Slow progress
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Racer
Joined: Sep 2010
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From: Northern Ca.
Slow progress
With the whole rear end out, I replaced all three seal and cleaned some things up a bit. Cleaned the gas tank so well I found about 8 little holes in the bottom. The dirt must have kept the gas in. Just finished putting a new tank in on Sunday. Painted the diff with hammertone gray and ready to tackle the TA's. Still waiting on half shafts. Cleaned up the rear frame a little.
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Joined: Dec 2003
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From: Fremont CA
My wife drove a 66 fastback Stang to college. One cold night she commented she smelled gas from the car. The genius that I am. I crawled under to take a look, I obseved a dark spot on the bottom of the fuel tank. Real genius that I am, I proceeded to rub the spot to transfom it into a complete running leak at 8:30 at night, I quickly drove to my nearest auto parts store and bought anything having to do with fuel tank repair including some kind of crayon stick and some 2 part epoxy (about $25 worth of chemicals as I recall.) The crayon stopped the leak and the epoxy made for better repairs so the Stang could be used for school the next day.
I finished the quickie repair job at about 10:30PM on a work night and froze my behind off to keep that car running. I was soaked in fuel by the time I sucessfully stopped the freeking leak and 3/4 of the tank was drained. That weekend I became familiar with the process of unbolting a Mustang tank from the trunk area and installing a new replacement fuel tank, tons if "dum dum" sealer used by Ford on those cars. I no longer wake a sleeping dog when I see one lying there, I know now that they tend to bite you
I finished the quickie repair job at about 10:30PM on a work night and froze my behind off to keep that car running. I was soaked in fuel by the time I sucessfully stopped the freeking leak and 3/4 of the tank was drained. That weekend I became familiar with the process of unbolting a Mustang tank from the trunk area and installing a new replacement fuel tank, tons if "dum dum" sealer used by Ford on those cars. I no longer wake a sleeping dog when I see one lying there, I know now that they tend to bite you
