My new car adventure, 1966 Ford Thunderbird

[LuckyHenriksen]

Sweet. I love old 60's cars

[JasonC]

Nice to see progress being made. Cant wait for pictures of the car all cleaned up!

[quickervicar]

I'm wondering if you didn't reattach a loose vacuum line when working on the carb & fixed the phantom brakes without realizing it.

[eurohick.]

thats the model with the column that tilts out of the way when you exit. sweet.

Looks like a cool old boat. i think ive totally forgottten how to dick around with point ignition, i know an electronic one is pretty inexpensive for these.

The dieseling is most likely due to the car running super rich still.

[equate975]

Yeah a points conversion kit is only like $50 from summit for this car, I think I will leave it alone for now since it seems to be working fine, maybe some day in the future I will convert it if it becomes to much of a pita.

I would suspect the dieseling to be from running rich and deposits on the plugs that are still glowing once the car is shut down.

[eurohick.]

id only say to do it because you then have a car that runs alot better all the time, especially in crappy weather. the MPG's dont hurt either.

And youre correct. lucky you dont have a car to melt down in that beast :p