ROYCE, Where are you Obi Wan Kenobi?

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Hi all.

Royce you seem to be one if the many experts that cruise these forums, and I have a question for anyone who knows for CERTAIN about my inquiry.

I have looked on the net and on here for actual survivor 70 Cougars. I own a 351 Cleveland Eliminator and would like to ensure the proper routing and/or binding of the vacuum hoses through the engine bay visa via I have seen these hoses combined with the wiring loom on the drivers side of the shocktower etc, but I have also seen the vacuum hoses bound separately and held in place below the shock tower electrical loom maybe 4"- 6" below it.

Which is correct? I do know Mustangs produced at San Jose, Metuchen etc have very difinitive variances in assembly and even paint application etc, hiwever I’m not sure if this was the case with the Cougars? Would you, or anyone have detailed pictures where the looms were properly attached in the engine bay? And if so, sperate or bound together?

Thank you all in advance.

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I don’t have a fraction of the Cougar knowledge Royce does, but I do have an original 70 Cougar 351C, and Cougars were only produced in Dearborn that year. You are correct that the vacuum hoses are routed separately below the wiring loom. The vacuum hoses and wire harness were taped to a white clip that fastened to a hole in the shock tower/apron.

In the pics below, the wire harness is untouched original. The vacuum hoses have been removed, cleaned, retaped to the original clips, and re-installed to the original location. There is some additional discussion on this here:

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Fantastic and thank you! This certainly makes a difference as I will be replacing the engi e bay harness and I want to clean it gently, re-wrap it and put it in place, THEN do the vacuum hoses! Absolutey great pics. Did you ever find any paint stampings,grease marks etc on any sub structures on the car that you noticed?

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Sounds like a good plan! I cleaned and preserved the hoses with silicone grease. Tried solvent at first, but it removed the striping.

My car is a garage queen and hasn’t been apart for restoration (other than an engine refresh). And it was undercoated way back in the day. So I haven’t found too many original chalk or paint marks.

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Is it possible to do a whole engine bay shot, as well as a passengers apron, firewall etc?

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Here is an overview I have handy tonight. Will get a few with clearer views tomorrow.

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I appreciate the support but I am only familiar with 1967 and 1968 Cougars. A 1970 351 Eliminator is a little bit outside my comfort zone.

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This is a huge help.
Thanks!

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I still owe you some pics. I got called out of town, but will be back on Sunday.

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A few more engine bay pics of my 70 351C built Dec 69. Let me know if you need anything else.

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Here are some photos from a 70 B2 built in September 1969 during teardown.

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Wonderful and great pics. I see a few things ill correct. It is so cool to has a survivor to go off of. Can’t thank you enough for posting these! :grinning_face:

Larry

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Somewhere along the way, the shock tower caps got painted. I need to restore those to phosphate and oil. And I need to install a factory correct black 16 awg fuse link (correct for the 42A alternator) to the solenoid battery terminal. And the brake booster and master cylinder…