I am working on an old Mustang that my dad picked up a while ago, knowing really nothing about it other than the price. He brought it home and let it sit for many years and now that I have moved back to the area he expects me to get it running and working again. I am a Ford tech, so I know my way around a car and a tool box. The problem is that I am running into mystery after mystery and I can't seem to find good sources for the information I need. Thusly I have some questions about the very early cars.
1) Is there any definitive way to differentiate between a 64.5 and a true 65? This seems to be one of the larger sticking points on the car. I know there are minor differences between the two, mostly in the electrical systems, but what I am seeing and finding, which is fragmented at best, suggests this car is a 64.5 or a very very early 65.
2) I need to know about things that were options, rather than standard equipment. For example, I have found that pre-66 reverse lights were optional. I am mostly interested in brake lights. Were they standard equipment, or were they an option? I really can't see brake lights being an option, but I don't have any brake lights working, don't have a brake light switch, and can't find an empty plug where one was removed.
3) Headlight switch. I have the pin-out figured out. I know what each pin is supposed to do. I have an 8-pin plug with the extension on the switch, and the two angled pins. When I look up switches there are three between the 64 and 65. Only one has any angled pins. I have gotten two of these now, BWD part S144. It is a 7-pin switch, but the missing pin is the one that jumps power to the brake light switch. Both will turn on my headlights, neither will activate the marker lights. It is not making the connection between the B1 and P or R pins in any postion. Is this the wrong switch? Is power for the marker supposed to be taken from the brake light pin, rather than the same pin as the headlights?
I bench tested the original switch several years ago, then got caught up in other things for a year, moved the car and all the parts that were taken off when I moved, and now I can't find the original switch.
Any help that can be offered would be greatly appreciated. I am basically trying to re-wire most of this car without know what it really is, and working from diagrams that I consider barbaric at best.
Any more info that is needed to help will be given gladly. I have run the warranty number through the decoder at CJ Pony's site, but it didn't tell me much that I didn't already know.
Tag info:
65A J 86 07E 23 3 6
Warranty # 5f07u128493
No, I do not know for 100% sure that this is the original door. I don't know that it isn't either.
1) Is there any definitive way to differentiate between a 64.5 and a true 65? This seems to be one of the larger sticking points on the car. I know there are minor differences between the two, mostly in the electrical systems, but what I am seeing and finding, which is fragmented at best, suggests this car is a 64.5 or a very very early 65.
2) I need to know about things that were options, rather than standard equipment. For example, I have found that pre-66 reverse lights were optional. I am mostly interested in brake lights. Were they standard equipment, or were they an option? I really can't see brake lights being an option, but I don't have any brake lights working, don't have a brake light switch, and can't find an empty plug where one was removed.
3) Headlight switch. I have the pin-out figured out. I know what each pin is supposed to do. I have an 8-pin plug with the extension on the switch, and the two angled pins. When I look up switches there are three between the 64 and 65. Only one has any angled pins. I have gotten two of these now, BWD part S144. It is a 7-pin switch, but the missing pin is the one that jumps power to the brake light switch. Both will turn on my headlights, neither will activate the marker lights. It is not making the connection between the B1 and P or R pins in any postion. Is this the wrong switch? Is power for the marker supposed to be taken from the brake light pin, rather than the same pin as the headlights?
I bench tested the original switch several years ago, then got caught up in other things for a year, moved the car and all the parts that were taken off when I moved, and now I can't find the original switch.
Any help that can be offered would be greatly appreciated. I am basically trying to re-wire most of this car without know what it really is, and working from diagrams that I consider barbaric at best.
Any more info that is needed to help will be given gladly. I have run the warranty number through the decoder at CJ Pony's site, but it didn't tell me much that I didn't already know.
Tag info:
65A J 86 07E 23 3 6
Warranty # 5f07u128493
No, I do not know for 100% sure that this is the original door. I don't know that it isn't either.