# My 1968 Mustang Fastback (now Satin Black).

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**Created:** [January 20, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-1968-mustang-fastback-now-satin-black/23335 "2007-01-20T11:21:36Z")
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### Author: ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-1968-mustang-fastback-now-satin-black/23335/34 "2007-02-26T19:10:23Z")

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In the meantime I decided to rebuild the heater and defroster. I wasn’t gettin anything out of it and the cable controls were binding.

 ![http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489814/fullsize/parts.jpg](http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489814/fullsize/parts.jpg)

 ![http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489811/fullsize/disassembled-heater-box.jpg](http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489811/fullsize/disassembled-heater-box.jpg)

Maybe this is why. Left is old, notice what I can only describe as “plaque.” Ugh…  
 ![http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489813/fullsize/old-and-new-heater-core.jpg](http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489813/fullsize/old-and-new-heater-core.jpg)

Here’s what I was talking about before - the defroster plenum. When this car was made, it obviously hadn’t been designed to last 40+ years.

But still, who does this :lol: I give you, structural cardboard:

 ![http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489809/fullsize/cardboard-defroster!.jpg](http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489809/fullsize/cardboard-defroster!.jpg)  
About the consistency of that potting cardboard you find at Lowes.

All the stuff for the rebuild. Used new seals, core, motor, defroster and tubes. The heater box was cleaned, disinfected, and duralubed up.  
 ![http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489815/fullsize/rebuild-kit.jpg](http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489815/fullsize/rebuild-kit.jpg)

 ![http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489817/fullsize/rebuild-kit-2.jpg](http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489817/fullsize/rebuild-kit-2.jpg)

End result.  
 ![http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489819/fullsize/repaired-heater-system-front.jpg](http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489819/fullsize/repaired-heater-system-front.jpg)

![http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489820/fullsize/repaired-heater-system-rear.jpg](http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/489820/fullsize/repaired-heater-system-rear.jpg)

More too come…

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