Winter project pretty much finished

[AlanCasida]

My winter project this year was to pull the engine out of my '67 F250 and detail it and the engine compartment. I also added a slim line underdash a/c from Old Air Products so I am ready to cruise in the heat this year. It only took about 1 1/2 months longer than I figured which wasn't too bad. We won't talk about how much more it cost than I figured, lol.

PS... Sorry for the big pictures I don't know how to change the size setting on my phone. If I even can.

[machyoung]

Beauty!

[Stangman]

Very nice

[cjshaker]

Looks good, Alan. What's the red pull knob on the shifter and the black box on the drivers inner fender for? I'm guessing the switch and some sort of meter on the ashtray lid are related to the black box? AC related?

[AlanCasida]

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[My427stang]

Very nice, are you happy with the a/c?  Planning one for my 71 this year.

[AlanCasida]

Very nice, are you happy with the a/c?  Planning one for my 71 this year.

So far I like it. It's quieter than the OEM heater fan. When I charged it it was around 70 deg out and it was putting out 38 deg air idling in the shop.  The unit mounted using existing holes in the dash. Running the lines was a little problematic. They came out right at the curve of the floor hump and right on the floor. I had the motor out when I put the unit in and that helped a bunch. I tried rotating the evaporator coil which put the line fittings way over on the passenger side. That gave more room for the fittings but put them right over the cab tower mount. If I had to do it again I would have looked into that arrangement more deeply and possibly I could have ran the lines out through the front access panel of the cab tower. Also I fabbed my own a/c compressor mount to put the compressor on the passenger side of the motor under the alternator. Also I added the wood grain to give it a more period look and to break up all the black. It's basically a standard under dash unit with a large air distributor attached to the front.

[AlanCasida]

Looks good, Alan. What's the red pull knob on the shifter and the black box on the drivers inner fender for? I'm guessing the switch and some sort of meter on the ashtray lid are related to the black box? AC related?

The red knob is for the Gear Vendor overdrive and I put the control switches on a panel that replaces the ash tray. The black box is the cruise control. I be stylin’ in this rig.

[cjshaker]

The red knob is for the Gear Vendor overdrive and I put the control switches on a panel that replaces the ash tray. The black box is the cruise control. I be stylin’ in this rig.

I should have recognized the GV Overdrive hardware. 
Cruise control? How does that work? The only ones I recall, beyond the modern electronic "fly by wire" systems, were the old vacuum operated ones. That doesn't look like one of those. Do you have a link to the system?

[AlanCasida]

The red knob is for the Gear Vendor overdrive and I put the control switches on a panel that replaces the ash tray. The black box is the cruise control. I be stylin’ in this rig.

I should have recognized the GV Overdrive hardware. 
Cruise control? How does that work? The only ones I recall, beyond the modern electronic "fly by wire" systems, were the old vacuum operated ones. That doesn't look like one of those. Do you have a link to the system?

It is made by Rostra and uses a servo motor rather than vacuum. For me the quality is hit and miss. This one works fine but I put one on my Galaxie and I couldn't not get it to work properly then it quit all together.  As far as I know the vacuum models are no longer made. I would have preferred an old Audiovox unit but they are gone.