New Guy - Recently Purchased 70 Mach 1 with some questions

[tazzilla]

Just wanted to say Welcome. The mustang is not justa love for cars but an habit. Very nice looking car I really like the Mach 1. You will find some very great people here on VMF and tons of knowledge. Taz

[spliffy007]

Originally Posted by n1kki6

If I pull the vacuum line that runs to the booster on the engine side the car starts to idle rough and die if left for a few seconds. If I put my finger on it the car idle fine, if not better than when the booster is hooked up. It seems the vacuum is fine.

That's a good sign. You should still invest in a vacuum guage. Trust me you'll be needing it down the road. Assuming your calipers are good and the booster is good the next thing sould be to check your master cylnder. You may just want to trying to "Bench Bleed" it before swapping it out.

As far as your steering box. Try adding some lube to it. A 40 year box has probably never been serviced. If the lube doesn't help, you can adjust it, but be careful, it's easy to over-tighten. Next option is to replace it.

Your steering problem may also be a worn Pitman Arm. They are easy to replace and not too expensive. Since the car is a "keeper", I would just go ahead and get a new one if/when you replace the steering box.

[n1kki6]

Originally Posted by spliffy007

That's a good sign. You should still invest in a vacuum guage. Trust me you'll be needing it down the road. Assuming your calipers are good and the booster is good the next thing sould be to check your master cylnder. You may just want to trying to "Bench Bleed" it before swapping it out.

As far as your steering box. Try adding some lube to it. A 40 year box has probably never been serviced. If the lube doesn't help, you can adjust it, but be careful, it's easy to over-tighten. Next option is to replace it.

Your steering problem may also be a worn Pitman Arm. They are easy to replace and not too expensive. Since the car is a "keeper", I would just go ahead and get a new one if/when you replace the steering box.

I actually replaced the master and did a bench bleed with no luck. I ended up just ordering a booster/master combo, hopefully it will be here by the weekend so I can drop it in.

[n1kki6]

And after all that the calipers were on the wrong side. ugh.... have to laugh.

[joorloop]

welcome!