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Awesome...Hope to see it again, in Ripon.
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Solid progress, we can always use another SSP at Ripon. Keep it coming!
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Progress...
Hello Everyone!!
So moving right along here. I picked up my car from the mechanic 2 days ago. WOW. Now she starts with a purpose. I had as much done to the engine without actually having it rebuilt. The reason I decided not to do a full rebuild was because the compression check produced great numbers, no oil was burning and there was just no negative signs. I did tell the mechanic to advise me if he felt something may need to be changed or if and when they did get in there it looked bad then to let me know and we'd do the full rebuild. Heres a list of things changed. Every gasket, timing chain & cover, water pump, all bolts around the water pump and timing chain cover, serpentine belt, freeze plugs, motor mounts, radiator, clutch on the A/C pump, A/C pump changed over to new freon stuff, oil and filter(of course), oil cooler lines, Negative battery cable, a new oil pan because mine had a dent and had rust on it, and there may be other thing I'm forgetting. There still is some road dirt and grime around the engine bay. I'll take care of that soon. Today I pulled my speedo. No, not a tiny pair of swim shorts but the speedometer out of my car. Lol... I pulled it out because it wasn't working. When I turn the mechanism on the back the needle moves for a brief time but then there seems to be a bind which prevents the mechanism from moving. Has anyone heard of this? Is this common with Mustangs? Anyways my speedo will be off to get fixed ASAP.
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1989 NHP SSP Unit# 262(?) 2005 Ford F250 Super-Duty Lariat FX4 Powerstroke 08 F350 spring conversion, MBRP turbo back w/no cat 1976 Jeep CJ7 I love my NHP SSP |
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more progress....
Time has been on my side lately so I've been trying to get some more things done on my car. The heater core was original, to my knowledge, so I felt it was a strategic move to pull it prior to installing new carpet. I recently pulled the seats, carpet and dash to replace the heater core. I'm not in a rush so the project has not been to bad. I actually enjoy these tedious processes like pulling a dash in a Mustang. I did find a gremlin that will need to be fixed. Check out the pictures.
The new heater core doesn't have this nice brace like the old one does. OLD NEW This disaster was found under my drivers seat. Any ideas? I've done a lot of sheet metal repair work on other vehicle bodies and I'm confident I can repair this with some 16ga sheet steel. The affected areas about the size of an iPhone. What do you guys think? Whatever I end up doing it will be better than the hack job someone else has already done.
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I left the original padding for the time being. I remember reading that other members reused some of the old padding to make their new carpet fit better.
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Progress is progress. You should be able to patch that area fairly easily. 'Just another example of how hard these cars were used and abused...
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I picked up some great parts out of an 89 4cyl that was getting parted out close to my house. Talk about lucky! I picked up the dash, seat belts as well as some other little parts. The dash and seat belts are both in excellent condition for their age.
My old ones. The new ones.
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Here's the dash. The dash in my car isn't too bad but this new one is just a little bit better. You can see there are little squares or rectangles patches on this dash. I assume these are from where the PO had the Velcro strips for the dash cover.
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1989 NHP SSP Unit# 262(?) 2005 Ford F250 Super-Duty Lariat FX4 Powerstroke 08 F350 spring conversion, MBRP turbo back w/no cat 1976 Jeep CJ7 I love my NHP SSP |
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Hey what's up everyone? I can't believe it has been two years since I've posted about my car. Wow. Time flies. In the time since I last posted a lot has happened to my car. How do I begin to get all of this adventure down here? I guess I'll just start throwing things down and see how it lays out.
2015
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1989 NHP SSP Unit# 262(?) 2005 Ford F250 Super-Duty Lariat FX4 Powerstroke 08 F350 spring conversion, MBRP turbo back w/no cat 1976 Jeep CJ7 I love my NHP SSP |
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Sounds great!!! But we need pictures
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Gathering; Collecting & Documenting GSP History... 1983 GSP#3083 Capt. C. Stallings #99 Post 41 1988 GSP#8292 Trpr R. Wilcox #799 Post 27; ACE wrecked in service with 24k miles; most documented & lowest mileage GSP 1990 GSP#0196 Trpr P. Kirkpatrick #756 Post 29 1992 GSP#2221 Trpr M. Prince #895 Post 9; “1 of 6” LoJack GSP Mustangs |
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