Steering Column 2 piece or 1. Fuel Line route

[Fastback66]

When did the 67  steering columns change from the one piece to 2 piece?
When did the 67 fuel line route change from transmission tunnel to frame rail?

[Royce Peterson]

Great questions. I don't know the answer to the steering column question, but I have some interesting facts to share.

1967 Cougars never used the one piece steering column. All of them had the rag joint from the beginning of the 1967 model year. S/N 500001 has a scheduled date of July 4, 1966 but was actually built in August 1966.

I work on a '67 Mustang regularly and know the original owner and the second owner who has owned it since about 1980. The car was originally equipped with manual performance steering and had the 16:1 manual box with a rag joint. The car's scheduled build date was October 31, 1966. He's never purchased a Marti report so we don't know the actual build date. It was a Dearborn built car.

Regarding the fuel line I parted out a late July 1967 Mustang that had the fuel line running up the tunnel. Was it ever changed?

When did the 67  steering columns change from the one piece to 2 piece?
When did the 67 fuel line route change from transmission tunnel to frame rail?

[JD]

To my understanding the steering column on the '67 GT350's were one-piece and the GT500's got the 2-piece (rag-joint) version...

Not sure of the time frame for the fuel-line routing change.

[Krelboyne]

Pretty sure that the 'long shaft' vs 'short shaft' steering box on 1967 Mustangs had to do with tilt and engine size up until May 1967.

All tilt columns had the short shaft steering boxes and rag joints.

Generally all S code cars had short shaft steering boxes.

Non big block cars without tilt columns had the long shaft steering boxes


Bob Gaines quote from concoursmustang forum.
https://www.concoursmustang.com/forum/index.php?topic=20326.msg128368#msg128368
The 390 typically got the short column with a rag joint coupler regardless of if early or late production . It was the smaller displacement engine cars that got the long version column until the changeover to for all cars to the rag joint shorter style regardless of displacement happened in May of 67.

[J_Speegle]

When did the 67 fuel line route change from transmission tunnel to frame rail?

Guess I've not yet published a likely date to the survey of Ford running changes on CMF but should do that. In general terms I would share Mid May to Mid April 67

That thread https://www.concoursmustang.com/forum/index.php?topic=22685.0

[Lfino]

My 1551 is a frame rail. Nid April

[J_Speegle]

Guess I've not yet published a likely date to the survey of Ford running changes on CMF but should do that. In general terms I would share Mid May to Mid April 67

That thread https://www.concoursmustang.com/forum/index.php?topic=22685.0

Posted the results of that survey over on CMF today as an update on a year old thread. The conclusion based on what I was able to collect and document with allot of help of the SAAC registry and Marti reports to provide us with real completion dates at San Jose are as follows


- Mustangs/Shelby's completed on 3/16/1967 had the earlier/first routing

- Mustangs/Shelby's completed on 3/22/1967 had the later/second routing

Leaving us with an unknown period of five completion days at San Jose during the 67 production period

This tightens up the dates from the original start of that thread by 2-3 weeks

Hope this helps others

[JD]

Jeff - Thanks again for your continued help on this and many other aspects of these cars.