Tex-cat restoration by XR7-Gry

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Thanks for posting those pictures. It is nice to see other cars with the same color but with a few details done different than we have planned for Tex-cat. 

Our goal was to get the transmission and engine block installed before Christmas, and we made it just in time. Since the original engine mounts were broken we had a set of reproductions ordered from Mustangs Unlimited. Maybe it is just my usual bad luck, but man we struggled to make those fit. I sometimes wonder if they have any quality control on the parts they sell at all. Oh well, I adjusted them to fit properly with a good sledgehammer and a file.  
Usually I fully assemble the engine before I have it installed, but in this case as we had the cylinder heads shipped the slow way in a container to Norway, and the container is supposed to be here sometimes in January, so the rest of the engine will be put together then. The container also contains a rust free hood from Arizona, so painting of the car will have to wait until we have all the body parts ready. That means there will be a pause in the work until the container is here. (That means I am going to Thailand on a vacation in January  )

12-30-2011

I told that we would keep our hands off the car until we had more parts. Well, we had a lot of bad weather here not suited for moving the car to my brothers garage lately, and it is hard to just look at it doing nothing so we got a few more things done the last couple of days. We got the gas tank and fuel lines installed, rear brakes are back on it including new parking brake cables, we got the brake booster and master cylinder back in the car and also installed the restored A/C and heater box. Most everything on this car is going smooth and quick, so this is a fun car to work on. 

Yesterday we finally had the cat moved to my brothers place. 



Now , there is one part I have found that we really need. Maybe someone here can help? The bolt on the center link going into the idler arm had been replaced with a non correct bolt that is just a little too small. As a result there is a little play in the idler arm and I really need the correct bolt for it. These bolts are pressed into the center drag link, and not easy to find without buying the complete unit. I would prefer to just get the bolt shipped as shipping the whole link to Norway would be somewhat expensive. So if someone has a bent center drag link, or even a good one and can get the bolt pressed out of it and shipped to me, please let me know . Thanks.