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Offline fast66

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65 spare tire - pin or hook?
« on: April 25, 2024, 08:20:43 AM »
Hi, we had a discussion about when the change from slot/pin to loop/hook for fastening the spare tire, happened?
I read something about a TSB from feb1 -65 but someone else said "early" -65...

Anyone in the group that can clarify when this change happened?

Thanks,
Claes
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Offline CharlesTurner

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Re: 65/66 spare tire - pin or hook?
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2024, 11:28:20 AM »
I've seen the slide plate on early February '65 San Jose cars, so the TSB is generally correct.
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Re: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2024, 04:13:48 PM »
If your looking for an exact date we will not have that since we don't have real build dates for any of these early cars and if possibly varied a little depending on car assembly plant. We see that your likely looking for NJ built data


Yes there is a running changes thread on the subject by plant unfortunately given the area most of the NJ cars were sold to and the resulting rust in many of the examples we don't have as much examples that have not been repaired or restored. For example we've got San Jose (so far) down to late Jan 65 so basically early Feb is in the possible range also.

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Re: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2024, 04:49:49 PM »
The 1965 Mustang Body Assembly Manual (AM0006) pg 86 (the page number is blurred on my copy - ref N5-8930) shows the addition of the spare wheel plate, C5ZB-1424-A, and "hook" bolt, C5AB-1448-B, both with an effective date of 10-9-64.
This does not really establish an absolute date, but a Ford engineering change to an assembly line procedure. We know that Ford used up existing items in many cases.
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Re: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2024, 05:38:25 PM »
my october 23 dearborn 2+2 has the slide plate.
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Re: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2024, 12:12:01 AM »
My October 29, 64 SJ fastback is the early slide style
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Re: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2024, 01:56:10 AM »
A previous car of mine, a DB build mid-Dec 64 fastback had the early-style slide plate/carriage bolt spare tire hold down. 5F09C376xxx .

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Re: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2024, 02:11:38 AM »
Guys it looks like (according to the OPs signature) he is looking for NJ built cars/examples.  ;)
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Re: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2024, 05:06:26 AM »
Thanks for all your responses! I understand that there can be factory specific details but this is quite sufficient ;-) Again Thanks!

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Re: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2024, 02:36:45 PM »
My son?s 1/19/65 scheduled build Dearborn car has the slide.