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    disc conversion on 1968 mustang

    As a supplier who produces "home made" brackets for disc brake conversions [which are actually components machined by a highly competent machine shop], the only thing I provide is the mounting means [the brackets] that connects the calipers to the rear end or onto the spindles. The rest of the...
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    Looking for a 9 inch

    '57-'59 Ford passenger car 9-inch rear ends and '57-'59 Ranchero/Station wagon 9-inch rear ends are the same width as a '65/'66 Mustang's rear end [52¼" wide bare housing width]. Only difference between '57-'59 big car 9-inch and '57-'59 Ranchero/station wagon 9-inch housings are the...
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    SN95 caliper to Granada spindle bracket

    I've had a couple of owners of much larger Mustang parts/brake supplier companies contact me for my information/insight/ideas on several projects that I have collaborated with them on in the development of components. Through these mutual collaborations of ideas, we have come up with...
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    rear drum brake backing plates

    Yes. The brakes can't go wider in the outboard direction. If they did, it would push the wheel/tire further outward into the wheel well lip with the increasing brake width. The difference is offset increasingly inboard by the backing plate. Wider drum has to have matching deeper inboard...
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    SN95 caliper to Granada spindle bracket

    Other than only some minor differences, the Granada disc spindle is pretty much the same as the '69/'70 Boss 302 spindles or the non-Boss '70-'73 Mustang disc spindles. One problem with using '70-'73 Mustang thick-pinned drum spindles, or '70-'73Mustang or Granada disc spindles on '65/'66...
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    SN95 caliper to Granada spindle bracket

    Dan, I wasn't being hostile towards you or factory-stock vintage brake parts. You stated your point of view and like you, I simply stated my rebuttal from the 'other side of the coin', since there's always two sides to every story. You offer a service to the people who are looking for a...
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    SN95 caliper to Granada spindle bracket

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    SN95 caliper to Granada spindle bracket

    If you have a '75-'80 Granada front disc brake setup on your vintage Mustang, or if you have stock '68-'73 front disc brakes and you are looking to upgrade to 13" Cobra rotors with twin-piston PBR calipers, then these are the brackets you would need for this conversion:
  9. ultrastang

    Sandblasting DIY?

    Hmmm...this could be a multi-purpose thing. It could also double as a personal hair removal devise. :D
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    9" Rear Assembly - '66FB

    '57-'59 Ford/Lincoln/Mercury passenger cars will have the correct width 9-inch rear end to fit your '65/'66 Mustang. These rear ends will have the small bearings --same axle bearing size as all Mustangs '65-'73. You can swap your '65/'66 Mustang 8-inch axles drum brake assemblies onto these...
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    Grenadas... how to tell what year?

    No/Yes. The Ford Granada/Mercury Monarch had the same body style from 1975 through 1980. --The '77-'80 Lincoln Versailles was basically the same as the Granada/Monarch, only a little fancier and with a 'hump' on the trunk lid. All had 5-on-4½" inch lug patterns [same wheel pattern as '65-'73...
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    Sandblasting DIY?

    '67 after I scraped the undercoating off: After I sand blasted the area: With 1st coat of primer applied: All of the front end of the engine bay [inside and out], has since been blasted and primed. I used a Craftsman siphon-feed 120# capacity sand blast...
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    So someone decided to copy our idea for an E-brake handle

    If you produce something, it's not unusual for someone else to take your design and/or your information to come up with their version of whatever it is. I've also had this happen to me and more than once. I'm just a small producer but I've had some much "bigger fish" use my...
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    got to buy a compressor - need your advice pls

    My first and probably last compressor [just unloaded off the truck on Christmas eve, '06]: I purchased it from Home Depot. It was ~$1,900.00. The most demanding tool I use with it is this bead blast cabinet: With the bead blast pressure set at 90 psi, I don't have any...
  15. ultrastang

    Leak down test qestion

    An engine built for street is acceptable with up to 20% leakage. A race engine should have no more than 10% leakage.
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    How do you change the fluid in a 8" rear diff?

    The poster said he was looking for the fill plug on a '99 Mustang GT. The '99 (SN95) Mustang would have an integral 8.8" rear end. He would have to remove the rear cover to let the oil drain out, but upon re-filling it, he would have to remove the fill/sight plug located on the driver's side...
  17. ultrastang

    How do you change the fluid in a 8" rear diff?

    Look on the driver's side near the front of the rear end close to where the drive shaft attaches.
  18. ultrastang

    SN95 caliper to Granada spindle bracket

    Nice work, Dennis.:nice:
  19. ultrastang

    8" ford rear, far from indestructable.....

    Exactly. Why keep fooling with an 8-inch when you could install a 9? --Break an 8-inch once, shame on it. Break an 8-inch twice, shame on you. I've seen claims by some on the forums that a 9-inch rear is 75-100 lbs. heavier than an 8-inch. Contrary to popular belief that the 9-inch rear...
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    Need Help with Rear End Problem on my 70 Mustang

    In the late '90s, I had a '57 model Ford station wagon 9-inch rear with a later 3.70:1 Traction-Lok [from a '75 Ford pickup] under my '68. The engine was out of my '68 at the time, but just with me pushing the car around in the shop, the differential clutches would pop because there was no...
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