TB pulley etc.
I always hated the way the stock mustang throttle cable attached to the TB, and the way I have it mounted now it made no sense to wrap it way down, then way back up so I came up with my own pulley assembly.
I sourced a pulley for $6 from McMaster, and some cable ends and an adjuster from Flanders. It was quite simple to do. I just had to drill a few holes in the pulley: one for the cable barrel end and two to mount it to the original TB cable flange.
Shortened the stock cavy cable by about two feet and soldered the new barrel end on. This involves flaring the end of the cable after you push it through the barrel. The solder basically just keeps the steel part of the cable from pulling through as it cant squeeze small enough.
Made a simple steel bracket to hold the adjuster…. pretty simple really. I still need to add a return spring , but I have a plan for that, shouldnt take more than a few mins.
Painted the strut bar brackets and installed them along with the bar that I painted a few nights ago.
Installed the valve cover with new hex head hardware. I realy dont like using hex heads, but with the coil mount I couldnt access the socket cap screws to remove the cover (and remvoing the coil mount from the valve cover is a pain). Its not ideal but I can probably remove the cover in two mins.
I pretty much finished everything I had planned. I wanted to mount the MS and ground the main engine harness but there just wasnt time.
Dan