Hey guy's I have the same probelm with my 62. The rings are starting to wear out and I get the smokey issue ALOT when sitting at a red light. Last year I put a...
Cometeers, Happy New Years.. I relieved a message in the Comet East mailbox from a Mr. Rex Myers who informs me he is restoring one of the lightweight 65 ...
Tom -- I saw that as well... As the owner of a carnival red, 4-speed, 65 Cyclone, I found it particularly neat that Steve's car was featured. That said, there...
2007 begins to roll along.06 is of the past but was a great year for Comet East Car Club. Check out our website (cometeastcarclub.org) for pictures of past...
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Jan 1, 2007 5:30 pm
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Interestingly, I sent an email (correcting him on his Hi-Po availability assertions) to Jim Smart earlier today and got a nearly instant response. Seems like a...
Happy New Year, Mike! Nels says it was the coolest.....his buddies were jealous (sp?) but "supper stoked" about it. I have my copy on the office wall...so Jan...
When i bought my 65 comet it was in pieces. I do not know what it came with originally as far as the spring isolators is concerned. On page 104 of the 2006...
All -- As I said yesterday, I'd sent Jim Smart, the Senior Editor at Mustang and Fords Magazine, a letter correcting his assertion that there never were ...
Cometeers, Happy New Year.. I have just finished updating the Comet East Website for 2007. I have created several all new home pages that I will rotate, added...
Happy New Year Don...... looking forward to seeing you at the shows and i thank you for the clubs wonderful web site.........Rock and roll........Pete ...
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Jan 2, 2007 3:33 pm
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65 Comet was available with the 271 hp engine thru special order only. The dealers did have brochures available with the info on the chassis and driveline ...
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Jan 2, 2007 4:10 pm
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the car/parts are located in santa cruz ca. ... From: Buschbrett@... To: Comet64man@... Sent: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 7:17 PM Subject: Re: 1967 ford ranchero...
Hello, just in , a 64 comet caliente steering wheel in great cond. Looks like a new one. I would rate this wheel at a 9.7......... . Will be using e-bay in the...
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Jan 2, 2007 7:35 pm
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Pete eBay is only a useful tool for guys like you and I when we have hard to find parts or something no one else has. Rare hard to find parts fetch $$ during...
Pete -- That information is great! That is why I solicited it. I'd never heard about the 2.25-inch exhaust (my Cyclone's original is tiny -- I have no idea how...
Rick I am looking at the Master Parts Catalogue as I have neither the AK book nor the 65 Shop manual. 66 67 68 69 70 73 as well as 70 Truck I have .... So the...
lol I also lift an eyebrow when I read about the single exhaust. Mercury really was trying to give their competitors every chance... Great info thanks lol ...
In 1968 I bought a 1964 Fairlane sport cpe with a 289 hipo and it had factory single exhaust. I remember I was surprised that it didn't have dual exhaust. ...
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Jan 3, 2007 12:53 am
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PETE, 65 CYCLONE HI-PO ALSO HAD A LARGER DIA. DRIVE-SHAFT, AND REMOVEABLE SPRING TOWER BRACES, BOLT IN STYLE. I ONCE PEGGED MY 65 MUSTANG 2 PLUS 2 WITH THE...
Sure did.....Happy New Year Mike.........Pete [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Jan 3, 2007 2:32 am
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Great job Don! Great page. Joe ... From: Mercury_s55 <mercury_s55@...> To: Comet-List@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2007 6:19:59 AM Subject:...
All, So the 4 speed on my '63 S-22 has throws a mile long. I pinch my fingers between the heater knobs and the shifter going in to reverse when the heat is on...
My 65 convert. has what appears to be rubber wrapped around the springs. It has never been changed and came that way new. Frank [Non-text portions of this...
there's one bolt on the oil pan you have to take off,for the little bracket that hold it in place just remove that oil pan bolt and it's just pressend into the...
Common problem on falcon - comets. you can try shorter shift linkage arms on the tranny itself or locate a shift handle off a galaxie or fairlanes. The shift...
