OK, Night Shuan
Good nite MD.

 

Gooood mornin' Md.!!

 

morning guys

 

Good morning JR and Mitch.

 

hey Paul was that pic of your truck up at the car show near you?

 

Yeah, that was a car show in Eldersburg this past Saturday.

 

Paul you get the mustang running the way you wanted?? last I heard you were wanting more out of it-tune wise-you played with the timing yet?

 

pretty cool

 

I was driving it last week and the water pump gave out on it. So after 4 hours of heating bolts I got it apart and installed the new one. Let it run for 15 minutes to let the air out of the system and the radiator let loose.
Now I gotta get a radiator. So now I'm at a standstill til I get that going.

 

don't it just figure-we all seem to be having the same type luck--bad

 

Yeah, seems to be a trend, put some stop leak in it to get it home and the oil pressure light kept flickering, I was so upset when I got home I kept telling her that I should get rid of it. But I cooled off and re-thought the whole thing, It's 36 years old and it needs work. So I'm gonna keep working on it.

 

fords seem real bad for water pump bolts-they seize up around the water pump-broken many of them-I have started using anti seize on those boogers! I guess the steel and aluminum don't like the contact after 10 or so years-saw an old bulletin from a ford mechanic dated early 80s to that effect,they recommended anti seize on all bolts that contact any non steel part-i use it on all the long go through bolts now-well if i can find it in my tool box-getting harder to get random bolts at dealers or junk yards now a days-hey they will sell ya the whole motor-but one bolt? forget it!!

 

the good part is once you get something fixed you know it will be something different the next time-friends have older stuff get fed up by something else old and just start all over again? they allways say I should have kept the other one at least i know where to start

 

i know you work at a shop Paul-call around and get prices on the radiator-don't forget earl's discount auto in the dc area-have beat most prices on them I've seen-and are good quality-they do deliver to shops-or if you want i can grab it and drop it up your way one weekend when I come up that way-save ya a trip!will just need all the details-if ya want I'll find the phone number today!

 

the up side to this water pump going on me is that the one I took out was the factory original. nothing like replacing a 36 year old water pump!