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Right–crow's foot! That's the term, completely slipped my mind! I remember how commonplace they were in part stores, but not recently. I had to get my one off E-Bay.

---Tony

We talking a '65 in your case? Actually, you should not have to detach the shocks. You just need to get the tail end up a good two feet (at least) off the ground. Remove the filler pipe, disconnect the wiring and fuel lines at the sending unit, unbolt the straps, and the tank should slide out. But o...

No, it's just a wrench head of open-jaw configuration, with a square hole in the bottom to attach a ratchet. I remembered seeing them in part stores many years ago–sold either individually or in sets–and not being able to fathom what use they could serve that sockets could not. Then, when I finally ...

I sure hope you're not thinking of putting one of those 1970s sunroofs in Frankenstein! Fear not, that is never going to happen. That's what 'verts are for. Honestly, I'm rather surprised that moon-roof job survived the recent storm system that went through there. Those are just not meant for hail-...

Or lifters that their invoice states fit the 462 but are actually for the 460. I'm still sore at RockAuto for that one. I remember having complications like that many years ago with new stabilizer bushings, which prompted me to stick with the old ones for as long as I could. Well, last week I confir...

Wait...after all the laws making it just about a criminal act to use checks anymore, people still use those ?? :o Anyway, I don't really know which tool or apparatus is the most important one in my collection, as all of them are critical to me. And yes, even with a vintage car assembled by American ...

Hi, all, This is to share a couple of vintage Lincolns I stumbled across on a road trip I completed yesterday. I went to Livingston, TX on Thursday for a cigarette run; now, why would I take a 6-ish-hour road trip for cigarettes?? Long story...but before anyone gets snarky, it does not involve the g...

Really...? I didn't know that. Now, I can't remember the year of organ donor I cannibalized a couple visors from for the lighting mechanism, but I remember they didn't have fuses inside them. I had to splice in a couple external fuses to the visor circuits when I did that surgery to Frankenstein's v...

I can remember growing up with hearing a squeak coming from the front of my grand's Man-Of-War–a soft, high-pitch squeak whenever the car was rolling. Fast-forward to the point that the front end needed surgery, and the squeak was gone afterward. That squeak turned out to be caused by the lower ball...

Ah; okay, that makes sense. Too bad they didn't think about putting a zerkable ball stud on the driver's end. The end studs were never designed to withstand the angles of twist those soft spacers caused, which was why the steering components would wear too fast (though not fast enough to command war...

Dittos! Lincoln should have made that a production model, with hardly any production changes. They could very well have given upstart Chrysler a what-for!

---Tony

I can remember 12 years ago when I went through a suspension overhaul the frustration of trying to remove the old bushing from the shackle. But there was a way to do it; I stumbled across the way to do it and made it happen quickly. I just can't remember now what it was. Honestly, that was a job I t...

There has been some dispute in the past over when the insulation spacers (or, as I call them, soft spacers) were fitted; the phase-in was definitely completed by the start of M-Y '63, but the issue was whether they started the phase-in during '62. I suspect they did; there would not be any indicatio...

Personally I prefer the bag. There is virtually no real difference in the washer system's performance whether one chooses the bag or a plastic bottle, and it is now easy to fully restore a worn-out washer system without resorting to alien components. The main components are the pump and the bag, and...

Do you mean the recent ones, Wayne–the ones Chrysler started about 2005 and discontinued this year? If so, then yes, I was thinking exactly that. Those cars did look very Lincoln-like, almost like the Continental concept displayed about that year, which should have been made for production in my opi...