After I straightened the line everything worked smoothly again. Then, when I had a careful look at the hydraulic lines, I discovered that one of the lines connected to the bottom of the right-side deck cylinder had become kinked slightly. I tried switching two of the solenoids, with the same result. This resulted in the deck lid closing slightly and getting in the way of the top as it was folding down into the trunk - luckily the top wasn’t damaged. After a few days of trouble-free operation, the deck cylinders suddenly began to release slightly when the pump started at the beginning of the top retract cycle (after the upper back panel erect cycle). After reinstalling them it took many fillings of the hydraulic pump reservoir and bleeding of all the cylinders to finally get them working smoothly.
Hydraulic Cylinder Creep – I had taken all the hydraulic cylinders out of the car and had freed them up by hand, getting as much of the old, dirty hydraulic fluid as possible out of them. Amazingly, once I got the hydraulic system working, the whole top operation worked with only very slight adjustments required for one of the deck lock nuts and the deck closed limit switch – not bad after sitting for so long! I think that 12 volts was getting through the circuit but there was a large voltage drop under load due to the poor connections. This was a stumper for a couple of days until I cleaned the connections at the 60 amp circuit breaker, after which everything worked. Fortunately all of the components worked! When I tried bumping them from the relay bus bar power circuit nothing worked, even though I was getting 12 volts at the bus bar. Relay Bus Bar Power – I cleaned up the relay and motor contacts and bump-tested them using a long jumper wire (fused) from the positive battery post, another long jumper wire from the negative battery post, and other jumpers as shown in the manual. I was constantly referring to these figures for relay layout and wiring. 3, 4, and 5) that aren’t included in the Repair Manual.
1964 66 THUNDERBIRD CONVERTIBLE FOR SALE MANUAL
To me the Shop Manual was the most useful as it has 3 drawings (Figs.
1964 66 THUNDERBIRD CONVERTIBLE FOR SALE MANUALS
Manuals – I have the Shop Manual, the Wiring Diagram Manual, and the Convertible Top Repair Manual. I came up against some real head-scratchers (at least for me) that I haven’t seen on this forum, so hopefully these experiences will be useful to some other poor soul scratching his or her head.
I thought I’d share some of my experiences when sorting out the convertible top operation. weren’t working but, with a lot of help from this forum, I’ve managed to get almost everything back in working order. It had been stored for 14 years and the convertible top, power windows, clock, etc. We’ve had our ’64 convertible for about 3 months. I’m a new member and really appreciate the great information I’ve been getting through this forum.
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