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Offline KyWhitec5

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Shock Tower Outer Cover Correct Bolt Direction- 65 SJ
« on: June 09, 2020, 06:07:35 PM »
I have seen conflicting pics of "Non Restored" Vehicles that have the Outer Shock Tower Cover bolts installed differently.  Some cars have the bolt head in the engine compartment and some cars have the Nuts on the engine side.  Which is correct for a January 65 San Jose Car ?
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Offline Bob Gaines

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Re: Shock Tower Outer Cover Correct Bolt Direction
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2020, 06:16:09 PM »
I have seen conflicting pics of "Non Restored" Vehicles that have the Outer Shock Tower Cover bolts installed differently.  Some cars have the bolt head in the engine compartment and some cars have the Nuts on the engine side.  Which is correct for a January 65 San Jose Car ?
Bolt head on engine compartment side for 65 San Jose Car. Other way is most notably done at the Metuchen plant in 68 .
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Re: Shock Tower Outer Cover Correct Bolt Direction - 65 SJ
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2020, 07:24:22 PM »
I have seen conflicting pics of "Non Restored" Vehicles that have the Outer Shock Tower Cover bolts installed differently................ 

Were these on cars in the unrestored picture section of the site or just some examples found in magazines or the web? Might be mixing examples from different plants or time periods.

Which is correct for a January 65 San Jose Car ?

Just like has been offered - bolts inserted from the engine compartment outward with nuts in the wheel wells. 


For other owners and focusing just on the year Dearborn is reversed (nuts on the engine compartment side). On NJ cars I found them being installed like San Jose 65's. Sources for unrestored NJ 65's are limited compared to the other two plants
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Re: Shock Tower Outer Cover Correct Bolt Direction- 65 SJ
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2020, 01:31:43 AM »
Thanks !!!
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Offline J_Speegle

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Re: Shock Tower Outer Cover Correct Bolt Direction- 65 SJ
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2020, 03:17:31 PM »
I have two June K code convertibles, less than 100 units apart.  Bolts heads on the inside of the engine compartment on one, heads in the fender well on the other.  Also interesting is that the fender top bolts on one use star washer, on the other disk washer.

That would be very unusual for a San Jose built car IMHO given the great numbers of examples available on San Jose cars. Would IMHO suggest (seen it before) that the bolts were removed and replaced in a different direction when reinstalled. That use to often be seen on restored cars where they were built in a different part of the country and copied unrestored cars built at another (more local to the builders) plant.

Does this happen to be on the same car and the same side as the fender with the later raised triangle reliefs in the fender on a 64 built car? As you mentioned in another post.

Could have even explained the replacement of one or more of the bolts.  Suggest that looking at other cars built at the same time might provide some addition light on the subject since it would be odd that a worker who has done thousands changed up for just one car.  Just exploring through discussion
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Re: Shock Tower Outer Cover Correct Bolt Direction- 65 SJ
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2020, 08:35:41 PM »
These are both June 64 (Dearborn) cars.  From the undisturbed appearance of the undercoating in the wheel wells, and covering most of the bolts, the fenders haven't been off.  I have seen others where the bolt heads are in the wheel well, including the unrestored summer 64 car here http://www.concoursmustang.com/forum/index.php?topic=20324.0
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Re: Shock Tower Outer Cover Correct Bolt Direction- 65 SJ
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2020, 09:09:07 PM »
These are both June 64 (Dearborn) cars.  From the undisturbed appearance of the undercoating in the wheel wells, and covering most of the bolts, the fenders haven't been off.

Since you posted to a San Jose discussion without noting the plant I took that you were reporting a San Jose detail will move your original post over to the new Dearborn discussion thread and delete these two in a couple of days so that I can be assured you have seen this 
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