Hello new to the forum, trying to start planning out a future project. Here is a little background to the question. Pulled a 1973 mustang coupe out of my uncles chicken house to save it from the rats, got it running, was having fun till it decided to not make oil pressure one morning when i went to move it and my high school budget didn't allow for a rebuild, after spending so much to get it road worthy.

So as it was a gift from my uncle, as he figured it would be be better off in my care than sitting in the chicken house, so i refuse to sell it or do anything but give it back to him after a engine rebuild. Just ready to move on to a different project. I plan to attempt to trade for what was parked behind the mustang when i got it, in the same chicken house is a 1966 Mercury Colony Park Woody Wagon. 390 C6 N9 etc. Was told something is wrong with the motor, can't confirm this last i looked an opossum had moved in and I helped him "move" out.

Decided my next project I'm going to swap a 11-14 5.0 into something.....

Repowering the mustang would be fun, Foxbody would be easier, cheaper and quicker. But feel the Woody Wagon would be cooler and different. Not near as many Coyote 5.0 66' Woody wagons as there are Coyote fox body cars. Not looking to run 7s in the 1/8th or 11s in the 1/4. just looking for a cool different cruiser.

Started looking around seems that swapping the front ends out of Crown Vics is popular and since the engine mounts for the 4.6 and new 5.0 are the same it would be a good start.

MY QUESTION IS.....

Does anyone know if the front suspension of a 1966 F-100 is the same as a 1966 Mercury Colony Park Wagon.

2300 miles form home or id take the drive to look myself vs the 66 F100 parked out back. Not finding much info on the web on the subject......

Thanks in advance. Some pictures for fun...

 

Sorry, the two front suspensions are not the same.

 

Figured as much, appreciate the response sorry for the wasted thread.

 

Got a question, You said one morning the engine had no oil pressure. Was the engine knocking? does it still have oil in it? Please tell us more, you might just have an electrical issue.


John

 

Completely different, see parts catalog pics. 1965/72 Ford Galaxie/LTD same mechanically as full sized Mercury Monterey/Montclair/Marauder/Parklane/S-22/Colony Park.

Except that 1966/67 Mercury Parklanes came with the 410, that was not used in like Ford's.

 

What this guy said.

 

Sorry for the delayed response, wife was sick Saturday and took her to the doctor on Sunday.

The car had been moved by my father earlier in the day. I got in the car to pull it back in, after it fired up I noticed that the flat tappet was tapping really loud looked down to my mechanical guage I had installed after fixing it up and what usually would show 50-60 was 0, and the dummy light stayed on after start up as well.

Pulled the stick and the level was good but found small plastic chunks on the stick. I was working at a ford dealer at the time and two of the techs had been there since the late 60s early 70s said that ford had installed a hard plastic cover on the timing gear to reduce noise. That they had replaced many pumps and motors because of it. Got discouraged and just left it for another day.

clip of the early progress

 

Darn, thanks for the info. Just have to wait till I can get back home to it. And just go from there.

 

FE nylon timing gear only factory installed (to reduce noise), was not available at the parts counter.

Behind the nylon gear was a spacer (see 6265 in left pic). Aluminum "service part replacement" timing gear (C8AZ-6256-A - see pic at right) had the spacer made as part of it.

So, the spacer was tossed away as there wasn't any need for it.

Trying to explain this to peeps at parts counters that had brought in their old chipped to death nylon gears could be maddening.

 

Bummer of a deal. My '67 F100 with 352 arrived with a nylon cam gear which left many bits in the oil and ended up in the pump. Starved a lot and shred a bearing in it. So don't run it any more.

It takes a lot to jam a pump, but it may have stopped the pump at which point it may have snapped the pump shaft to the distributor. Not a hard fix though. Could be done in a day if you can get the pan and timing cover off without yanking the motor. Not familiar enough with the Mustang of that vintage, though I'm building a '69 Fastback at the moment and pulling the pan on it would be easy in the car.

Anyway, a pump, a shaft, timing gears, filter and oil. Maybe a $100 fix if the distributor is OK. But you never know until you're in it. May be lots of while-I'm-at-it's in there.

Nice Mustang though. Not a huge fan of that year range (71-73), but they fix up nice. The '73 is the last and biggest Mustang prior to the gas shortage and mini-Mustangs. It was also pretty gutless for all the smog stuff they were experimenting with.