 18 tooth will be good for the toploader. If not I'll have a 17,19,20 to try.


T.J. you got it brother. When the fork gets here I'll take a pic of it.
C.J. I was thinking about doing that too when my correct fork gets here and everything lines up how it should be.


Posted By: 72GTS351CJ
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 2:35PM
Making great progress!!!

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72GTS Clint Eastwood Special                                     


Posted By: Rockatansky
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 2:43PM
Originally posted by Dmarc28 Dmarc28 wrote:

Todays profress. 4/4/18
hopefully tomorrow I'll get my left hand drive speedo gear set.


toploader speedo on the left / drivers side?


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72 GT Ute
   


Posted By: 75GranMan
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 2:50PM
The manual trans starter from a small block whether a 302/351c/351w will work. The speedo cable for a c6 automatic is the same as the 72-73 4spd Torino. The choice of speedo gears (both drive and driven) are different for the axle ratio you plan on using. I'm assuming you have a passenger side cable entry on your Trans, I believe there was a few drivers side cable manual trans that ford had...In what models I don't recall. I wouldn't have welded the spring steel clip that retains the arm to the bell housing but that's just my opinion.

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Tighten it down until it snaps and then back it off a half turn!


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 5:44PM
Originally posted by Rockatansky Rockatansky wrote:

Originally posted by Dmarc28 Dmarc28 wrote:

Todays profress. 4/4/18
hopefully tomorrow I'll get my left hand drive speedo gear set.


toploader speedo on the left / drivers side?


No my speedo input is on the passenger side. I spent a few houses last night looking the gears up. While making sure I got the correct "drive".
I figured left hand drive was having the input on the driver side but that was not the case with all of the things I found.


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 6:05PM
Originally posted by 75GranMan 75GranMan wrote:

The manual trans starter from a small block whether a 302/351c/351w will work. The speedo cable for a c6 automatic is the same as the 72-73 4spd Torino. The choice of speedo gears (both drive and driven) are different for the axle ratio you plan on using. I'm assuming you have a passenger side cable entry on your Trans, I believe there was a few drivers side cable manual trans that ford had...In what models I don't recall. I wouldn't have welded the spring steel clip that retains the arm to the bell housing but that's just my opinion.

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I think I had found a write up either here or on some vintage mustang forum in which they provided me with the same starter info. So talked to my parts guy and stressed that I needed a starter for a manual. Got one and it worked like a charm.

Yeah my speedo input is on the passenger side. The new cable I received is for a manual transmission. The gear set I ordered should be here Friday.

....go with me on this, as far as choosing a speedo cable gear....

I'm not changing anything except the transmission. My toploader has the black 7t drive gear. Now if my stock fmx has/had the same drive gear with an 18t driven gear, would I be able to use a 18t left hand drive gear in my toploader?

Outta curiosity why wouldn't you have welded the clip to the fork?


Posted By: californiajohnny
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 6:15PM
i believe the passenger side speedo is an opposite rotation gear??? but if you count the gear teeth on the original trans and your 4 sp if they are the same you should be able to use the same tooth count for the new gear...assuming the speedo was reading correct before? but may be a good place to start...


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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE
74 VETTE CUSTOM
90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED
77 CELICA CUSTOM
75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED
79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED
75 VEGA V6 5 SPD
70 CHEV C10 P/U
68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 6:31PM
Aight CJ, I'm going to check it out. Then make sure I can use to the same number of teeth with the correct passenger side toploader speedo gear.


Posted By: californiajohnny
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 7:25PM
yeah when i swapped from an FMX to an AOD  one had a 8T gear machined into the output shaft the other had a 7T to get the ratio correct i needed a 14T driven gear which they don't make!!! so i ended up going with a ratio adapter and a new custom cable Confused but it worked Wink


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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE
74 VETTE CUSTOM
90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED
77 CELICA CUSTOM
75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED
79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED
75 VEGA V6 5 SPD
70 CHEV C10 P/U
68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 04-April-2018 at 7:38PM
Originally posted by californiajohnny californiajohnny wrote:

yeah when i swapped from an FMX to an AOD  one had a 8T gear machined into the output shaft the other had a 7T to get the ratio correct i needed a 14T driven gear which they don't make!!! so i ended up going with a ratio adapter and a new custom cable Confused but it worked Wink


Dang, lotta work?

After doing this swap I'm so amazed at how much stuff I didn't have and needed to get. You don't know what you don't know. Know what I mean?

Being an adolescent when my pops did it I always thought it was going to be get pedals, tranny, linkage and put it in. I think that's because he had a direct swap. He did it in a weekend.
I been at it for a month it so haha, obviously soooooo not the case for me.
But I definitely have a lot more respect for people who are able and capable to do it on their own.


Posted By: Rockatansky
Date Posted: 05-April-2018 at 6:50AM
driven gear being the same will depend upon if the output shaft tooth count for each trans is the same, i know in C6's there are 3 different output shaft tooth counts and 1 of them is impossible to correct to car use because there's no driven gear made with that many teeth

not 100% sure but IIRC there's at least 2 output shaft tooth counts for FMX


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Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 05-April-2018 at 6:37PM
Thanks Rockatansky. My output shaft on the FMX was 31 spline I think. But the toploader is a 28 spline.

Now for the update and todays progress 4/5/18.

With drive shaft at the shop I decided to work on getting the interior back together.
N I do not know why to the pics are upside down.


I had to put the hump over the carpet because there was not enough carpet for it to go over the hump.
That carpet is hella old too. Got it for my 17th birthday, haha.




I then got a call from the driveshaft shop. The custom shaft was ready.so I took my happy ass down there and picked it up.
Got home and put the dash cluster in so I could make sure to reroute the speedo cable.
Then while I was doing that UPS guy came with a delivery.

My speedo gears!😊.

So with that I hooked up the driveshaft, rerouted the cable, picked the 19tooth gear and put it in. Topped off the gear oil in the trans. Hooked up the exhaust and started her up.

Ran amazingly, went through some shifts and then decided to drop it down and take it for a test drive.

So that's what I did.
Took it off the stands and drive it to the gas station, my gas level isn't reading, n then cruised it around the block. Then I had my sis get in use some speedometer app to see if my reading is accurate. It was within 2/3 mph. It's coo, I drive slow anyways.


So for now I am finished. Tomorrow is clean day, haha.
Thanks for all your guys insight and help.
Next big thing I'm going to tackle is a disk break conversation. But that won't be for a while.


Posted By: californiajohnny
Date Posted: 05-April-2018 at 7:24PM
Clap awesome!
if you're within 2 or 3 MPH that's good, but at what speed did you check it at?


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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE
74 VETTE CUSTOM
90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED
77 CELICA CUSTOM
75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED
79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED
75 VEGA V6 5 SPD
70 CHEV C10 P/U
68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 05-April-2018 at 7:41PM
At 40, or at least what my speedometer said was 40.

N my sis said it was 43.


Posted By: californiajohnny
Date Posted: 06-April-2018 at 3:03AM
thats not bad then


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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE
74 VETTE CUSTOM
90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED
77 CELICA CUSTOM
75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED
79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED
75 VEGA V6 5 SPD
70 CHEV C10 P/U
68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 06-April-2018 at 4:52AM
That's what I was thinking.


Posted By: Rockatansky
Date Posted: 06-April-2018 at 7:38AM
my old trans builder bud told me each driven gear tooth is 3 mph, i've never checked that myself ... but if you happen to stumble upon a driven gear with 1 less tooth than what you have snag it & give it a try, or larger diameter rear tires will bump your mph to read higher

FWIW from the factory it's normal for the speedo to read slightly lower than actual mph


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72 GT Ute
   


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 06-April-2018 at 11:35AM
Thanks for the insight fellas.

I jus lost mph n od while driving to my pops house. So I will be checking on that.


Heres a pic of my dad's and my rancheros.

Pops is helping me with my sticky parking break.


Posted By: 72GTS351CJ
Date Posted: 06-April-2018 at 1:22PM
Wow. Dad's car is looking sharp. Does he still have the other green 72 formal?

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72GTS Clint Eastwood Special                                     


Posted By: 72GTS351CJ
Date Posted: 06-April-2018 at 1:24PM


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72GTS Clint Eastwood Special                                     


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 06-April-2018 at 1:38PM
It is Rick, but the old man doesn't drive it much. Ive been trying to get him to do Sunday morning cruises but he said he doesn't "do mornings", haha.

No he doesn't. I don't remember when he sold that one. But we talked about that today. He said it went to someone out in Germany and then that guy sold it. I loved that one and how he built it. Color, interior, wheels/tires exhaust, I thought it was awesome.

Also let the old man drive mine today. He said it brought back memories of driving "the yellow one".
Then he said he was excited get a chance to visit with you when he's out there in June or July or whenever he's out there.



Posted By: 72FordGTS
Date Posted: 06-April-2018 at 2:26PM
Those are some nice rides.  Great shot of the father son Rancheros.  Rick your care looked so different back in the day!

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Vince

1972 Ford GTS Sportsroof - Survivor, One Family car

GTS.org Admin


Posted By: 72GTS351CJ
Date Posted: 07-April-2018 at 1:33PM
Looks like it was in need of some new springs in the front

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72GTS Clint Eastwood Special                                     


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 08-April-2018 at 11:00AM
Update, 4/8/18.

So ranchero is running great. Thursday night test drive went well. Speedo, odoneter, light, shifts, steering, everything that needed to work worked.

Friday morning got up to drive to my pops house to let him check my handy work. There was a like pool of gear oil dripping out of the rear tail housing.

Then driving to catch the freeway, the speedo needle dropped. So I lost the speedo and odometer. Regardless I was able to get to my dad's for him to evaluate my 5 weeks of work. Happy to say he said it felt good to drive and took him back to when he had Rick's car.

Saturday got up and jacked the car up to check seal and speedo gears.
I think the seal might need to be replaced. I had the trans for about 2 years freshly rebuilt when I bought it. Then it just sat. So I'm thinking the rubber might have dried out. Im planning on changing it and the bushing.
Any thoughts?

Next was the speedo.the needle seemed to be jumping around hard when i was driving. Then jus stopped
I thought that might have been due to the fact the cable was twisted.
When I took the gear out it looked fine. But when I looked on the inside it was another story.
The cable insert striped out the inside if the gear.
It's hard to see but it's dust.

This is an 18t gear that I put in..
I then tried to untwist the cable so if had more of a direct path to the firewall and ddash.

Speedometer and odometer seemed to work fine all day yesterday. There was a little needle jump but nothing bad.



Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 16-April-2018 at 6:41PM
Update: 4/16/18.

Had been having some fuel problems lately. Shifting gears from 2nd into 3rd and hitting the gas the car would die like the car was starved for gas. I'd coast throw it in gear n pop the clutch she'd start back up n I'd drive less then a mile and it'd happen again.

I know there was gas in it I'd jus out 8 gallons in. So wtf was going on.

Last week I said fug it and dropped the tank. Pulled out the sending unit, original, which was hella rusted with no float!?!?

So I deduced that the float had disintegrated an along with the pick up tube being dang near rusted close it had to have been the float cloging the gas line.

Saturday rebuilt the carb.

Today I received the new sending unit also bought a solid float which I fugging misplaced. Luckily the new sending unit came with a float although it is brass like the original. Dumped out the gas that was in the tank and found the reminants of my float and screen filter thing.
Disconnected the line from the pump blew it out, reconnected. Installed the sending unit, placed the fill tube,then threw up the tank.

I have yet to add gass but I'm hoping that was my problem.



Posted By: californiajohnny
Date Posted: 16-April-2018 at 7:07PM
Shocked   wow


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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE
74 VETTE CUSTOM
90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED
77 CELICA CUSTOM
75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED
79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED
75 VEGA V6 5 SPD
70 CHEV C10 P/U
68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 17-April-2018 at 1:07PM
Originally posted by californiajohnny californiajohnny wrote:


Shocked   wow


I know right. All my buddies, older cats, had never heard of it dissolving.


Posted By: 72GTS351CJ
Date Posted: 17-April-2018 at 1:26PM
Older cats.....i love it. Is that a so.cal. thing? Sounds like your dad. I remember him sending me a few messages like that.

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72GTS Clint Eastwood Special                                     


Posted By: californiajohnny
Date Posted: 17-April-2018 at 1:58PM
idk, i'm from socal but i often use the term "dude"LOL


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JOHN
74 GRAN TORINO S&H CLONE
74 VETTE CUSTOM
90 S10 BLAZER 4X4 LIFTED
77 CELICA CUSTOM
75 V8 MONZA SUPERCHARGED
79 COURIER VERT. SLAMMED
75 VEGA V6 5 SPD
70 CHEV C10 P/U
68 MUSTANG FB CONVERSION


Posted By: Dmarc28
Date Posted: 17-April-2018 at 5:07PM
Originally posted by 72GTS351CJ 72GTS351CJ wrote:

Older cats.....i love it. Is that a so.cal. thing? Sounds like your dad. I remember him sending me a few messages like that.



Haha. Yeah might be a "smooth" So cal thing,like huggy bear, ya dig?....haha.



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