Search results for query: *

Posted the Ford part number above and the rod is out of some VW or Audi. Can probably make you own rod quite easily.

Found a retainer that works well. Shhh. It's a Ford clip, D5ZZ-16828-B. Found it via a Dorman hood rod clip assortment pack. Fits better than what was on the car when I got it. Hood rod is for a VW or Audi. Fits perfect for the AAR hood. Thought I'd share the findings in case others aren't...

You are probably right. I have the AAR fiberglass hood. Not sure where the previous owner must have gotten the rod and clip from.

Please help me not feel like an idiot for not being able to locate a hood prop rod retainer clip for a 71 Duster. For the life of me I have not been successful with Google. Much appreciation in advance! Edit: It has an AAR hood and, as vitamindart pointed out, the rod and retainer are not...

Installed a Grant wheel and adapter to get the wheel straight. Everything is straight in the front end and in the steering wheel. Turn signal works as well. Thanks everyone for the help! On a related note, I have a Tuff wheel and rimblow adapter for sale.

Not sure if you saw above but this place is not an alignment shop. They do muscle car resto and pro touring setups. Since they don't have a rack they have another shop do the alignment. That's where things fell apart. I have never used this shop before. Good shop, just bad alignment sourcing. I...

This weekend I'll be installing a new steering wheel anyways so I will have a normal wheel and hope to fix the signal cam thing.

I just went with a Firm Feel factory ratio manual box this last week. I love it. They hand build per order and are cool guys to talk to. The box feels solid and turns with ease.

An update on the outcome today: The shop agreed the tie rods should be more even than what we had. They were cool about taking the car in to even them back out and they sent the car back to their alignment shop source for proper toe. When they got it back they measured the tie rods again to...

Perfect. On mine the drivers side is 4 turns out more than the passengers (9 threads vs 5 threads). So two in and two out makes them practically even. It should put that wheel where it needs to be if 2 turns moved your wheel 90 degrees. This is what we will tell the shop to do. We also ordered...

Ok. Ya I hope that evening out the tie rods will cure everything. There are 8 extra threads showing on the drivers side. I know they won't be perfect but I think that's enough to throw the wheel off.

Ok that makes sense. I'll make them do as I did to find the box center, readjust the tie rods to match the tires to the box, then flip the couple 180 to get the wheel right side up.

Thanks again fellas. I got to the car today and checked all this stuff out. Here are the findings: I moved the wheel lock to lock and found the general center of the box. Depending on if I start from the left or right then move 2.5 turns the centers are off by 1/4 turn or so. But basically...

Thanks guys. I went to a muscle car only shop so it baffles me why they sent the car out like that. Needless to say I was pissed and disappointed. I take it back on Tuesday. In the mean time I'll have the ducks in a row to tell them what they did, or didn't do. I'll measure the tie rods, lock...

Hi all, I just had a new front end put on the 71 Duster (with 73 disc brake swap). A shop did the install and when I got the car back the steering wheel was clocked about 100 degrees off. My question is how can it be clocked back properly? The shop said they only replaced the manual box...

Bill was great to deal with. I received them today which was a fast shipment. They look nicer thN the pics show and they were wrapped up nicely. They'll get some new paint and will go on the Duster very soon. Thanks Bill!