57 manual passenger window will not roll up completely

[Navydad181]

Yeah the window repair is quite a relief and the price was right just some sweat :yesnod

I had already removed the dash prior to the window issue, yes the best way is to remove the seat, and took on the window because I was waiting for some dash parts. I had taken the dash and hardware to the painter and got it back the other day. I'm just waiting on some gauges I sent for repair and the aluminum instrument dash trim to reconstruct it. I'm replacing all trim and the dash pad also. It will look like a brand new dash when finished:coolg. I have all new upholstery too.

The teenager that owned her way back replaced the engine with a 302 and just did a terrible job with it...transmission is incorrect and linkage is backwards just a endless degree of mousing, teenagers :cry. I've acquired another 312 and Ford "O" Matic and will be reinstalling it next. You have to love these Birds to put yourself through this :banghead, and I do...



Getting there little by little.

Steve

A labor of endless love I must say...forge on!

 

[Navydad181]

A labor of endless love I must say...forge on!

This is the 312 that's waiting to go in...

 

[gbhrps]

navydad181,

I know of what you speak! I was lucky enough to get in on the ground floor of my 55 during its restoration some 18 or so years ago. I'd just retired from teaching and began working in an antique auto restoration shop that specialized in small birds and Auburns.

It was on a rotisserie awaiting paint when I had the opportunity to buy it and help in its reconstruction.

I was lucky enough to get to do a lot of the work on my car during reassembly, which had 18 000 original miles on it when I got the keys. That doesn't happen every day. I consider myself very lucky.

Gene

 

[Navydad181]

navydad181,

I know of what you speak! I was lucky enough to get in on the ground floor of my 55 during its restoration some 18 or so years ago. I'd just retired from teaching and began working in an antique auto restoration shop that specialized in small birds and Auburns.

It was on a rotisserie awaiting paint when I had the opportunity to buy it and help in its reconstruction.

I was lucky enough to get to do a lot of the work on my car during reassembly, which had 18 000 original miles on it when I got the keys. That doesn't happen every day. I consider myself very lucky.

Gene

Is this a 57' Thunderbird engine? Someone is saying that the horizontal casting line on the front of the heads means it's a 1960 or later? When I google a 57'T Bird engine some have this casting line and some don't? What's the real story?

Steve