I hate plastic parts. My quadrant failed today!

[vrinner]

I changed the one on my '84 with...believe it or not...another stock plastic quadrant! Pretty much the same experience as everyone else here except I didn't take my seat out and I think I ended up making a couple of trips to the chiropractor aftwards.

Later I bought the MM aluminum one to put in it but never got the nerve to attempt the swap.

[BanditSVO]

Same happened to me a year ago.

[Felung]

Preventitive Maintenance Idea

Has anyone put together a list of preventitive maintenance tasks? Items that might be considered (and that I have done are)

Problem: Symptom
- TRW Fan Relay Overheating, Fan doesn't work
- Auxillary shaft/Dist. Gear Miss under boost over 3k rpm
- Sticking brakes Burning brake smell, one brake dragging
- Cleaning grounds Gauges not reading correctly
- Headlight refinishing Fogging of lenses, condensation
- Heater Core Water passenger side, fogging of windshield
- SVO Wheel refinish Pitting, dull wheel finish
- leather reconditioning Resoftening, crack repair, redye (seats, shifter, steering wheel)
- Timing Belt
- Performance Exhaust What to expect with (turbo housing bolts, wastegate, etc.)
- Quadrant
- AC
- Power Steering
-

I'm sure others may have more......and like the Quadrant, I'd like to know what is looming large so I can get to it now instead of being stuck somewhere.

[SVOeric]

We have this section called FAQ. it's all in there.
And all that stuff even comes up in a search!

[Felung]

Thanks

I will check out the FAQ now, see what projects I next need to be doing

[SVOeric]

the problem with a 'maintenance' thread is it would be 10 pages long ...

[luvtolean]

Engineered obsolescence? Hell the thing made it over 20 years, that's not half bad.

I broke my operational plastic clutch quadrant out with a prybar, gloves and swearing last year.

I put in an aluminum MM one before it broke.

Didn't listen to the threads about dogbones and had mine fail last week without a spare on board though.

[tateg]

I just replaced my dogbone yesterday for the heck of it. The original one went into my console next to my spare TFI...

Unfortunately the MM clutch cable won't fit or I would have replaced it too. Bummer.

[BanditSVO]

I just replaced my dogbone yesterday for the heck of it. The original one went into my console next to my spare TFI...

Unfortunately the MM clutch cable won't fit or I would have replaced it too. Bummer.

Sorry for the newbie question but what is MM? I need to buy a clutch cable because mine is worn out.

[NavySVO]

Sorry for the newbie question but what is MM? I need to buy a clutch cable because mine is worn out.

I was looking here to get info (SEARCH MODE) and saw this post.

MM is Maximum Motorsports

[Chuck]

This "little" job took me almost 90 minutes. Do I suk or what?

I did the quadrant replacement thing back in 1990 and I followed the shop manual. It took 4 1/2 hours to get the steering support shaft out of the car (remove steering, remove dash, etc), 5 minutes to snap the new quadrant back in, and 4 1/2 hours to get it back together. It might have been 4 1/2 hours total but I do remember that half-way through the job I called the Ford dealer and got an estimate of the job and the service guy said "Whew, parts: $11.23, labor: 4 1/2 hours, yikes!". So I knew that at least I was on the right track doing it the Ford way.

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread.

[BINKY]

I bought the factory Q with the intention of keeping it original. Well, when I crawled under there and started butchering out the original plastic Q, and realizing how much work it would be to install a new one (lazy), I got a refund and bought an aluminum Q with a firewall adjustor, I LOVE IT.

[Erics SVO]

I need to do that to my 93, I can't get anymore adjustment...

[vrinner]

My original owner 84 still has the original clutch cable quadrant in it.

Mike...you have just jinks yourself!