So here's the story, back around 2004 or 2005 I was at the end of my lucrative manual labor career and was getting ready to make a change. I had purchased this 71 ford Thunderbird Hardtop a few years previous and, after a few years of being unable to work on it, it had degraded till the point it wasn't fit to be used in my new career. so it was parked. Now, after a few years, I am able to pull it back outta the tree line and attempt to resurrect it. This blog will follow along with the progress from rust bucket hoopty to a (once again) nice ride.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

OMG What is going on at Crane Cams

So I was working on getting new plug wires, new rotor/cap and a points conversion kit installed on the Bird. The Point to electronic kit that I ordered was made by Crane Cams, the xi-1 kit. I ordered this kit through Advance Auto parts here locally.

Despite it being very plain that the kit includes a bottom adapter plate that has two mounting holes in it. (image of parts in the kit) (pdf of instalation instructions showing diagram with holes in plate and text indicating there should be holes) The first kit that came into the parts house had a bottom plate without the mounting holes drilled.. I didn't notice this of course until I took it home and read the instructions and looked at the pieces.. I took it back to the parts house the next day, told the kid behind the counter the problem and got another kit on the way. A few days later when it came in I checked out the pieces there at the counter and AGAIN the bottom adapter plate was missing the mounting holes... The kid made a few calls to his boss checking part numbers and applications to make sure that this was indeed the correct application.. it was.. They ordered me another kit this time through their website hoping that it might come from a different warehouse and thus perhaps a separate batch of parts.

Evidently somebody at Crane Cams was asleep at the switch.

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