Also the XL door panels are fancier.

Pat

I used Brad Penn/PennGrade break in oil.  It's 10W30.  This was for breaking in a hydraulic flat tappet cam.  I would think you would have more leeway with a roller, so you might be okay with Valvoline VR1, which for me is cheaper and available nearby at NAPA.  Comes in 10W30 and various straight weights.

Pat

I've got a Realistic 8 track deck plugged into the Pioneer SX-550 in the basement bar.  I think it's only a player though.  And an in-dash AM/FM/8-track in the Galaxie with a small under dash Audiovox equalizer/booster, pretty much like when I had my first Galaxie in high school.

Pat

Not to disagree, just to answer the original question, here's a free link to the 1965 shop manual:

http://oldcarmanualproject.com/manuals/Ford/1965/FordMercuryShopManual/index.html

The pages at the end of chapter 9 give the initial timing specs. for the 427 8V (8 degrees BTDC), and the advance characteristics of the mechanical advance distributor.  Remember the advance specs. are in distributor degrees and RPMs.

Pat

Just for my own clarification and curiosity, are you looking for a set of pistons or just one?  My original take was you had 8 but one rolled off the workbench or hit a valve or broke a skirt or something, and you wanted a replacement identical to the other 7.

Pat

Have you tried www.searchtempest.com?  It does a google search of craigslist ads within X miles of a zip code.  It took me a few minutes to figure out but works pretty good.  Start by putting in the search terms using google's syntax.  E.g.:

1964 ford "galaxie" | "galaxy"

Put in your zip code, and select how many miles you want to search in.  Leave this kind of low to start with, as it's easy to get too many nuisance hits until you pare down your search criteria.  I suggest clicking on the "Filters" option, and selecting Search Titles Only.  This gets rid of a bunch of dealer ads where they put every conceivable keyword in to get hits.  Click the search button and you'll get a bunch of cities listed below, as it searches all these CL sites around your zip code.  Click the Open All button.  It will open a bunch of tabs (might have to allow pop-ups), one per city/area, with the results for that location.  Now just go through the tabs one by one.  There should only be a screenful or so for each site.  You can close the tabs as you go through them.  Ctrl-W works for me.  You just have to experiment with it.  If you get a bunch of irrelevant matches, adjust the search terms.  I think you can put in stuff with a minus in front to exclude those words.  If the results look okay, you can increase the distance to search from your zip.  It will open more tabs when you click Open All.

Pat

I'm gonna yell at Doug again and talk to him about it.  Even if he made stands 1/4" shorter, shimming up is pretty easy and you could shim based on the rocker arm.

Maybe include a pack of 5 shims per stand, at something like 2 @ .050, 1 @ .030 and 2 @ .020.  Don't know if that's feasible or not.

Pat

My gut tells me you could even hook it to the coil feed and it would be happy during crank and run

I was thinking the same thing.  Worst case, you could use a small relay off the coil feed, in case the EFI wanted 12V but the pink resistor wire was still in play.

Pat