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They make cross over block off plates for SBs never seen  or at least recall seeing them for sale for BB of any kind. Might be a small market for someone that wanted to get crafty at home in the garage,  With a couple of patterns I would start with a chunk of hard wood, trace the pattern and relief out with a bur head or drimmel tool then shape some plates and hammer them for a depression to hold them in place. SB ones are fairly thin metal so that they don't get in the way of the posts sealing (too thick of sheet metal)

Just a thought about a possibility

Thanks for the input. I am leaning towards a .030 piece of stainless in the gasket cut out for the heat riser port just enough oversize to keep from falling in and silicone the plate in with the gasket . At least until I hear a better procedure.

That's pretty much exactly what I did with mine. I used Permatex Ultra copper gasket sealer to hold them in place. That was back in 2012 and to this day the paint still hasn't come off the intake manifold so I assume they're working pretty well.

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I put a 30 over 428 C scratch block on a scale years ago and as I recall I think it was 173 pounds. I didn't weigh the crank. A Cobra Jet intake was 74 pounds.

I'm gonna give it a try. I ordered the clutch, pilot bushing & the pedal roller conversion.

So I'm finally installing my Newly built big in big out wide ratio top loader in my station wagon and I decided to check the clutch (Centerforce Dual Friction) and pilot bushing while I was that far into it. Lots of wear on both. I was never really happy with the clutch anyway so I want to try the RAM 98988 3 finger clutch ($599.00 on Amazon). Has anyone tried it out? Any reviews?

Okay, I've learned that all hood hinges are the same for 1968 Mustangs. However, KRs with their fiberglass hoods, require different springs. Having said, that I now see that the repro hinges available don't look like the originals on my car, one of which is defective. Is there someone who can  recondition and refurbish my old hinges? Thanks Steve

There are early and late hood hinges. From what I've been told, 1967 style hinges were used until around March of 1968 depending on the plant. (I lost points for having the early hinges on my May 7th, 1968 built Dearborn Mustang in MCA concourse trailered). The late hinges were used from around March 1968 until the end of 1970 production. Most original hinges are date coded. There are also reports of some cars having an early hinge on side and a late hinge on the other. Do your homework before spending any money on hinges.
https://anghelrestorations.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/hood_hinges_v1.1.pdf

We are leaving Wednesday morning. Looking forward to event (just not the 1000-mile drive one way with the old truck and closed trailer). 

One can only imagine how many other great films he might have made.

Yes. However guys like him in Hollywood during his last days were dying out. McQueen's 'The Hunter' and 'Tom Horn' films were flops at the box office. John Wayne died a year earlier in 1979. By 1981, him and other legendary actors were pretty much finished. The 1980's brought in a new wave of actors like Sean Penn, Brad Pit, Alley Sheedy, etc. The 'Brat Pack' was the rage. Sad, but true.

True. Who's left? Clint Eastwood, 93 and Gene Hackman, 94 come to mind.

Thanks for the info.

When I've done bearings, I've noticed the retainers are not always the same thickness with the aftermarket bearings. If you have a thinner bearing retainer, I'm thinking it's going to push the sleeve too far and it will not contact the seal correctly. Do you know how thick the factory Ford bearing retainer is?

So a friend of mine says the seal spacer (sleave) should be positioned closer to the tapered Edge where the seal rides. I say it should be closer to the center of where the seal rides to get maximum seal effect. Who is right or are we both wrong and the position is somewhere else? His 1970 shop manual seems to have no mention of the seal spacer at all.

Found it on U Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4CGuAaAdmQ

If you search YouTube for 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302- Unrestored Survivor a poster called Callaway Classics posted a nice video of a green undercarriage.

In the video you suggested, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTak2_MrgQs that car appears to have almost no under coating on the floors and wheel wells. Also no seam sealer on the seat belt mounts. was it removed or is that typical of production? If you look at my second picture, the undercoating on this car spreads from just past the transmission tunnel to the rocker panels on both sides and in the wheel wells. When it was sprayed, it appears the worker was standing under where the right-side muffler sits as that seems the be the spray pattern direction.  It is also sprayed lightly in the tunnel above the transmission closer to the firewall where the firewall and floor pan come together. I don't think it was dealer applied because there is no way a dealer could have sprayed it there without removing the transmission. This car also was a California delivery with the extra emissions hardware. The green on that car is sprayed pretty much exactly how this car is painted front to rear.

Here are some pictures of the transmission tunnel area. Disregard any redoxide primer you might see in the pictures. The owner didn't know the green was correct and painted a little of red oxide over it.

I was putting a transmission in my friend's 70 Boss 302 today (going from a close ratio transmission to a wide ratio transmission) and I couldn't help but notice it's obviously green undercarriage instead of the usual red oxide primer you would normally see. This is an unrestored undercarriage and it is clearly all the original paint under there. This car has a mid January build date from Dearborn. Are there any other 70 Boss 302s in this time frame with this unusual green undercarriage paint? It's kind of like lime gold metallic without the metallic. Just for reference, some years back I worked on someone's 73 Mustang convertible that was light blue that also had this green paint on the undercarriage and this car was light blue and had 19,000 original miles on it.