I pulled a tilt steering column out of a late 80 ish ford ranger primarily so I could put tilt in my 70 coupe, but now I've got a nifty wiper switch and hi/lo beam switch on the tree that I want to make functional. My problem is that the wiper switch was mising from my car when I got it. Anyone got a 69/70 that knows what color does what function on the wiper motor harnes. My wiring diagram doesnt go into detail other than the wires go to the motor, but I'd guess one is hot, one is slow speed one's fast and one is squirt, anyone know what colors corespond to those functions etc. I dont want to fry my motor, well I'm not even sure if it works at this point?
The ranger column was damn near a perfect swap other than the fact I had to cut the rag joint off of the mustang column and weld it onto the ranger column and fab up a new bracket for the floor board and under the dash, hole thing took me less that 2 hours to fab up and it's got sweet tilt, but I figured that the optimum position was right where the wheel was with no tilt but I can now call it a frankenstein style custom.
I've been working my ass off the past few weeks trying to get the bodywork finished up and all of the other ods and ends done. The car is mechanicaly done, all I've got left is bodywork and to finish up the wiring for the steering column swap. I took the column out of a late 80-ish Ford Ranger so I could have tilt steering and get the wiper controls and hi/low beam switch on the column.
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The swap was really pretty easy, all I had to do was fab up a new upper bracket, which was just a chunck cut out of the old column where it boldted to the dash and welded right to the bottom of the new column. For the lower mount at the floor board I had to cut off the Rangers mount off and then tack weld the mustangs old floor mount to the end of the shaft just below the lower bearings. I'ts kind of ugly, but I'll take it out and clean up all of the welds later. The rag joint setup on the ranger was a bit diffrent than the mustangs, so I cut the end of the shafts of both columns and welded the mustangs rag joint to the new column, but the length was a perfect fit.<br>
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As far as the body work goes, it's coming along pretty quickly, I've still got to finish up the roof and the hood other than that it's all but done. You can only tell that I hacked the roof off and welded the new one on if you look really closely, but when it's done you'll be hard pressed to tell that it was done. I've also thrown in some pics of the motor as all of the bracing is in now.
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Thats it for now, as always more to come.
The ranger column was damn near a perfect swap other than the fact I had to cut the rag joint off of the mustang column and weld it onto the ranger column and fab up a new bracket for the floor board and under the dash, hole thing took me less that 2 hours to fab up and it's got sweet tilt, but I figured that the optimum position was right where the wheel was with no tilt but I can now call it a frankenstein style custom.
I've been working my ass off the past few weeks trying to get the bodywork finished up and all of the other ods and ends done. The car is mechanicaly done, all I've got left is bodywork and to finish up the wiring for the steering column swap. I took the column out of a late 80-ish Ford Ranger so I could have tilt steering and get the wiper controls and hi/low beam switch on the column.
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<a href="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/uppermount.jpg"><img src="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/uppermountthumb.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/topcolumn.jpg"><img src="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/topcolumnthumb.jpg"></a>
<br><a href="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/tilt.jpg"><img src="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/tiltthumb.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/column2.jpg"><img src="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/column2thumb.jpg"></a>
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The swap was really pretty easy, all I had to do was fab up a new upper bracket, which was just a chunck cut out of the old column where it boldted to the dash and welded right to the bottom of the new column. For the lower mount at the floor board I had to cut off the Rangers mount off and then tack weld the mustangs old floor mount to the end of the shaft just below the lower bearings. I'ts kind of ugly, but I'll take it out and clean up all of the welds later. The rag joint setup on the ranger was a bit diffrent than the mustangs, so I cut the end of the shafts of both columns and welded the mustangs rag joint to the new column, but the length was a perfect fit.<br>
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<a href="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/motor1.jpg"><img src="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/motor1thumb.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/motor2.jpg"><img src="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/motor2thumb.jpg"></a>
<br><a href="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/bodywork1.jpg"><img src="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/bodywork1thumb.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/bodywork2.jpg"><img src="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/bodywork2thumb.jpg"></a>
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As far as the body work goes, it's coming along pretty quickly, I've still got to finish up the roof and the hood other than that it's all but done. You can only tell that I hacked the roof off and welded the new one on if you look really closely, but when it's done you'll be hard pressed to tell that it was done. I've also thrown in some pics of the motor as all of the bracing is in now.
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<a href="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/bodywork3.jpg"><img src="http://www.ghettonet.org/images/mustang/bodywork3thumb.jpg"></a>
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Thats it for now, as always more to come.