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General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: good2win22 on February 21 2018, 09:52:27 PM
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1966 Ford Ranch Wagon. 57k miles. 289 two barrel. Three on the tree with overdrive. Sold new on 10 December 1965 at Bock Ford in New Braunfels, Texas. It sat out for a while, thus the patina. Pulled the tank and cleaned it out. Put a kit in the carb and the old girl fired up. Installed new wheel cylinders in all four corners and now it stops. Had to clean the points on the overdrive what I call "governor" and the over drive now works. All the lights function minus the dash lights. Haven't figured out what's going on with the horn yet, it doesn't work. Man, this thing is a highway cruiser!
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Sounds great to me!
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file would not open for me...damn it! As I recall, that was a good looking wagon :) Yep, Google says it was/is!
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I have tried several different sizes of the pic to load with no luck. I guess I need to figure out how Rich is doing it
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Send em. I'll get em up. Makes me feel useful. Haha
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Still can’t upload pics from iPhone or IPad. Sending pics to Rich
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Ranch wagon... Got the exhaust fab’d up and installed with an old school set of glass packs. Got the brakes bled and car stops pretty decent for drums in all four corners. Father in law helped me pull the bumpers, trim and interior. Dropped the seats at upholstery shop. Same guy that did the wagoneer seats. Dropped the car off at the body shop.
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I like some long roof. Gonna be cool.
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Some update pics
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More pics
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Car is currently at Freddy's glass in Waco getting a windshield
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it's looking really nice!
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yes sir it is looking nice many man hours spent sanding all that square footage
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Sloppy Mechanics junkyard 6 litre with a chinese turbo?
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Sloppy Mechanics junkyard 6 litre with a chinese turbo?
Maybe... was thinking about putting that 429 together that's been sitting in the barn. For now, going to get it all put back together and cruise the little 289
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Very nice. Toss a China turbo on the 429 with a Holley Super Sniper EFI kit. Boom... done. Gain all the extra cool points.
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Picked the seats up from the Upholstry shop. Same guy that did my Wagoneer seats did these. Turned out really nice! Pay no attention to the flies...
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Nice!
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Almost 3 months after paint, Freddy's glass in Waco finally found a front windshield. Anyway, finally back to the house
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it looks really nice!
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Turned out great! :cheers: Nice to see someone bringing the old vehicles back to life! :cool;
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Polishing an reinstalling trim pieces.
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those came out great!
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Looks really nice
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Nice Work Jason !
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Been piddling in the barn when I get a chance. Blasting interior parts for the wagon. Sanding and painting as well. Got the rear interior floor back in the wagon today. Still have a "few" pieces to go...
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Looking Good !!! Love the ol wagons.. Dad had a new Ford wagon on every other year from 1956 to 64. Then he went to Vans.
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Worked some more today on the interior. Rear carpet went down nicely but the front required lots of finessing. Put the back seat in just to have a glimps of the finish line
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Nice. Did you have to slit it or did it come that way?
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Nice. Did you have to slit it or did it come that way?
I cut it so it would lay down. Instructions even said so. I guess I do read instrutions
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Looks real nice!
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Minus the headliner and overhauling the dash, the interior is complete. Managed to polish up and install most of the front end.
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I wonder if knead-able epoxy would fill that gap in the steering wheel and hold up
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Headliner is in
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That looks really nice!
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Thanks! I will pay someone to do it next time
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My son found a guy working out of a storage building that recovered his seats. His wagon did not have a headliner in it. Had the bows but not the backing. There are no wagon headliners for old Chrysler products available so the guy tried to make one but it would not hold the shape. In the end, he apparently glued it to the metal which does not look as nice as factory, but, it looks a lot better than it did with nothing up there. Seat covers came out very nice.
Headliners can be pretty easy, or they can be really tough. Wagons are never going to be easy due to the size, if nothing else
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Lookin' Good! :cheers:
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Been wheel window shopping... I kind of like these
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How big are you gonna go? Or how big will fit? I'm guessing the wagon will hold a pretty big wheel.
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I was thinking 18's. Not too big and not too much wheel
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17-18" is a pretty good size these days. You can get modern tires and they don't look like wagon wheels or donks
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Swapped the manual brake cylinder for a power assisted one. Swapped out the fron drums for discs. Cleaned and installed new wheel cylinders, new shoes and new drums on the rear. That should be able to stop this boat a little easier
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That not only looks good, it should work really well. I had a '66 Fairlane GTA and at 70 mph, the brakes would fade and quit working about the time it had slowed down to 50 mph. There was no fast stopping until I installed some semi-metallic shoes used on taxi cabs.
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Wheels and tires went on today. Ended up going with a set of American racing torq-thrust with the matte gray on the spokes as the us mags wheel I chose was backordered. I think it set the car off nice and I'm very pleased. Drove the car this afternoon around town for the first time since March or April, I can't remember.
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Very sharply dressed!
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Damn that looks nice
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being old, I like the Torque thrusts! :D What diameter are they?
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Thanks fella's!
These are 18's
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they look just right!
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nice Ranch Wagon!