Odds & Ends – 5 Hours

Time fly’s when you are having fun, or so it would appear having spent most of the day in the garage with little to show for the effort, however there are point’s of note:

1. The 4 drive shaft bolts tightened to a torque setting of 83 ft lbs, this being the value directly from the Ford Mustang factory manual. This did however require a trip to Lowes to purchase a 12mm 12 point 3/8” drive long reach socket. Having a collection of 12mm 12 point ½” drive sockets the diameter of these sockets are too large to clear the universal joint

2. Thinking ahead, knowing that once the radiator is finally mounted it will be difficult to drill holes in the X member, and after checking a number of possible locations, decided to mount the two tone horns on the front of the X member. This location is personal choice.





3. Installed the clutch cable. At build school the instructors stated that the standard cable supplied in the kit requires herculean strength to operate the clutch, these comments are often iterated on the forum. I am pleased to confirm, neither sources were exaggerated. This will be replaced with an original Ford clutch cable which supposedly rectifies the situation. (Will update post at a later date)

A convenient bolt hole on the front of the cylinder head was the ideal location to mount the clutch cable bracket which keeps the cable away from the exhaust headers.