Pulled the engine this Saturday.
Ready for the builder Monday
Cleaned the FMX
Pan almost ready for some paint
Spent some time cleaning the engine bay, gotta long way to go.
Ready for the builder Monday
Cleaned the FMX
Pan almost ready for some paint
Spent some time cleaning the engine bay, gotta long way to go.
Excellent opportunity to switch to a 5-speed manual 
Are you planning to do the engine bay yourself? You can save good money with some hard work and a lot of patience…
My old engine bay…
My new engine bay
You may want a professional finish though…this is just a rattle can job.
Yes, I am working on my engine bay as we speak. Yours looks nice and tidy. I am striving for that level. Just something that will make me happy.
On a 70 you can remove the cowl and clean that out while you are there. Speaking of pine needles.
Best of luck to you…keep posting your progress for us.
I finally have the engine bay, where I am happy with it.
You may not be able to tell, but it is a lot cleaner now. My work space is the dirt portion of my backyard.
This is my AC vacuum canister. When I removed it all the vinyl/rubber coating was peeling and a hole had rusted through the top edge.
I wire wheeled all the crud off it, epoxied the hole , and gave it a nice coat of semi-gloss black
Today my brother helped me get the Cougar running. Yay! 
Took all day, and have a few issues to correct, but I think we are progressing.
Awesome. Always a good feeling the first time you fire it up again.
Cleaned out the cowling today. I knew there was a bunch of pine needles, maybe a bit more than I thought.
That looks great - mine was similar-had a ton of pine needles but luckily no major rust !! Keep the pics coming
Replaced the front brake lines today. This is a picture of the drivers side, both ends. Passenger side was not as bad and had been replaced sometime in its life. Does this one look original? Not that it matters.
Also replaced the fuel sensor float. Yay! Now I know if I have any gas. You can see the pin hole, on the right side of the picture.
Thought I would work on my headlight door actuator. When I shut off the car, I can hear the air hissing out of the accordion boot. So I took it apart.
Here you can see the hole in the boot.
This is the grommet that seals around the rod. You can see the split across the edge.
Here is a portion the the debris that came out. Maybe 30%
Old grommet, and new grommet.
New boot.
New grommet in place.
All back together. I came across this fix while reading all the Cougar forums, and searching the net for cost effective solution, for the leaking actuator.
I have not tried it yet. but it was worth the $20 that it cost.
Here is the link, to this idea.
Almost forgot, the new boot needs to be trimmed to fit the opening. I used scissors.
Pulled the passenger fender today and cleaned out some more pine needles.
Maybe a quart sized bag of needles came out.
Here is where they came out.
Yes that is likely the original. Single crimp is an indication of when it was made.