'70 Maverick

[Vimes]

Looks great.

[TerryH432]

Looks great.

Thank you!

[TerryH432]

Purely an OCD deal on my part to do this but I had to have the drilled and slotted rotors. Bit of an adventure on the front. For whatever reason the folks at RRS in Australia decided to use 2004 GTO rotors so I had to have those redrilled to the Ford pattern. Just for conversation's sake I also found out the the front calipers are C5 Corvette. Beats me why but alas, that is what they are. Paid an utterly ridiculous price to get the Wilwood rear rotors. Anyway, this was exactly what I was going for.







Also nice to rid ourselves of the "why would they do that?" hard plumbing to the calipers and get it done properly.

[TerryH432]

And another thing... lol... Finally got these sequential LED tail lights from Digitails. Ordered in November. Received them in April. Anyway, we color matched the bezels also which I like a lot. Overall these lights are very cool and will be seen way better than the original incandescent bulbs.

[TerryH432]

Just posting some random pics that I thought were cool.

[NCSU68]

Great work! Enjoy!

[TerryH432]

Great work! Enjoy!

Thanks!

[jaybee]

Love that car.

[TerryH432]

Love that car.

Thank you! I do too on most days.

[TerryH432]

Well, the last couple months have been interesting. After getting the TKX lined out everything seemed fine at first but the farther we went the worse and worse the clutch got. It refuses to disengage completely. We had to pull the TKX...again. It was pretty ugly. The RST was smoked.



Anyway, while all this was apart I decided to deal with the rear end. Back on page 2 I documented the wrong bearing retainers were on the rear end when we got the car and we solved that but unknown to me the damage was done. Once we quieted the TKX it became obvious that the rear end had issues. Turns out that the axle bearing issue had left behind a big issue.

This is not water. It's a ton of bearing material in dust form. Yes I know that I should have pulled the third member was back on page 2 but here we are. Really sad because the car has a nice PEM nodular 3rd member with their Trac Loc. Oh well. It's only money.



Had a local shop rebuild it and it's quiet as a church mouse now.

Back to the clutch. Installed the new RST and got everything back together. The car had a Wilwood clutch/master assy under the dash. Once we started to bleed the system we quickly saw that it was attached with a cobbled up bracket and much of what I thought was pedal travel turned out to be the garbage mount flexing. It once upon a time worked but obviously fatigued over time. We fabbed up a new and beefy 1/4" plate bracket. Had a heck of a time trying to get the system bled out completely but thought we had it solved. We put the car in the trailer and headed to the Good Guys show in Des Moines for the 4th of July weekend. It was way better but still not disengaging the clutch completely.

Enter the Malwood under dash clutch pedal setup we saw in the Tremec booth at the show.



This is a pretty trick piece. Took a little back and forth with Ross at Malwood but we got everything working with the RST. It worked great but had the exact opposite issue we had with the Wilwood setup. Too much pedal travel and more throwout movement than we needed. I added a pedal stop I found on Ebay an finally the clutch works right in this thing!





The Malwood has a remote reservoir. No place to put that under the dash. No room on the firewall so ended up with it on the back side of the strut tower. I don't love it there but it works.



Really nice to be able to finally rive this car and have it be quiet and have a clutch that operates properly. Feels kinda weird that for the first time since we bought it I can't really see anything that needs fixing. I'm sure something new will shoot craps soon though. lol...

Speaking of the Good Guys show, we didn't win anything but did get some love from them with a nice cruising pic in their weekend review pics.

[TerryH432]

And another thing...lol... We've fought some prior poor paint prep issues with this car and had to deal with that once again. We're slowly but surely painting the whold car one panel at a time. This time it's some ugly bubbles on both ends of the rear body panel. On the Monday before we need to put it in the trailer on Wednesday to go to Good Guys we decided to dive into it because we are just plain ignorant.



Turned out to be a really weird deal. Once we ground it out there was no smoking gun. Obviously it was some sort of contamination that caused it to turn loose.







All better now and actually made it in the trailer when we needed to.

[TerryH432]

Video of the Malwood clutch pedal install and review is up on our channel.

[TerryH432]

[TerryH432]

Not much for new projects but here's a few new pics I thought were pretty cool.

[TerryH432]

I saw this trick on a Facebook post by Mark McDonald. Zip tie plug wire separators with a twist. He put marine heat shrink on the main zip tie. Love the clean look. That little piece of heat shrink makes a totally different look vs a naked zip tie.

[TerryH432]

Finally we have a lift! Found a lightly used one for half price vs new. Managed to move it without taking it apart. So stoked to have it!



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[Vimes]

Nice on the lift. But, I see you like to live dangerously. If you're going to use the lift to store one it really needs something across the entire middle area to catch drips from the top car. It would seriously suck to have something acidic drip on that Maverick's paint and stay there overnight or over a few days.

[TerryH432]

Nice on the lift. But, I see you like to live dangerously. If you're going to use the lift to store one it really needs something across the entire middle area to catch drips from the top car. It would seriously suck to have something acidic drip on that Maverick's paint and stay there overnight or over a few days.

They weren't in there but it has 3 big drip trays. I was over anxious to see if they would really stack with a 10' ceiling and not having to do anything with the garage door. Need to put the jack tray on it as well. The Maverick was under there just long enough to take the pics.

[TerryH432]

Before I ever dreamed we'd have a lift I was in the midst of a major shop rearragement to be able to get the Mustang and the Maverick in the shop at the same time. I shot a 3 part video series for our YouTube channel. Thought I might as well share those here. It was quite a journey.

[Chris74]

What part of Arkansas are you from I live 15 minutes from Fort Smith.