There is a mostly stock brown 72 Explorer/Sport on ebay that is U15GLP31667
There is a mostly stock brown 72 Explorer/Sport on ebay that is U15GLP31667. 5/72
http://www.ebay.com/itm/18173894727...xe,ext=ext&srcrot=e11010.m1951.l1120&rvr_id=0
Has Ambient sensor
No dash bar lights
It's T shift
Has Power steering
No fuel return
5/72 manufacture date according to the sticker.
Flat 4-pin neutral safety switch as well.
Have we considered wiring harness as a potential data point yet?
The red connector is the engine harness.
Looks early for PS. I asked to see the warranty tag to see if it was stock.
Not sure if I did this one already or not, but it recently changed hands, so it came up again. U15GLQ54314 11/72
Light bars
Fuel return line
No ambient sensor, but has plug
Automatic Trans
T-shift (Forgot to actually make a note of that, so just going from memory)
Kind of an oddball, with cloth interior including door panels and rear side panels, chrome trim around windows only (no top or doors), carpet with hold downs, dome light and headliner, but no Ranger, Explorer or even Sport badging.
Paul
So, I've got a new category for this list. Sorry to add another layer of stuff, but I've been curious about under hood questions for a long time and am just now getting around to asking.
For those with these P's and Q's that still have relatively unmolested engine compartments, or that remember them before they were molested... What air cleaner and smog control stuff do you have?
For the stock air cleaner group, is it a straight open snorkel pointed at the radiator, or the angled one pointed behind the battery with cold-air intake?
Regarding smog stuff, do/did you have EGR and other things hooked to vacuum tubes? Or just the dual-diaphragm distributor and that's about it?
And last, does the carburetor linkage have the bell-crank stabilizer link attached to the firewall, or not? The '73 just listed above has original paint and no holes for the linkage. Just dimples you can barely see. Seen it before, but not very often that I remember.
Here's a pic of what I mean:
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Thanks. Sorry for the late addition to the questions, but I'd love to hear from owners of stock-ish engine compartments.
Paul