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gunn said:
Copper is supposed to be as harder or harder than aluminum on the MOS scale depending on the aluminum alloy (3 vs 2.5-3).
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Hard drawn or soft rolled ? Annealed copper is much easier to bend.
 
I think any of these regardless of material are annealed so they seal.
 
Not a photo but a really interesting video, no 10th gen t-birds but a 2001 concept, I really dig the 98 bronco concept, a heavy-duty bronco is really interesting
 
Union job! 😂

My goal was to drive my Tbird’s as much as possible this year, but this is really killing that goal. The street is a total mess, and the chin spoilers on both cars are just dirt plows getting into the driveway.

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Ericv8thunderbird said:
Union job! 😂

My goal was to drive my Tbird’s as much as possible this year, but this is really killing that goal. The street is a total mess, and the chin spoilers on both cars are just dirt plows getting into the driveway.
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How long has that been going on? What are they digging for? Water, sewer, or ???
 
Trunk Monkey said:
How long has that been going on? What are they digging for? Water, sewer, or ???
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Water lines, they’ve been at it since the end of June, and recently started digging up most of the street.
My water has been free since then though because we’re hooked up to a fire hydrant, and the water is back fed into my house.
Kinda bummed about not being able to get my cars out so easily, our daily drivers are a mess.
 
Ericv8thunderbird said:
Union job! 😂
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Hey .. 🤔

I see one operator, a supervisor, a signal man and a competent person ( dirt inspector ) .. takes a team to do the job right.

They're doing something similar in my neighborhood. So far they've only potholed to determine soil conditions for the water mains; if there are too many rocks, the gopher won't work and they'll have to trench across the street. That was a month ago and they haven't been back since.
 
Jae 'Bird said:
Not a photo but a really interesting video, no 10th gen t-birds but a 2001 concept, I really dig the 98 bronco concept, a heavy-duty bronco is really interesting
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I’m honestly shocked the V10 Mustang still exists, I had heard years ago the body got crushed and the engine from it transferred into the Cobra concept car.
 
Had a stowaway today, unfortunately the pic is blurry. It's a bumble bee, she held on surprisingly long especially at 80.
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What are the odds I’d replace all the brake lines in the Cougar for clean western car ones and I’d blow out rusted a hardline in the Focus the day after I sorted them out???😭

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CDsDontBurn said:
Brake lines on the Fusion @XR7-4.6 ?
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Focus, but yes…(again)…ish lol
MadMikeyL said:
Is that a rear brake delete? Hence the “ish”?
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Well one of them, yes. Conveniently it’s a 4 circuit master so this easily took the rotten circuit out of the equation until I get a new line so at least it’s drivable and not oozing brake fluid everywhere in the mean time. I want nicop for the new line and all the local stores I tried would have to order it so this is the temporary fix until probably next weekend. Ford also has hardlines still available new for not much money which if I can get the rusty union busted loose that’s even better. It rotted on the master side, not the drum end that goes all the way across the floor pan believe it or not.

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Apparently this is not what the speedometer needle is supposed to look like when you take it off. Trying to replace the speedometer on Doug Williams' '89 SC today. He got a used one for it a while back. I had the brilliant idea to change out the odometer gears before installing it since why not. The needle on the '89 speedometer popped right off with the fork trick. The needle on the new one would not come off at all. Fork trick, twisty/turny, etc. Nothing. I went out to grab some tools and came back in and he said he got the needle off. I tried getting that pin out with pliers and it was NOT coming out. Oh well. Need to find a new speedometer head again I suppose.
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KevinVarnes said:
Apparently this is not what the speedometer needle is supposed to look like when you take it off. Trying to replace the speedometer on Doug Williams' '89 SC today. He got a used one for it a while back. I had the brilliant idea to change out the odometer gears before installing it since why not. The needle on the '89 speedometer popped right off with the fork trick. The needle on the new one would not come off at all. Fork trick, twisty/turny, etc. Nothing. I went out to grab some tools and came back in and he said he got the needle off. I tried getting that pin out with pliers and it was NOT coming out. Oh well. Need to find a new speedometer head again I suppose.
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The 89 speedometer is different than the 90-96 ones, same thing happened to me, I actually wanted the needle to replace the one I had broke, pulled the stub out with it just like that.

I’m not even 100% the odo gears are the same as the later ones, the odometer is visibly different


Snipped off the brake line from the fitting in the vain hope I can get a socket over the fitting. Also gives me an opportunity to measure it and lay out the new one from it. Rotted 3” up through the “protective” conduit

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XR7-4.6 said:
The 89 speedometer is different than the 90-96 ones, same thing happened to me, I actually wanted the needle to replace the one I had broke, pulled the stub out with it just like that.

I’m not even 100% the odo gears are the same as the later ones, the odometer is visibly different
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Yes it is different. Allegedly 89 and some of 90 use the same speedometer. He had the odo gears for the later speedometer so the new one we had was just fine. Just couldn't get the needle off cleanly.
 
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