1972 Fury III 360 101498 miles

[Wollfen]

Hey Ben, quick question on your car for my own use, does your electronic ignition harness plug in like on my 73? Check my pic, you will see a bulkhead connector plugging into another harness piece with a zip tie around it. I ask because I want to replace mine and I an wondering if it is only in 73 cars, I'm hoping it is in others though. My 72 and 73 harnesses out of my NYB's don't have this plug.

 

[1970FuryConv]

Hey Ben, quick question on your car for my own use, does your electronic ignition harness plug in like on my 73? Check my pic, you will see a bulkhead connector plugging into another harness piece with a zip tie around it. I ask because I want to replace mine and I an wondering if it is only in 73 cars, I'm hoping it is in others though. My 72 and 73 harnesses out of my NYB's don't have this plug.View attachment 227383

Hey Gary. My car was point ignition 360 V8. Build date 5-72. I don't think 72 cars are going to help you unless big block cars got electronic ignition.

 

[1970FuryConv]

Oil Pump & Pickup: removed. I know, 2 bolts, big deal. Pickup unscrews by hand.

After about 30 minutes of shaking and knocking against the board and more scraping, here is what came out over that 30 minutes.

This is in addition to what I scraped out the other day

Who knew it could hold so much junk. Must have been getting oil only thru this opening.

Pan and Pump bolts after wire wheel clean-up

Scraped engine block oil pan rails, paint scraper with straight blade
Right side

Front

Left rear

Right rear. Interesting that Chrysler stamped C along the pan rails. (I saw it at least twice. C in picture is beside engine to trans support strut bolt) Wonder what it means?

BTW, NAPA has Chrysler engine blue DE1631. Ordered a can for tomorrow. Advance and AutoZone don't carry it.

 

[pomonamissel]

i use napa everytime . if they don't got it they will order it for ya , no issues .

 

[LocuMob]

Parts city, the independent O'Reilly's, gets it next day, and no charge like Napa might get you for.

 

[1970FuryConv]

Oil Pan (continued)
C marks are evenly spaced down both pan rails

Cleaned pain rails with die grinder and Roloc discs, 60 grit sandpaper in stubborn spots, 240 grit for general clean up

Oil Pan with Duplicolor DE1631. Not perfect, but a lot closer than Ford engine blue

That was about all I got done in an hour and a half in the garage after work. Still waiting on Fedex to deliver my engine crane's replacement hydraulic cylinder. Then we can put the bottom back together and work on a new fuel pump gasket.

 

[bigmoparjeff]

must states follow calif's deal on reg i think . so you could just sell your cars paper to a bud to get away from old owed fees . it might be okay going out of country on the waving of the fees . but we're not talking about a car that is a bank breaker . its just a plan 72 fury 3 , and its not number matching , or a stick car . its going to make a great parts car . not wrecked not rusted way .

I'm pretty sure that no one has to pay the California back fees if the car goes to a different state. If the car were to return to California later on after being titled in another state, the fees would be again be reinstated.

I get the Non-Op notice from CA DMV every year for my bus. A waste of taxpayer money in my opinion, but I'm not going to spend the money to title it in PA when I'm considering moving out of the state in a few years.

Jeff

 

[ImpJay]

I'm pretty sure that no one has to pay the California back fees if the car goes to a different state. If the car were to return to California later on after being titled in another state, the fees would be again be reinstated.

I get the Non-Op notice from CA DMV every year for my bus. A waste of taxpayer money in my opinion, but I'm not going to spend the money to title it in PA when I'm considering moving out of the state in a few years.

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Jeff

Have I understated that right, so the license plate(s) belong to a person instead of the car where they are installed on?

 

[bigmoparjeff]

California is the only state that I know of where the plate stays with the vehicle when sold. That's why you see California cars with the old black plates and blue plates still on them. Under certain circumstances California will order the plates on a vehicle to be removed and destroyed. That was the case with my bus. It, and 21 others had been abandoned at a storage facility and the facility owner had to apply for new titles for all the buses. When that happened, CA required new plates to be obtained if you wanted to re-register the bus. I drove mine home, so I needed a plate, though I guess that I probably should have got a temp/transit tag instead of regular plates.

 

[LocuMob]

Illinois the plates stay with the driver, or they did a decade ago...

 

[Polara_500]

Minnesota the plates go with the car unless they're personalized or Veterans or the like, those belong to the person.

 

[1970FuryConv]

Virginia license plates stay with driver and can be used on another vehicle, excepting historic plates, which stay with driver but cannot be used again after vehicle is sold.

Did a little more cleaning on the pan rails.
Sprayed pan rail bolt holes with brake cleaner.
Cleaned the center link. Learned one interesting thing, center link has a casting number.

It's at pitman arm end

Now we can ID a 1972 Fury Center Link at swap meets. Whoopee.
Bummer is that my repair cylinder for my engine crane is still stuck in Martinsburg WV. Thanks Fedex. Been there since Sunday.

 

[Analog Kid]

Ben,

Curious to know what paint you used on the kick panels. Looks like the color is Y5 - Medium Gold - correct?

 

[1970FuryConv]

Ben,
Curious to know what paint you used on the kick panels. Looks like the color is Y5 - Medium Gold - correct?

Bought this at Lowes. Great color!

 

[1970FuryConv]

Still waiting for repair cylinder for my engine crane. Oil pan on hold.
Addressed another leak today. Fuel pump oiling lower radiator hose.

Alternator removed

Carter fuel pump, nothing wrong with it. Bolts installed oily. Had either loosened or were installed with too little torque.

Something I don't get to see enough

Cleaned mounting surfaces, razor blade in paint scraper, die grinder with Roloc surface discs, 240 grit sandpaper

Also cleaned out bolt holes with brake cleaner

Better pic

Fuel Pump installed with new gasket, torque 30'lbs

Fuel line installed. Someone used copper instead of steel.

Alternator installed. You'd hardly know I did anything.

 

[1970FuryConv]

Finally got my replacement hydraulic jack cylinder for my engine crane. Tired of this job so stayed in garage past 9pm to get the oil pan installed and the motor mount lower bolts installed

Oil Pan: installed 200"lbs per bolt. Had to lift the engine to max height without crushing the distributor against the firewall. Next time I think I'd remove the lower bolt from the trans mount, but I was trying to use the trans mount to keep the engine somewhat centered.

Surprising that the pan looked blue gray on the workbench, but fully cured, it came out the right color.

LS motor mount, lower bolt installed at 50'lbs. Crane was good for centering the mounts on the subframe mounts.

RS motor mount, same deal, 360 block does not have a mount for the open hole pictured

Milodon gasket set I used. Summit Racing, purchased on ebay

Basically, I used RTV to attach the rear rubber to the rear main and attach the front rubber to the oil pan. I used twist ties to keep the rail gaskets in place during install and removed the twist ties before final tighten.
Left the garage a mess. I'll clean it up tomorrow.

 

[LocuMob]

If that's a mess, I'm in a landfill in my garage. Nice work going through all the little things to get that well oiled machine.

 

[73 T&C]

Now I want to repaint my oil pan.....

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

That's gotta be the prettiest oil pan I've seen in awhile!



But wait! don't put it down yet, ya gotta get out a small detail paint brush and paint the bolts!

Then there is that hose on the transmission line...

 

[1970FuryConv]

@68PK21 440.6bbl
Thanks for the tip about the jack cylinder. That allowed me to get it high enough that I didn't scratch it all up.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for me to start painting bolt heads. Have serious don't care/laziness problem there.

Didn't do much tonight. Installed LS support brace.

NAPA price matched Advance on a 745 hose, $13.99. After I cut 1.5 inches off each end, it fit perfectly. I added back my coolant.

Also, added 5 quarts of NAPA 20W50. Works great in Virginia, not too cold for extra thick oil. That and a NAPA 1515 filter and my engine is happy.

Still have steering linkage and fuel filter to do. And all the oil level monitoring that goes with adding back trans oil.