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Other Vehicles / Re: Oops, I did it again. I bought a new car. (1986 Ford LTD wagon)
Last post by Chuck W -
Back at it for a bit today. mainly sorting out wiring details and a couple other bits.



Trying to sort out all of the needed wiring I need to save or repurpose from the LTD stuff. Need to save things like power feeds, AC control stuff, and separating the lighting wiring from the other stuff that's not going to be needed.

For the lighting, I'm planning on doing an H4 conversion, like I did on the TBird, and run the headlamp power from the battery, through relays, and just use the old circuits from the headlight switch as triggers.


This is all of the front end light wiring. I'm going to remove the extra bits from the cornering lamps that aren't used and remove the headlight plugs, as I'll be replacing them with a new, uprated harness.

This pic may cause some folks a bit of stress, but there's a method to my madness.


Seeing as I'll be needing to add relays, etc for fan(s), lighting, fuel system, I thought I'd go a different route instead of piecing together another aftermarket set-up (like on the TBird)

I picked up a fuse box for a 2011 Mustang and will use that, to take advantage of some of the wiring and circuit protection already being in place.



The extra circuits/relays I can repurpose to run things like the lighting circuits, as well as repurpose some of the unused J-case fuses to replace the fusible links on the power circuits I need to reuse from the LTD.

Gonna be a little tedious to sort through, but I think I can manage it ;)

To finish up, I bolted the later intake on with the throttle body. Just to have something fun to look at (and close up the intake).
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Lounge / Re: seeds
Last post by jcassity -
update,,
i will have a lot of extra butter nut seed,,LOTS along with pumpkin.
but i have a lot of other types of exta seeds if anyone wants food without harmful ingredients.  all are free and also i am interested in trading.

tip of the day for zone 6A
*How to get two crops of taters in one year and **BEAT** potato bugs an thier own game.........

pick a spot in your yard to lay out abotu 12'' deep of mulch.
try to get mulch from a tree trim company and they will generally dump it at your yard if they are working close by.
let it sit over winter.
come jan eb,, start poking around trying to find anyone with seed potatoes.
target having seed potatoes in your hands in the month of january
store the bag in a warm area of the house and allow them to "eye" up.
mid to late feb lay off your tater rows with a hoe or rake.
drop your quartered up tater seed and cover them up with mulch pertty deep like as deep into the mulch as you can.
dont worry about frosts, the taters will sprout,, cold may kill off the wirey shoots at the tippy tops but they will make it.
warm weather will come and they will go gang busters in your new mulch
in may have another sack of seed taters on standby and let them eye out.
2nd week of june you simple rake back the mulch and pick up your taters.
drop in your new quartered up tater sets and cover them really deep.
harvest your second set as you see fit.

what have you done?  you have broken the potato bugs pattern,, they generally show up during late june and hang out to destroy
yoru plants especially red potatoes.
welll.. since you harvested around the time they were waking up,, they had nothing to do so they move along or just have nothing to eat.  your second crop will be coming on later in the year when they have long abandoned ship.

you get two crops of taters and avoid tater bugs.
best part is,, you save back some taters over winter and a lot of those will eye up and be itching to get in the ground really early anyway so you will end up sourcing your seed from yourself.

i cant stress this part enough,, you gotta have sun............  must have sun and you gotta observe your obstructions now when the sun is low.  its better to catch the tree obstructions in the spring also,, and just drop them into your woods.  let the tree dry out for use over winter if you heat with wood.  gotta have sun!!!!!!!  you have to have a min of at least 8 good hours of sun to make a garden useful.  8hrs of sun in the spring  months is equal to what you would see in the later months.. this means your over 8hrs in the summer.  you cant garden if you dont have sun.  also,, if your doing raised beds (NEW),, make sure your broad / long sides of your beds are south facing,, or easier said,, make sure the skinny ends are aimed east to west.  this will dispurse sunlight more/most evenly across all the beds.
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Misc Tech / Re: Air Conditioning Update Question.
Last post by hast2307 -
I just had my fan side of the AC/Heater box out of my 85 Tbird Turbo Coupe because of mouse house.  I found a little damage to housing and squirrel cage and was looking to replace the squirrel cage with a Foxbody squirrel cage but they are different. In addition the Foxbody fan housing splits different than the Tbird does, so my assumption is the there may be enough differences that the Foxbody heater box assembly may not fit.

If you have the dash out and have access to a u-pull-it, spend sometime pulling the dash and heater box out of a Foxbody and check it to your cougar. 

Regards,
Harry
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Misc Tech / Re: Air Conditioning Update Question.
Last post by Chuck W -
Did they spray foam in the evaporator tubes?

I *think* the box is the the same, but you shouldn't need to do more that replace the evaporator (and the heater core, since you'll have it apart)