Now it's junk from Carpenter!

[Dec211975]

There was a recall on the Pinto gas tank fiasco, there was a shield if I remember correctly made from a rubber or plastic material to buffer the zone. I am not sure the recall fixed the problem but I remember installing the part in the recall in the early days as a ford tech.

[Jeff/Illinois]

Originally Posted by Dec211975

There was a recall on the Pinto gas tank fiasco, there was a shield if I remember correctly made from a rubber or plastic material to buffer the zone. I am not sure the recall fixed the problem but I remember installing the part in the recall in the early days as a ford tech.

I was working in a Ford garage at that time too, as a Parts Mgr., and it seems that that 'fix' alleviated the problem, but I still wouldn't have trusted them!
Mustang II was based on the Pinto platform. They were almost the same car of course the rack and pinion steering on Mustang II was light years ahead of everybody. They never had that rear end gas tank rupture problem.

It got so bad by 1975, that if the owner wanted LTD's or Mercury Marquis' to sell, and they were flying off the lots, for every 4 of them Ford MADE our dealership take a Pinto... you couldn't sell those things by that time