The new turn signal

My old turn signal doesn't always blink when I turn right and it's getting annoying not to mention that it's dangerous when people can't see me indicating my directions. So it needs to be fixed.

I could take it out and fix it but I have ordered a new one to simply replace it. Maybe I'll still fix it, someday but for now I want a working turn signal.

So I bought this Scott Drake replica that I received today.

It looks very nice and shiny and complete. This is the front.

This is the back. Stay tuned for the actual replacement.

My Mustang in a calendar!

My Mustang is featured in the 2017 Car of the Month calendar of the 7173Mustangs.com forum! I think this is pretty cool and I'm also very proud of it :-)

If you want a calendar for yourself, you can buy them here, at LuLu's.

Fixing the distributor

So... Apparently I was missing this little wire in my distributor. Someone pointed that out to me after seeing the picture of my wire-less dizzy. How was I supposed to know? Some former owner must have removed it. The wire is critical because it grounds the ignition module. Without proper grounding the ignition goes to shits. So I made my own cable.

I installed the wire in the distributor, checked everything a few times over and put everything back together.

Then I started my car and guess what? It fired the first time! See the clip below:

Installing Pertronix Ignitor II and Flamethrower II.

So today I went to my car to replace the old points in my distributor with a brand new Pertronix Ignitor II module. Also the coil was going to be replaced with a Pertronix Flamethrower II.

Big surprise when I popped the distributor cap off. There was a Pertronix Ignitor I (older version which is still sold) in it! Well, that saved me a bit of work ripping out the old stuff at least.

I also replaced the rotor. The old one is burned too bad for my liking.

So that's the base plate that I need to install the new module on. I noticed that I can move it with my finger a bit. Not sure if it's supposed to.

Here's everything installed. It wasn't too hard. Unfortunately it didn't fix my starting issues so the next post will most likely about finding TDC and setting the initial timing...