Topic: 65 spare tire - pin or hook?

[fast66]

Hi, we had a discussion about when the change from slot/pin to loop/hook for fastening the spare tire, happened?
I read something about a TSB from feb1 -65 but someone else said "early" -65...

Anyone in the group that can clarify when this change happened?

Thanks,
Claes

[CharlesTurner]

I've seen the slide plate on early February '65 San Jose cars, so the TSB is generally correct.

[J_Speegle]

If your looking for an exact date we will not have that since we don't have real build dates for any of these early cars and if possibly varied a little depending on car assembly plant. We see that your likely looking for NJ built data


Yes there is a running changes thread on the subject by plant unfortunately given the area most of the NJ cars were sold to and the resulting rust in many of the examples we don't have as much examples that have not been repaired or restored. For example we've got San Jose (so far) down to late Jan 65 so basically early Feb is in the possible range also.

https://www.concoursmustang.com/forum/index.php?topic=19402.new#new

[jwc66k]

The 1965 Mustang Body Assembly Manual (AM0006) pg 86 (the page number is blurred on my copy - ref N5-8930) shows the addition of the spare wheel plate, C5ZB-1424-A, and "hook" bolt, C5AB-1448-B, both with an effective date of 10-9-64.
This does not really establish an absolute date, but a Ford engineering change to an assembly line procedure. We know that Ford used up existing items in many cases.
Jim

[carlite65]

my october 23 dearborn 2+2 has the slide plate.

[ChrisV289]

My October 29, 64 SJ fastback is the early slide style

[AB_Russ]

A previous car of mine, a DB build mid-Dec 64 fastback had the early-style slide plate/carriage bolt spare tire hold down. 5F09C376xxx .

[J_Speegle]

Guys it looks like (according to the OPs signature) he is looking for NJ built cars/examples.