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User Rides / Re: 84 Tbird project
Not a whole lot has been happening with the Tbird besides driving it and enjoying it, but here's an update since June.

I wanted to finish the fuel system and utilize the return fuel line since it's not a good idea to dead-head an electric fuel pump. So last October I made a homemade brass low pressure regulator kind of like what user: Walking-Tall on foureyedpride did. It uses a brass set screw with a small hole drilled in it as a pseudo jet to regulate fuel going into the return line. I was able to find all of the fittings pretty easily at the hardware store except the brass set screw. Those are difficult to find. I ended up having to special order some from Fastenal.













I also got a new set of Ohtsu 225/55-16 tires for the TRX wheels, and they're on the car now.















I also have everything rounded up to install 11" Mustang front brakes.































I got these adapters for the brake lines, but I'm not sure they're the right ones yet.



Front struts for a 94 Mustang GT







And finally a set of FMS 3.73 gears. The axle in the Tbird currently has 2.73s so this should make a big difference.







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User Rides / Re: 84 Tbird project
I agree, the Thunderbird TRX was a better looking wheel. Too bad it probably won't ever get reproduced in a 16" like the Mustang TRX. My Dad's '83 Cougar he bought new had them. He told me when the Cougar was pretty new the TRX tires were easy to find but expensive. By the early '90s the tires had to be special ordered, but he kept the TRX wheels on until he traded it in in 1992.

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User Rides / Re: 84 Tbird project
Look what the big brown truck brought today for the Tbird, a set of LRS 16x7 TRX wheels! These are the Mustang style TRX, but they still look good on Tbirds, and 99% of people wouldn't know the difference lol. Now I just gotta get some tires put on them.





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User Rides / Re: 84 Tbird project
The next item is probably gonna be resealing the quarter windows because the passenger side is leaking.

I have a set of GT40 heads from a 96 Explorer that I need to take to the head shop and have redone and high lift valve springs installed. Then I can put them on the Bird.

I'm also planning to upgrade the brakes with a set of front brakes from an 87+ 5.0 Mustang. I already have the spindles and calipers.
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User Rides / Re: 84 Tbird project
Been working on a few small projects for the Tbird. First off dealing with the dash registers that kept falling and pointing down.

Went to the hardware store and got some neoprene rubber washers and put them on the registers now they stay where you put them.







Then I installed the Edelbrock 14" air cleaner. This is the air cleaner I originally wanted to put on this motor, but it hit the distributor so I took it back and got the 10" air cleaner. But this time I used a 1/2" spacer to get it right above the distributor.









Finally got my Kenwood stereo installed after I found a radio bezel with the rectangular hole for a modern stereo. I really wanted a bezel without the warning light indicators, but this was all i could find.















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User Rides / Re: 84 Tbird project
Finished up the a/c yesterday. First off, I needed to bypass the WOT cutout relay to get power to the cycling switch. Since the ECM partially controls the a/c, and it's in the dark about what the engine is doing, it won't send power to the cycling switch through the relay. No big deal just gotta remember to turn the a/c off before I hammer it. After that I added oil and freon. It was 98 here yesterday and it was blowing high 40s out the vents so I'm happy.



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User Rides / Re: 84 Tbird project
Installed the a/c compressor and hoses, and ran hoses to the heater core today. After that we pulled a vacuum on the system to boil it out. Next is charging the a/c and hopefully there will be cold air!







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User Rides / Re: 84 Tbird project
This weekend we started work on the next project for the Thunderbird. Since it's starting to get warm we're getting the a/c going!

But before we can put a/c on the car we gotta deal with the leaking heater core so me and Dad tackled it. We also replaced the blower motor while we had the heater box out.



























The sleeves on the seat belt receptacles were trashed so while I had the seats out I replaced them with receptacles from a 1986 Mustang that have new sleeves from LMR. They fit on the Tbird seats pretty well. You'll also need the receptacle bolt from the Mustang and just put it through the other direction and bolt it to the Tbird seat.









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User Rides / Re: 84 Tbird project
I replaced the Mac H pipe this weekend because it wouldn't seal at the headers because the s aren't right. The holes for the studs are too narrow so you have to grind the holes out to get them to bolt on. But even then it still leaks so I got a Jegs H pipe, which is similar to a BBK and put it on. It didn't wanna line up at first, but I kept working with it and got it to bolt up and no leaks!



I tapped the smog pump tube and plugged it with a 3/8 pipe plug.



Quote from: ISTLCRUZ – on
Looking back on your post about the shifter bezel. I’m curious if the bezel from an AOD Mustang (87-93) could work or made to work with the Tbird console part?If I remember correctly the bezel piece can be removed separately from the console piece. I looked at a few pictures and they look close? I think those were installed from the top. Just a thought.

I can say that it will work or at least part of it. The shifter bezel from an 87-93 auto is two pieces the plastic part that snaps on the console and a rubber bezel seal. I decided to try using the Mustang bezel seal with the Thunderbird bezel so I ordered a new bezel seal from LMR. I just took the bezel off and sat the Mustang bezel seal on the shifter and put the Thunderbird bezel back on. It did a pretty good job of filling the gap between the shifter and the Thunderbird bezel so I'm gonna call it good.







I also installed my Pioneer speakers. They're a huge improvement over the 35 year old factory speakers!







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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / ISO: A few 83-84 interior pieces
Looking for good a lower dash panel below the steering wheel in Academy blue. Mine is broken and warped.



Automatic Floor shifter bezel from an 84 Turbo Coupe or Cougar XR7 with automatic (85 and newer won't fit)

Dash center radio bezel with din style radio opening preferably without diagnostic warning lights

Triangle shaped plastic mirror bolt covers on both sides

Passenger side front side marker for 83-86 Tbird
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User Rides / Re: 84 Tbird project
Today I installed the center caps and gave the Bird a bath. There's still plenty of work to do, but it's getting there.

Thunderbird 10 holes have a bird on the center caps, but I'm using the center caps from the Mustang parts car so they have the Ford oval. I already have them and the Thunderbird is a Ford so they're good enough for me lol.