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Miscellaneous For Sale/Wanted / Lincoln MK VII parts
Anybody here be interested or know where to advertise? I have a pretty clean 89 that was rolled but cant find anybody in my area that needs anything and hate to crush good parts.

This is kind of my last resort. Im in central BC Canada.
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General Fox T-Bird/Cougar Discussion / Ignition switch removal 88 TC
So say a guy ends up with an 88 TC with half a key. can I get one made from the door lock or do I have to take the whole steering column in to the locksmith. Also how would a person forcibly remove the switch without a key. Can I just drill out the locking pin and remove it? Would really like to try and start it today.


Scott
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General Fox T-Bird/Cougar Discussion / Chased down an 82 bird today.
Almost didnt notice it as it passed the opposite direction but it did catch my eye! I turned off a side street, did a u-turn, and chased him right in to the cemetery :hick:

I never seen a black one in person before. lol







Same owner since 1985, he was picking up his new truck when it came in on trade, seen it and had to have it. Traded in a plymouth volare for $3750 off the $10,000 bird with 14,000km. Car now has 111,000km. Always been garaged and his wife only used it to run errands. The interior is the darkest bordello red I have ever witnessed, no sun fade at all!

First thing he said to me was "wana buy it?" Well DUH! :crazy: Had a good BS session with the guy, exchanged phone numbers and parted ways.



If I were working I woulda paid the man and brought it home! But if I spend my savings I gotta go back to work and thats no fun. It will have to wait till I decide to go to work then I will go chat with the old fella some more.

I cant wait to take the buffer and some wax to that black!
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User Rides / 1980 Town Landau... again
88,000km lady owned, garaged stored never seen snow and rarely ever seen rain.











Noticed it yesterday, sent a deposit today. Will be picking it up in a week or two, gonna be a longer trip than the last one, will take some planning.

Excited excited!
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Show Photos / 2012 Hooterville Hoot
Held annualy in Vanderhoof B.C. Itwas the first time I have ever attended the show on Sunday june 3rd. I was rollin in the bird and the kid at the gate says 'park at the end of a row and register at the stage'. OK! :hick: free to register but they were accepting donations so I tossed them a couple bux and enjoyed the afternoon bs'ing and drooling over cars.

Here are some pics a friend took
 http://m869.photobucket.com/albums/oldcarnut/Hooterville%20HOot%20pictures/

And a couple of my bird.

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The blue car to the right of mine followed us the 100km to the show, driven by a couple that looked like they were in their 70's. Hard to think of a better way to spend a day off! Put over 1300km on the bird last week :burnout:
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User Rides / 1980 Town Landau
Seen this on kijiji for a year now, finally decided i had better go get it. Picked it up today and added 215km to the 105,111km on the clock bringing it home. Full load minus moon roof and leather which I dont think was available. A/C needs to be recharged otherwise everything works like new. Still sporting michelin trx's that look to be from 1988 with a pair of studded winters on factory rims in the trunk.XXX
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / 1984 Cougar XR7 part out (Canada)
Cougar shiznit the bed tonight on the way home, was goin up hill and it started pinging and stalled when I pulled over, let it cool for a couple mins and it started up running really rough, doesnt sound good. Made it another 5-10K and it died again, got a buddy to tow me out to the shop, looks like theres oil leaking everywhere. It's sitting next to the s pile now.

Gonna keep the seats out of it and the turbo stuff may be spoken for locally (guy wants to turbo his 93 stang vert) any trim or interior stuff is available let me know whatcha need and where ya are and I'll get you a price.

Pics on photobucket

This car has been a really big disappointment right from the start :punchballs:

Scott
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User Rides / Ever clean your garage?
Well it was raining all day so I figured I'd dig in to the depths of my junk pile in the garage and try to get organized a little.

I found a set of illuminated door locks with keys, NOS chrome door edge protectors, NOS headlight door emblems, and a pair of side light lenses for my box bird. I dont even remember buying this stuff, it was like freakin christmas! :mullet:

Anyone else experience this phenomenon when cleanin up the shop?


Scott
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Electrical Tech / Loose wire near O2 plug
1984 Cougar XR7. I was replacing the O2 sensor and found an extra orange wire in the wire loom at the O2 plug, car side. The three wires that should be, are in the plug, and I cant see any sign of it going in beside another wire. Can anyone let me know where it should go?


Scott
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / WTB snowflakes in Canada
Make your jokes, I know you will. I'm in central B.C. and can't find any snowflakes!

So looking for a set in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan. Nothing over the border unless your willing to drive them over. Oxidation isn't a big problem, they will get refinished. Lemme know what you have.


Scott
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General Fox T-Bird/Cougar Discussion / Show me your box!
Been searching around the last few days and I've noticed quite the uprising of 1980, 1981, and 1982, T-birds and Cougars! :roxor: Gettin me all excited about my 82 bird. Haven't even had it registered in the last three summers :disappoin So who wants to show off their boxy foxes?

Heres a pic of my 80 and 82 comin out in spring a few years ago.



These are of the 82











And the 255 towers of power, 1982.



1980



The 1980 had a 1.21 venturi carb off a 351W to replace the 1.08 that was stock, gutted cats, and 2.5" exhaust and actually did pretty good, once you got over 60kph it took off. Did doughnuts pretty well too. Rust and rear end hit from another car took it's toll on the 80 though so I parked it and found the 82 a few years later.\

Seen it in the paper two days before I was supposed to leave on holidays. Drove to the outskirts of town to see it, some little old lady owned it. Kept saying in a thick Romanian accent 'its too big, I cant drive' and 'good for parade or wedding, you can rent' I had to buy it!

Car had bad battery cables and was hard to start but ran great, it was the first I had seen up here without undercoating, and had no rust except in the fender bottoms. Did a carfax after I bought it and found out it is from new mexico originally and came to B.C. three years earlier, then the original owner sold it to this lady. Gonna swap over to the blue 1980 interior and since it was originally silver I want to repaint it in a sliver tu-tone.

Went out to the 82 this afternoon with a battery, car has been sitting since october, cranked 10 seconds and it fired up and idled smooth. The 255's might be dogs but they are reliable, my 1980 had over 300,000km on it when I stopped driving it and it didn't burn oil, just leaked it everywhere :D


:ttiwwp:

Scott
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Electrical Tech / Batt light 84 XR7
So I picked up some new plug wires for the car tonight and put them on, car starts and runs better but the battery light is on now!:punchballs:

While I was doing the wires I noticed the battery clamps were not that tight so I snugged them up, thats the only things I touched while under the hood. After noticing the battery light I went and checked the 3 wires on the alt, the 3-way connector, voltage reg plug, and I replaced the battery post clamps with a new pair as the old bolt on ones were pretty crusty (dont worry, I'll fix it properly soon) Still the battery light stays on.

I checked the battery voltage and its around 13v key off, and 14.6v idling at the battery clamps and the same on the posts.

WTF? :disappoin

Maybe the car is pissed off that I cant do the exhaust this pay day :sorry:


Help
Scott
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Drivetrain Tech / 84 XR7 clutch help
Stepped on the petal to start it and :punchballs: broke the link between the clutch fork and arm on the bell housing.



Now I'm thinking that the spacer someone put on there might have been why the clutch didn't seem to disengage all the way in the first place.



So I go out to the garage and dig down to the deepest end of my old parts pile and find the bell housing from my 86 TC and c00ch the piece I broke aswell as a good shift fork boot (good thing I kept these parts around for 6 years!)



I put it back together, did the 'clutch petal adjustment' procedure, fired up the car and now it wont disengage enough to get it in gear, I had to push it through the floorboards before to get it in gear, now even that doesn't work. :disappoin Could it be that my cable is stretched out that much? I'm gonna try a u-bolt style cable clamp to take up some slack, what else could be wrong here?

Thanks
Scott


EDIT: Well after looking at it I gave up on the cable clamp idea and instead I shimmed the cable out from the bell housing with four 16 gauge steel shim washers. Seems better now, did a short run around the neighborhood and it still slips a bit in 4th under boost right around 4-4200 rpm but will actually light them up in first no problem now, hopefully theres just a bit of glazing on the clutch that'll wear off... or at least give me enough time to round up a new clutch and get it in. Temporary fix but it'll work!
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User Rides / They always come with dread rodents

Every time! theres always gotta be one in every used car.

Picked up this 84 XR7 tonight, figured since I always miss on the TC's around here I better grab this one while it was available, got it for $600 so I dont think I did too bad, body looks much better in the pics, lots of spot rust repairs around it and over all fading. Interior and trunk are in really nice condition though, dosent appear to have been smoked in more than a couple times.





The back half of the exhaust is flex pipe, and the clutch slips (couldn't even test out the trac-loc :punchballs:) but I think the cable is too tight, how much free play should I have at the petal? I currently have none at all. It runs okay but doesnt seem to have the power it should on the bottom end. Might need front wheel bearings aswell, will have to get it in the air this weekend and go through it all.

I have an afr gauge and boost gauge I'm gonna steal from my sprint for a while and gonna get a temp gauge for it so I know whats going on. How much boost is okay to run on these engines, 10 psi is stock right? What diameter IC charge piping? How much exhaust do these engines like 2.5"-3.0"? I know my 1.0L liked a 2.25" straight pipe.

Sorry for all the questions, I've been searching around but all the info I find seems to center around the 'good' turbo engines like the 87-88 TC's and SVO's I gotta make do with this old beaster :hick:

Scott
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / WTB: TC or SC in BC or AB
Got that? alright. lookin for a turbocoupe (87-88 preferably) really wanting a 5spd, will consider all years turbo t-bird or cougar though will travel to alberta or maybe even sask for the right deal.

Or if the opportunity arises I wouldn't turn away a supercoupe either.:D

I sold my daily driver to a friend to buy the 88 I posted about and the guy sold it without lettin me know so now I gotta find some wheels (or tell my buddy to go bone himself but I really wana get back into a bird again)

My price range is under $2000 the farther away it is the more it'll cost me to get it home but if the right deal comes up I'm sure i could figure it out.

Thanks
Scott