What did you do with your Thunderbird Today?

[White Lincoln]

Today, I finally took the hub caps off and sanded them, wiped them down for dust and sprayed them. I tried last weekend, but the Ford wheel paint was spattering out crap, not paint. Plus, I was not sure if the Duplicolor clear coat was going to have issues with the sun. I went to AutoZoom last night and got a can of Ford wheel paint and a can of Ford wheel clear.

We will see if they turn color in a year. Pics to come.

The hubs came out a bit brighter than the wheels, but that is expected after a few years.


But from afar, the don't look to bad. Better than they did.



Old hub color:

 

[KevinVarnes]

Looks good. I believe silver is one of the hardest colors to match. The only way to get a perfect match is to repaint the wheels with the same paint. I think I've mentioned it here before, but the Rustoleum silver I used on the wheels on the '97 is a dead-on match for the OEM Ford center caps.

 

[1997ThunderbirdLXV6]

Looks great!

 

[Little Ice-Cable]

Changed the oil on It today, first time since I have owned it.

 

[Vicinity]

Did you change the filter too? I ask because I don't see any cuss words in your post

 

[Little Ice-Cable]

Did you change the filter too? I ask because I don't see any cuss words in your post

Yeah, the person who put it in before really put in in there, so that took me 45 minutes to get it off

 

[White Lincoln]

Yeah, the person who put it in before really put in in there, so that took me 45 minutes to get it off

Did you label the new filter with date and mileage?

 

[Little Ice-Cable]

Did you label the new filter with date and mileage?

Nope, but I wrote it down

 

[Grog6]

Today, I learned several things about the Stereo install in the Red cougar. First, where all the $@@@%@#@&* screws are.
Then how to unhook the satc climate controls. Third, how to unplug the connector on the radio I put in in 2005.
Fourth, that I over-tightened all the bezel screws, which broke all the tabs over the last 20 years.
I started before noon, and just finished. Jeez, it sucks getting old, 42 is much better than 62.
If the weather holds, I'm going in with new wiring tomorrow. New Monster Rca cables, and the battery relocation cables.
I've got to mount the Capacitor on the Amp board, add a new power splitter block, drill holes in the firewall for the weather seals, and mount the battery box, Power is going down the pass side, rca's down the drivers side.
I've also got to run wiring for the wideband

 

[Ericv8thunderbird]

That stinks, but I don't know if I should be sad that it broke down or disappointed that you didn't have a spare TFI module and special tool in the glove box. I'll give you a pass since it just got painted and you probably had the interior gutted or something and hadn't put it back in yet

It’s still not fully put together. But I replaced the TFI today and turns out that wasn’t it, looks like it might be the PIP. So I have one on order.

 

[CDsDontBurn]

Moved her to the garage and started working on her!





Aside from the UCA (because I'm using it to hold the brake caliper up) everything is now torn apart from the driver side. My boy was helping me with a good chunk of this tear down, and he's all for it! I have him using the impact drill to get stuff off, showing him how to do the double wrench thing for extra leverage/torque and I'm sure more stuff will come.