65Fury440
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I welded up my own oil pump boss mount and drilled/tapped the holes. I will share pics soon.
65 Sport Fury
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I welded up my own oil pump boss mount and drilled/tapped the holes. I will share pics soon.
65Fury440
Senior Member
Looks good, getting closer!
fury413rb
Member
is that a factory front sway bar?
yes it is.
The Horvaths
Young man with a cowboy hat
Hey, look at it this way: yours will be the only car at the meets with that unique decorative option.
Yatzee
Active Member
Your a man after my own heart. Our cars will look like brothers when you finish but remember "Black cars look better in the shade". What you are doing is exactly what I did to mine but it took me three years and 160 pictures. I left the chrome off and leaded the holes on both sides, front of the hood and rear trunk panel. Pay close attention to the mounts for the hood torsion bars as they wear at the seats and make hood alignment a bear. Use the feeds from the dimmer switch to trigger your relay coils for the headlites - the original feed wires are to light. Fuse and feed the relays directly from the battery post. There's a kit you can buy or just make your own. If you ever remove the cross member at the rear of the tranny, make sure to jack the frame stubs before bolting back in. The torsion bars will want to tip these down and the bolt holes won't line up. She'll want to wallow on cornering but a helper spring leaf and rear torsion bar will steady the *** and Bilstein's all around will keep her flat.
Over sizing the front sway bar is a disaster on these cars and will cause loss of alignment in no time as the stress is transmitted to other front components. The cable shift tranny has to go. Find a 70 and up unless you already have one - their built better and give kick down on demand at any gas pedal position. PM me if you would like some pics of mine. These cars are rarely seen on most forums.
Over sizing the front sway bar is a disaster on these cars and will cause loss of alignment in no time as the stress is transmitted to other front components. The cable shift tranny has to go. Find a 70 and up unless you already have one - their built better and give kick down on demand at any gas pedal position. PM me if you would like some pics of mine. These cars are rarely seen on most forums.
rumpfox
Member
you can buy new full halve quarters for a bill a side and as flat as this car is a good body man can fab them but not for a bill a side. that's how i fixed mine week and a half finished and painted. i 60 yrs old and wanted to drive my fury not be dead and it still setting in a body shop
SeanD
New Member
So, what were the dimensions you used for the steering joints? 3/4 36 spline x 3/4 DD into 3/4 DD shaft into 3/4 DD x 5/8 36 spline? Amazon has generic black steel joints, but I can't find that exact combination. I can find the two joints for a 1" DD shaft but no shaft, or one of the two joints and a 3/4 shaft. I may just have to go black joint, stainless shaft, stainless (expensive) Borgeson joint. It'd save $50.
Here are the part numbers for the steering
FLA-FR1715DD
FLA-FR1755
I bought it all from Summitt.
FLA-FR1715DD
FLA-FR1755
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Not to awake an old thread, but looks nice! Thanks for the steering shaft info. I bought a Flaming River shaft but it was wrong. Now I know how to make it right. I was just worried about having 2 u-joints and the shaft binding because of it. Have you turned the wheels both ways? Does it turn smooth? I'm guessing with the shaft being so short, it shouldn't bind.
Yatzee
Active Member
If this is what you ended -up with when all was said and done, great minds think alike.
I think these cars were meant to be black in color with no side chrome and little in the way of badging. You've done a fabulous job on the body work and I'm so glad mine didn't need any at all after the original paint was removed to the metal.
I think these cars were meant to be black in color with no side chrome and little in the way of badging. You've done a fabulous job on the body work and I'm so glad mine didn't need any at all after the original paint was removed to the metal.
Good lord, that thing is beautiful!
BigFury
Well-Known Member
Yaztee I agree with you.. I took all the trim off of mine as well and like it much better,it's a cleaner look. And the gas tank is working great and looks like it should. Thanks again
Yatzee
Active Member
I'm not sure how you addressed filling all the trim holes but on mine, I lightly countersunk the trim holes and filled them with lead backed with small copper disks. In the future, the lead can be easily be melted out should a future owner wish to reapply the trim. Lead is much better than bondo and not as permanent as welding and sanded perfectly flush to the metal surface. That was five years ago and the body shop was amazed that although they could see the fill, they couldn't feel it or detect them after painting. No surface filler required.
BigFury
Well-Known Member
A good friend of mine did the work and got the car straight. He brazed the holes shut and hit it with a weld bead. There's no telling by touch or sight. But certainly credit to you for having a black car which only compounds the challenge.
I am keeping the side trim on mine. In my opinion it is part of the character of older cars. I did some decluttering of all the badges. The Commando V8 is gone and the Red/White/Blue bars. As well as PLYMOUTH on the hood and the Sport Fury badge on the trunk.
Updates are few and far between as the shop doing the work works at their own pace and I am good with that. If they finished i dont have a place to store it as the garage is full. I am in the process of building a new house with a bigger garage, just waiting on the final approval from the bank so the actual work can begin.
Updates are few and far between as the shop doing the work works at their own pace and I am good with that. If they finished i dont have a place to store it as the garage is full. I am in the process of building a new house with a bigger garage, just waiting on the final approval from the bank so the actual work can begin.
NitrousTuner1
Member
Great build! I too have a 65 Sport Fury that I bought in high school 20 year's ago with a long rod 383, Indy heads, 4000 convertor, 4.30's, 29 x 11.50 M & H's, Cal Tracks, NX plate system. Its my street beast. It runs 10.60's through the 3.5" exhaust and insults all the Corvette fags as the plate reads ZR WHT making fun of the ZR 1
NitrousTuner1
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ANY TIME you want to sell it Please let me know!!
Thanks
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