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From 1969 Mercury Marquis “Topaz”, documented by Smoky.

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1969 Mercury Marquis - Monroe Front Load adjusting shocks 1969 Mercury Marquis - Monroe Rear load adjusting shocks. (Gas charged) 1969 Mercury Marquis - Moog Front heavy duty springs 1969 Mercury Marquis - Moog Rear heavy duty springs. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Diagram of the Pressure Differential Valve/Proportioning valve assembly from the service manual for the full size Mercury. I had to replace… 1969 Mercury Marquis - Picture of the valve assembly from my car oriented like the service manual diagram. It appears that originally, the bracket was permanently… 1969 Mercury Marquis - This switch appears on top of the Coolant output hose attachment elbow. Its function is to increase vacuum to the distributor, advancing it… 1969 Mercury Marquis - the part when new. 1969 Mercury Marquis - pressure differential valve and proportioning valve rebuilt by White Post Restorations. 1969 Mercury Marquis - diagram of the functioning of the pressure differential valve 1969 Mercury Marquis - Believe it or not! I have not been able to discover the length of time mine will stay shut, but definitely a couple of months! 1969 Mercury Marquis - Typical setup found on Amazon 1969 Mercury Marquis - This VLR stuff is great for my vinyl top. It cleans and conditions. I also use it on my vinyl interior. Stuff does not have a bad odor, nor… 1969 Mercury Marquis - Drivers side front showing new springs, shocks and sway bar link. 1969 Mercury Marquis - The undercarriage looks very good with virtually no rust anywhere. It has the optional (for '69) front disk brakes. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Passengers side front showing new springs, shocks and sway bar link. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Drivers side rear showing new springs and shocks. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Passenger side rear showing new springs and shocks. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Original suspension (FL) 1969 Mercury Marquis - Original suspension, passenger side (FL) 1969 Mercury Marquis - New Moog Ball Joint on Driver's side. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Another view; new ball joint on driver's side 1969 Mercury Marquis - New Moog ball joint (lower) on passenger side. Bolt in type, NOT pressed in. 1969 Mercury Marquis - New ball joint (lower) on passenger side. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Other side, upper and lower. Suspension was rebuilt before the computer alignment could be done. 1969 Mercury Marquis - New ball joints, upper and lower installed. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Looking toward passenger front tire, showing some of the new idler arm. 1969 Mercury Marquis - A better view of the passenger front tire with new idler arm, also showing some of the insulation around the starter (hoping to prevent or… 1969 Mercury Marquis - New inner and outer tie rod ends, plus the sleeves 1969 Mercury Marquis - Driver's side view, showing new HD Moog spring. The whole chassis was painted with red oxide then black. You can see the red oxide is showi… 1969 Mercury Marquis - New Bosch oil filter in blue. 1969 Mercury Marquis - another view. 1969 Mercury Marquis - PCV system on the 429 (and 460) 1969 Mercury Marquis - PCV valve outlet in valve cover, Passenger side in back. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Original PCV valve, removed. Motorcraft part numbers shown. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Ported vacuum switch circled in photo, showing the way it was when I purchased the car --broken and unconnected. 1969 Mercury Marquis - A very original Marquis, still showing the rubber flap from the radiator to the front brace. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Revised rubber extender with SS mesh underneath for support 1969 Mercury Marquis - Neat dark Blue oil filter from Bosch. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Wrong idler arm from Ebay. I sent it back for a refund, as it didn't match the picture on the EBay page. After a couple more order attempts… 1969 Mercury Marquis - Striker on the driver's door 1969 Mercury Marquis - Door latch on the driver's door 1969 Mercury Marquis - Official paint chip sheet of 1969 Mercury Marquis colors. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Bad scratch, probably from when the hubcaps flew off the car, before I got it. (previous owner told me this kept happening to him.) 1969 Mercury Marquis - a better shot of the lower scratch. 1969 Mercury Marquis - hubcap example on body color painted steel rim. 1969 Mercury Marquis - New oil sending unit installed on 2/23/22 because the old one was leaking oil. 1969 Mercury Marquis - New starter relay installed on 2/23/22 because old one was sticking. (Starter kept running) 1969 Mercury Marquis - This shot shows the low beam removed and where the spring holds down the bulb. The headlight itself is attached to a bucket, which then sli… 1969 Mercury Marquis - This shot shows the headlight mounted inside the bucket, and slots (two: at 12 & 3 O'clock) which slide into the adjustment screw posts. 1969 Mercury Marquis - This shot shows the chrome retaining bezel hole in which the spring connects. This is the first thing removed, and the last thing reconnect… 1969 Mercury Marquis - Close up of wiper 1969 Mercury Marquis - The original windshield washer jug.. More unobtanium. 1969 Mercury Marquis - This is a close up photo of the grain of the vinyl convertible top, which is factory original. I used a magnifying glass directly in front… 1969 Mercury Marquis - This shot shows how the texture looks to the naked eye within a foot or so. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Covered up during winter 1969 Mercury Marquis - Front ornament on the car cover! 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1969 Ford Galaxy Convertible frame. It is 3 inches shorter than the Marquis frame. 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1969 Ford Galaxy convertible frame 1969 Mercury Marquis - same frame all restored 1969 Mercury Marquis - Steve McGarrett's Parklane in Hawaii 5-O 1969 Mercury Marquis - The original owners manual that came with the new car. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Inside first page of owners manual showing the name etc. of the first owner, and other key info. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Procedure to start the car as described in the owners manual 1969 Mercury Marquis - starting the engine continued in the owners manual. 1969 Mercury Marquis - This is the headlight door vacuum shutoff switch, which is used when you want the headlight doors to stay open while you change or aim the… 1969 Mercury Marquis - looking from undeneath the car, showing the bottom of the headlight door servo 1969 Mercury Marquis - another view showing the servo looking up toward the hood latch. You can see the bar that connects the two headlight doors which the servo… 1969 Mercury Marquis - This view shows the servo for the headlight doors right behind the license plate. 1969 Mercury Marquis - looking down through the slots in the top radiator brace showing the top of the servo for the headlight doors. 1969 Mercury Marquis - linkage between column and arm over to tranny. 1969 Mercury Marquis - another view of the linkage between the column arm and the tranny linkage showing the kick down rod as well 1969 Mercury Marquis - same linkage on my car shown in the Chris pic.. 1969 Mercury Marquis - This is the original windshield washer pump removed from the bottom of the reservoir. I replaced it with a brand new one. 1969 Mercury Marquis - This is a picture of the windshield wiper switch I need. I found one through a Mercury Group on FB exactly like this and installed it. My W… 1969 Mercury Marquis - Filled my tank with racing gas (110 Octane, leaded, non-ethanol) on 6/28/22 1969 Mercury Marquis - The "good" set of keys, for car shows etc. 1969 Mercury Marquis - My every day keys.. 1969 Mercury Marquis - My original cam and crank sprockets which were replaced in 2022. They were both in perfect condition. I could find no cracks or chips on th… 1969 Mercury Marquis - This shows the difference between what the new gas cap looks like (Stant #10640) and what was already on my car. The new gas cap is not ven… 1969 Mercury Marquis - After Craig got the top pad off, he was unplugging the speaker wire in this pic. Eric is holding up the pad on the far side. Pad is resting… 1969 Mercury Marquis - July 26th, 2023 got the Top Dash Pad removed with Erik's help. Got car in garage before storms coming. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Dash mid level pad with gauge fascia removed on 6/27/23. Realized I lost the hex lock nut for the wiper switch. It wasn't present when I go… 1969 Mercury Marquis - Lens plate covering speedometer etc. removed exposing all of the lights. 1969 Mercury Marquis - This was the last step in disassembly: getting the clock out. It was a tight squeeze, had to pull the front white base away from the blue b… 1969 Mercury Marquis - Working clock, new LEDs and Gauge Lens assembly installed 1969 Mercury Marquis - New Dash Lights for the '69. All LEDs on the main level. Underneath is still the old fashioned bulbs. Gotta do those next. Also the new ref…Video 1969 Mercury Marquis - Here's a pic of the original bulb plus two LEDs I'm using. The one (on the left) I originally put in both lights. But after that, I had bli… 1969 Mercury Marquis - The passenger side front marker light assembly. The 4 screws have already been removed. 1969 Mercury Marquis - passenger side front marker light with the top lens removed showing the original bulb and gasket. I applied rubber preservative to the gask… 1969 Mercury Marquis - This is the license plate light's cover. One philips head screw removed, then pull on tab to have it swing down and off to change the light… 1969 Mercury Marquis - This is the original license plate bulb and its new LED replacement which has been installed... 1969 Mercury Marquis - THe old dimmer switch which I removed and replaced with the new one on 12/9/23. Doing that got the "Hi-Beam" indicator light to come on. (i… 1969 Mercury Marquis - Here's the new dimmer switch installed 1969 Mercury Marquis - This is optional cover for the dimmer switch 1969 Mercury Marquis - Showing new dimmer switch cover with pedals all cleaned up 1969 Mercury Marquis - This is the inline connector plug I made for the Brake System Warning Light. You can just see a part of the plug that attaches to the Brake… 1969 Mercury Marquis - A mystery 3 prong female plug under the dash near the fuse block and e-brake release. Don't know what this is for, but would like to know. 1969 Mercury Marquis - This is the old splitter block and proportioning valve. Erik was unable to get the piston centered for the "brake system" light on the dash… 1969 Mercury Marquis - All of the new parts installed. Old MC was leaking, and old splitter block could not be centered for the Dash Light to work correctly. 1969 Mercury Marquis - Part number: C9MY-7A247-A Mercury full size, Lincoln Mark III, neutral safety switch with vacuum e-brake release