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    Our First Falcon Field Trip

    Hey Team Falcon!

    I took my bird down to Oregon last week and got to work on it in a real shop. I was able to help my brother swap a different t5 into his 62 fairlane, and do some mods on his car mostly to the exhaust. And we get lots of help from him and my father on my bird. I had a great time wrenching with them and really really appreciated my Dads lift. Man I need one of those. It was also really nice to have someone around to hand you tools, hold the light or hit their head on the lift just like you do.

    I fouled a plug 2x on my ~450 Mile road trip down, so we replaced valve stem seals in this 200 ci. That was kind of a pain in the rear, and the tool to perform it cost about 2x what the valve stem seals cost, but I think it really helped. I didn't feel it missing at all on the way back up but that may be in part to the other upgrades I did as well, we will see when I pull the plugs soon.

    We took out about 6 rusty half functional c clamps from my exhaust and welded up the pipes that those were holding together. Put up a couple functional hangers, and We cut about a 2.5 foot section out of the exhaust that bent in a U about 8 inches wide toward the passenger side of the car for no apparent reason.

    I put on my pertronics points replacement and a flamethrower coil as well.

    We fixed my Janky shift linkage to my c-4 tranny, I may still need to adjust it, its difficult to put in Park, and I may need to remove the shift dog in the column. A funny bit is that when its in neutral now the backup lights are on, HAH!

    And we messed with this little 1 barrel carb I have. I've tinkered with this darn thing for about the last time. Whats the best replacement for that? I almost pulled the trigger for a 32/36 dgv but I was reading I might have to get a different distributor if I do that? Would my pertronics setup still work with that?

    If the weber isnt the way to go what else works?
    I am seriously done with this little autolight POS.

    We replaced a wheel cylinder, had the drums turned, new shoes on the front on both sides even though they were pretty much new, but the drivers was saturated from that leaking wheel cyl. Also while we were in there, the previous owner had put the shoes on the wrong side they are different lengths and I believe the short side was to the back! It was a good catch since I would have just put them on the way they came off. The back drums looked great, we just adjusted them up.

    So now the thing stops so much better. Next step is to replace the master cyl. Not sure which way I will be going with that yet.

    I also put in 3 seatbelts in the back seat. It never had any!

    Here are some pics:

    My White Falcon, My fathers 56 Sedan delivery, My brothers 62 Fairlane, My new seatbelts, A falcon van my Dad has. His 26 T hes building. My brothers xover pipe for his exhaust, and my chrome valve cover, guaranteed to leak, and give me 2 extra horsepower right?!
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    Michael Watson
    Covington Wa
    64 Ford Falcon
    200/c4

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