old yellow 78
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I pulled Old Yellow out of the garage today. It has sat untouched for most of the past year and the begining of this year. Amazingly, it started up after only three tries and seems to run fine. 2020 was an awful year. I lost three family members and I had no time and no interest for doing anything with OY since last spring.
But today, I just spontaniously decided to check it out again. The old spark for it seemed to get revived. I looked around for the things that I had just abandoned when the SHTF last year. I started to do a little work on the dash, and ran into a small problem. So, I remembered the forum and decided to ask for some help.
Does anyone know how to get the glove box lock out of the glove box door? I want to switch OY's keyed lock to the woodgrained glovebox door that I got from Silverd1973. Of course it isn't as simple as just removing the two screws holding it tight. Why would it be?
I think that it might have something to do with this tiny pinhole on the lock faceplate, but I don't really know. And, if so, what about the keyed lock that is on OY's original door? How do I deal with that? Any ideas?
Also, could anyone give me the exact measurements of where the factory reverse light was located on the dash of the F's. I know that it wasn't available for the '78's, but I want to put one on OY's dash anyway. I still have the one from my '76 Volare. I guess it just gets spliced in to the reverse light switch wire, I don't remember, but if not would someone let me know? I'm pretty sure that it is mounted in the lower dash right near the center of this pic, below and to the left of the lower corner of the map light hole. But, I'm OCD enough to want to have it as close to the factory location as possible. If anyone has a pic of one, I would appreciate it.
I hope that those members that I used to talk with on the forum survived 2020 intact are all doing well, and I look forward to meeting any new members that might have come along since last year.
But today, I just spontaniously decided to check it out again. The old spark for it seemed to get revived. I looked around for the things that I had just abandoned when the SHTF last year. I started to do a little work on the dash, and ran into a small problem. So, I remembered the forum and decided to ask for some help.
Does anyone know how to get the glove box lock out of the glove box door? I want to switch OY's keyed lock to the woodgrained glovebox door that I got from Silverd1973. Of course it isn't as simple as just removing the two screws holding it tight. Why would it be?
I think that it might have something to do with this tiny pinhole on the lock faceplate, but I don't really know. And, if so, what about the keyed lock that is on OY's original door? How do I deal with that? Any ideas?
Also, could anyone give me the exact measurements of where the factory reverse light was located on the dash of the F's. I know that it wasn't available for the '78's, but I want to put one on OY's dash anyway. I still have the one from my '76 Volare. I guess it just gets spliced in to the reverse light switch wire, I don't remember, but if not would someone let me know? I'm pretty sure that it is mounted in the lower dash right near the center of this pic, below and to the left of the lower corner of the map light hole. But, I'm OCD enough to want to have it as close to the factory location as possible. If anyone has a pic of one, I would appreciate it.
I hope that those members that I used to talk with on the forum survived 2020 intact are all doing well, and I look forward to meeting any new members that might have come along since last year.