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Drivetrain Tech / Speedo gear choices....
Pretty sure I ran the 23t gear on my 3.73 swapped v6 car, and the speedo was a bit off but not enough to matter.  I put ~30k miles on the car that way without the gear tearing itself up, but seeing the speed sensor now the teeth were starting to fracture at the root of the flank.
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User Rides / 88 TC aka Bad Decisions
Found a bit of rust on the driver side rail as well, but it's small time compared to the passenger side. I do think I'm going to just seam weld it all together.

Went through the s bin at work and pulled a workable pile of 12/16ga sheet steel, should be enough to make a solid first pass. Little bummed I moved the car into the middle bay in my garage, I can't reach the car with my tig welding leads so may need to borrow a small mig for the bulk of this.

Dug this out of my pile of books, too bad PB sucks. Would love to share this in full resolution.

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User Rides / 88 TC aka Bad Decisions
It's really a feature, think about how much work it is to drop the cradle.  This body has optimized its geometry to the point where the cradle can be removed from either side of the frame rail.
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User Rides / 88 TC aka Bad Decisions
I'm north of Detroit, Great Lakes crossing area.

Got the motor pulled tonight with my 6 year olds help, had the fuel feed line hang up but it came loose with some persuasion.  Separated the trains/bell and got the old motor supported off to the side.

Got a better gander at the frame rust, and it's a bit bigger than my patch piece from scottrod. The inner tower pieces will be an invaluable time saver though on the fabrication side. Current plan is to cut somewhere halfway up the kickup and rebuild the rail until the rear stabilizer bar bracket
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User Rides / 88 TC aka Bad Decisions
Some background, bought car in 2004ish, it's been a Michigan car it's entire life and as such is rusty as heck.

What's been done:
-Driver floor pan replaced from kick panel to rear well
-Gas tank mounts rebuilt
-Front window frame rebuilt and windshield actually attached to body
-Rebuilt motor and transmission

Went to pull the motor the other night and found the passenger shock tower attached via hopes and dreams. Spoke with scottrodfab and ended up ordering a repair section, mostly because I'm too stupid to declare defeat after dragging this thing around for a bit over a decade. Tomorrow I'm pulling the motor to see what I'm up against.

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General Fox T-Bird/Cougar Discussion / Swapping 88->83 interior?
Long story short, my 88 TC has severe strut tower rot. I have found a rust free 83, base v6 car with no Powertrain.

My thinking is to just completely swap the 88 into the 83 shell,  as I've only ever had 87/88's, what will not swap over?  My assumption is I can build a complete TC out of my existing 88.
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Lounge / wood burner stove help SOLVED
Curious where you're at with this Scott, friends shop had a pump failure on his outdoor boiler and it ended up about how you would expect. Small bang, big fire. Helped him lay geothermal and he hasn't looked back, but that doesn't address the power consumption.

With that said, he was having trouble dumping heat, heating his house/barn and garage (all radiant loops, and radiant panels for retrofit applications) he would regularly have to open his attached garage door to dump heat. The system was happiest when all that volume was ~74 degrees.
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User Rides / Back in a fox. 1988 Turbo Coupe. The life journal.
It's like all the crazy uncles came to the same family reunion. You inspire me Shawn, I have followed a similar path except I kept my rusty and blowed up TC and dragged that boat anchor house to house a few times now ;)

Some day soon it will move under its own power again.
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars FOR SALE / 88 TC Rear Axle Assembly, 3.73
Rear axle out of my last v6 Tbird, complete rear disc setup with quad shocks. Axle has been sitting for a while and will need new rotors and pads most likely. Axle never saw any hard launches with my 3.8, several burnouts though :)

Asking $250 in the Detroit metro area.
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Lounge / Who has guns?
Consider a Kahr PM-9 if your looking for a larger caliber, concealable model
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Lounge / Who has guns?
Quote from: ThunderbirdSport302;348369
I'd recommend something a bit bigger than a .380....I've shot one, felt like a trumped up bb gun...

 
Are you sure you've shot and handled one? Most .380 Auto's are tough to shoot because with a few exceptions they are very small and concealable and having a short sight radius that makes things tough on the shooter.  Compounded with that is the small amount of recoiling mass, and narrow frame widths, to absorb the inertia and your left with a gun that is not comfortable to shoot for long periods of time.

Additionally, .380 Auto bullets (aka 9mm Kurz) is the exact same size as a 9mm bullet with 2mm less case length.  The loads Ive seen tested for both overlap, granted at the lower end of the penetration spectrum but none the less they overlap.  If your using it for protection and using a typical self defense load in a 380 you will more than covered in the "is the hammer big enough?" department.  As with everything else, it doesn't matter if you have a .22 short or a 454 casull if you dont practice with what your going to carry/stake your life on then its not something you can truly depend on.
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Lounge / Who has guns?
Little of this and a little of that, good to exercise ones rights.  It would be more fun if ammo was cheaper,  mostly I only shoot .22's regularly anymore.  Do a lot of hunting throughout the whole winter still, limb chickens, deer and such.
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Lounge / great ideas around the house.
Too cheap to buy wheel weights for your tractor?  Find windshield washer fluid on sale cheap,  I bought 20 gallons for ~$12.  Break the bead on the rear tires add fluid till its nearly full.  If the rim is fully submerged it will not rust.  I got about an extra 70 some pounds per wheel doing this and with Ag tires and chains its plenty to push snow.

As for home heating, I spent a saturday putting duct mastic on every joint and it seemed to increase velocity on the first floor of my home.  Helped even the distribution out better across the rooms.
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Engine Tech / Solved! How to delete your smog pump on an 88 V6 car
Quote from: Pegleg88;328681
If that is a rotary vane pump, can't you remove the vanes from the impeller? That would be cheaper than buying the pump eliminator.


Years ago this is what I did:

1. remove access plate
2. Find large hammer and screwdriver
3. apply surgical force to impeller blades
4. reassemble your free smog eliminator

Worked perfectly fine.