Do any of you Mustang owners have a favorite parts supplier?

I'm helping a friend on his 64.5 and it's all new to me.

 

I use CJ Pony and NPD for most of my parts.

 

Don't try Mid Fifty! Their Mustang parts suck!

 

I used NPD for most of my parts. I was using Mustangs Unlimited for a while but got tired of their BS. I think I am still waiting for a credit when they sent bad parts.

 

When my son and I restored his '67 way back when, we found that they all carried the same Chinese junk, so shop by price, and don't forget to include the freight.

Case in point was the tail light gaskets. The ones we got from vendor A were so thick that we couldn't get the screws started. So I bought another set from vendor B. Guess what? The same junk, too thick. So before I bought any more, I asked who the manufacturer was and I found out all were from the same bad molds.

Later!
Mr. Ed

 

You coulda bought NOS:

C7ZZ-13461-A .. Gasket-Tail Lamp Lens to Body / Obsolete

1967 Mustang / 1968 Mustang except California Special.

Green Sales Co. has 2.

 

Thanks for the input.

Funny you should mention it. Before I started this thread, I almost looked at all the saved links I have for old Ford truck parts. Then I realized that wouldn't work...

OK, looks like NPD it is. Thanks for the responses fellas.

 

Has anyone done a front disc brake conversion on an early mustang? My buddy would like to have discs up front.

I know it'll need a new master cylinder to support front discs/rear drums. I think it's something to do with a proportioning valve, but I'm in the dark here.

Looking at the NPD catalog, there are lots of choices for conversion kits.

 

I have used NPD for years (Ford my 67,67,69) and haven't had any major problems, other that than I have done a lot of junk yard diving as well.

 

Thanks for the recommendation Ador. I'm checking out their catalog right now.

 

Factory installed manual front disc brakes were optional for 1965/66 Mustang V8's.

These cars have a brake pressure differential (some people call a proportioning) valve mounted on the rear axle.

 

When I did the disc brakes on a 66 I had I used the disc set up from a early Granada. Even the dual master cylinder. They were not power and didn't need a proportioning valve and they worked good

 

Does this mean I could convert using the OE manual disc setup? That sounds way too easy, so I obviously don't know what's involved. If I could install that brake pressure differential valve for the rear brakes (probably need new brake lines) will the OE discs fit on the stock spindles? Will the wheels need to be changed?

As you can see, I don't know what I'm doing yet. Which is why I came here with these off topic questions.

 

As you can probably tell, I have no idea what I'm getting into converting to discs.

Was the swap you did from the Granada an easy installation? I'm wondering from what Bill said above if I can just pull off the front drums and install discs and a new dual M/C.

 

Yes it was easy. The spindles, rotors and calipers went right on and I used the dual master cylinder. You will need to add a proportioning valve but it was easy. Sorry but in the other post I forgot I did add one when I did this