The changing of the solenoid on the Tiger is such an onerous job I have left
one in even when I changed just about everything else. You really do need
two people and be willing to pull back the carpet and the metal
whatchamacallit under the carpet on the passenger side.
Curt Hoffman
>I replaced the solenoid last summer on my 65 Tiger. When I went to take
> mine off, the nut on one of the big studs for the battery cable was frozen
> and the stud started spinning rather than nut. With the wires in place, I
> couldn't get at the nuts holding the solenoid in place (doesn't help that
> you have to be in the passenger compartment, and the engine compartment at
> the same time)
>
> Rather than doing the easy thing which would have been cutting the bolts
> off
> from the passenger side, I tried cutting the stud off that had the
> problem.
> I either had a problem where I couldn't get the right angle or I was going
> to cut into the cable, so I eventually settled for cutting the bracket on
> the solenoid with my dremel. Couldn't really see what I was doing, but I
> eventually got one side cut, and then with the wires I could remove out of
> the way, I was able to get the other bolt out of it to remove it. With it
> off the firewall, I had the room to carefully amputate the broken stud and
> get that battery cable loose. Of course I managed to cut myself a couple
> times on the remaining piece of the bracket that was on the firewall while
> I
> removed that remaining bolt.
>
> Those solenoids are carried by all the local part stores, I think I either
> said old ford solenoid, And there are a couple of guys at the parts store
> would have been able to just walk back and pull it off the shelf, but of
> course the kid at the parts counter was new and needed a car model to look
> it up, so I told him 65 Mustang, since I knew they were the same, it is
> usually easier than explaining what a Tiger is. But I did feel bad that
> the
> one I took off was an actual ford part c7XX-XXXX (technically wrong for a
> 65, but close) and the one I put on was an aftermarket without the ford
> part
> number on it.
>
> It is amazing, to replace the solenoid on my mustang of that era, would
> have
> been about 15 minutes as it is mounted nice and high on the inside fender
> well, but on the tiger, with all the problems I had, it took most of an
> afternoon. I guess nothing is easy on the tiger :-)
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