Saving Granddad's Falcon

[dhbfaster]

Any body know where to get a new gasket that fits the gas cap?

[Luva65wagon]

You'll probably have to make one, Don. You might find a new cap (maybe an aftermarket cap) with a similar size gasket, but some good heavy gasket material and a razor knife should make one.

[dhbfaster]

My wife ordered the starter this morning. I decided to spring for a new one from Autozone. I’m growing tired of this reman stuff on this and other parts in the past, and all the bad reviews on the online websites selling starters seem to be for the reman’s. Anyway 20% off for going online, but it has to go to my house next week. Plenty of other stuff to work on while I wait.

Roger, on the Pertronix...I’m thinking about just skipping the hassle and time to mess with the points and going right to the pertronix. It seems like we can get this done “virtually” one way or another and seems like the way to go. So...how are you getting that new added 12v wire through the firewall? What are you using for the T connector? Can you send a pic of that?

[Luva65wagon]

Don, because you want to maintain the pink resistance wire for your coil, you need to make a little male bullet connector on one end, female on the other, wire having a long (probably 18 gauge) wire tee'd into it to feed the Pertronix. I could make you one tomorrow and mail it off to you if you'd like.

You may have a spare hole already in the firewall to sneak this wire through and run it to the distributor. You'll have to poke around and see what you might have. Otherwise a small hole drilled with a grommet could be made in a hidden-ish location.

Hope we sleuthed out the starter problem correctly. Fingers crossed.

[dhbfaster]

Well I tried the new thumbnail pic from the iPad...it doesn’t take the new pic up for some reason.

So I got the timing advanced and the idle back closer to 500 when warm but it seems to idle a bit rough. (Pertronix installed) overall runs great, especially going up hills at lower rpm...which is much smoother and stronger now-but it just seems like a cylinder is missing now and then- especially noticeable at idle.

all the cable connections seem good. Now that I have a more powerful coil, should I check or change the gap on the plugs or change to a different plug?



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[Luva65wagon]

When it's at idle in the garage, and warmed up, adjust the air/fuel mixture screw (base of the carburetor - not the idle screw, the other one) until the idle speed just stops increasing at that pedal position. Might be all you need to do.

[dkutz]

Just read all 42 pages of this post and oh boy so much info. Great car Don. Maybe some day our 62 Falcon will look that good.

Question on the tires...are your new ones closer to the stock diameter as the originals? The tires on ours are small and causes high rpm driving at highway speeds.