Bought this shifter thinking it would fit my toploader going in my Falcon but found the correct shifter online. Shifter works as it should. A little loose feeling but still functioning. One of the rods had a piece of treaded rod welded in. Pretty sure it is the factory shifter for a Falcon. $200 obo.

Been looking for a while with not much luck. We are rebuilding dad's 65 Falcon and installed a D7DR top loader imposter 3 speed with overdrive and can't find a shifter assembly for it. Anybody got anything?

I recently pulled a 5.0 from a wrecked mustang my uncle has had in his yard since the mid 90's. Car only had 32,000 miles on it. The machine shop said that the block looked good and to save some money we could use the factory forged pistons if I wanted. Being this is going in a 65 Falcon that will be driven a couple times a month I was good with that. I had a set of GT40 3 bar heads so I had those cleaned up and a valve job done on them and Comp 972 springs that the builder at the machine shop says will work with the cam he ordered me. Car has 3.73 gears and I've had the AOD from the mustang built. Will also be using the stock EFI setup. I can't find any cam off the shelf that has the same specs. The paperwork he gave me says Hydraulic Roller 270 advertised duration, .214/220 @ .050, 482/496 lift w/1.6, 512/527 lift w/1.7, 112 LSA. Since getting the cam and springs from him I have heard from several people that the builder has a less than desirable reputation. Does this sound like it will work for what I am doing and do the springs look like they will work?

Had a 69 F100 with a 360 and I dropped one and left it in the pan. Was the stock front sump pan. After a couple years in there it decided to somehow hit the crank and come out the side of the oil pan when I was on the ramp putting the boat in the lake. I heard a bang and oil pressure started dropping. Found half of it still in the pan mangled up.

Thanks, My papa had a terrible experience with Bill years ago and was left with a big hole in his pocket and no parts. He tried several times to get in touch with no luck. He passed in 2017 and when I saw the ad I wanted to make sure it was not Bill's operation using a different name like I am pretty sure he did with us before. Never was able to speak to him, it was always one of his goons. Pretty sure that goon was him though.

Do you want to hear the parallel universe version of "scrap"?  Sure you do.

My time was with the military.  There are rules about who owns the trash, scrap...everything, and what you can't do.  Rules in the military are laws with the added benefit of you not just being fired for breaking the rules, but also being jailed.

There is no such thing as something you can fish out of the dumpster and call it yours.  It is always the property of the military.  Now, you might not get punished for fishing out a snot rag, but if it's a piece of scrap metal, an old cabinet or whatever, you stand a good chance of being in trouble if you try to make it yours.  Aircraft maintenance facilities go through a lot of sheet metal and billet material.  They have a scrap bin and that is picked up by a recycler for which the military is paid.  So, if there's a tiny corner of 2024 aluminum sheet and you take it out of the bin, you are breaking the law.  Yes, people do get punished for this.  It's pretty common.  It seems so trivial, but if you allow a little bit of it, then you open it for anything.  So that's why the military can be brutal when it comes to what's theirs.

I knew of one guy who was having a car problem.  He went to the workshop and borrowed a screwdriver to fix the problem and returned it.  He received a reprimand for using government property for personal use.

At the same time, there are examples of people stealing brand new expensive crap out of supply.  A lot of times, they don't get caught.  It just depends.

I work at a maintenance depot for the military and we literally throw away bolts, washers and nuts by the thousands when we are cleaning up from one project and moving to another. All grade 8 in almost every size imaginable. Is so much waste. But as far as taking anything from here, the only thing they allow to be taken is wood from crates, broken pallets and mock up fixtures. They caught a guy going out the back gate with a bunch of wood and asked to see his wood permit and while the MP was looking it over he noticed a bunch of rusty nails the man had pulled from the scrap bin and had in a bucket. He was required to empty his trailer and lost his security clearance in the next month or so. They have zero tolerance for taking anything from this place even though they are just throwing it away.

We had a junkyard close a few years ago and I ran into the old owner yesterday. We got to talking about when I pulled a 390 s code intake, as a teen, and walked it up to the counter from the back of the yard and he gave it to me. Told me he figured I had worked hard enough for it. Then he brought up that he had three FE engines sitting in the barn at his house. He said he knows nothing about what they were pulled from but they have been in the barn since he was running the junkyard from his house, probably the mid-70's. He offered them to me for $400. I am going next week to check them out. What should I look for and does it seem like a good deal? I know there is a possibility I could end up with three 360's but beyond that would I be able to break even selling parts off of them? I don't have a use for them but would hate to see them meet the same fate as everything that was in the yard. It was all crushed and scraped.