Carburetor

**Carburetor is restored.  I took great pains to replicate the original plating that was on this.  The boosters still have the original red and orange paint daubs (made sure they were preserved through the cleaning process).  I also kept the original plating on several of the parts where it still looked good.  This thing was in really good shape except for the top which needed some TLC to get it looking like it should again. 

The original owner, Bill, told me that this car had an automatic choke when he bought it in July 1964 and when he sold it in 1969, not the C4OF AL that one would expect.  After much of my own research, and the help of a few others including Bob Mannel, this is what was on the car when Bill bought it new.

Lotsa Restored Parts

It's been a while since I posted.  Ran into many parts that needed to be restored before I could proceed with other larger parts installations.  Above is a table in my workshop with a sampling of original parts from the car that have been restored.  Took a ton of time, but now things are starting to move forward again with the install of the restored pedal assembly, accelerator linkage, steering gear/column, underdash wiring, radio, and dash mounted controls.

This is an issue that needs to be fixed before installing the nylon grommet assembling the pedal assembly, otherwise it will break again. .  This was worn out by the clutch helper spring .

Steering shaft and box installed.

Now here with the column, turn signal wiring installed.  Good look at the original firewall pad (restored) too.

Original radio, restored.  Something cool about this being back in the car just like it was that day that Bill first drove the car and fell in love with it.  Note date installed date of Jun 19, 1964.  Interesting given that we have a body panel with the same date on it.

The air vent know is interesting.  64 1/2 cars have the "A" of course, whereas later production cars did not.  What I did not know what that the "A" is stamped into a small piece that snaps into the knob.

Finally getting close to installing the engine...

Parking Brake Cables

Got parking brake cables detailed and installed.  As with all things on this car, these took way longer than I expected.  There are significant differences between the NOS cables and the originals of this time period of production, and so I went back to the originals to make sure that every detail was addressed.  Blue paint daubs on the tips were matched with original colors - indicates that these cables are for a V8 car. 

Note grooved/ridges on this section of hose, and true of all hose sections.  NOS and reproductions don't have this along with some other differences.  Brackets on this car were all painted black, and I was able to confirm the "L.H." on at least one other original car.  Here's a  picture of an original car.

 Another interesting often missed detail are these little wire clips used to hold the brake cable in place during assembly.  I have also seen a small plastic clip used instead of this but for the same purpose.

  The following pic is before restoration, showing the original wire clip still in place before disassembly.  (Note how the whole underside of the car was detailed with black paint as part of the "show car prepared process" used at Ford for this and a few other K cars of this period that were sent to dealers prior to July 4th , 1964.  I confirmed with Ford that in-fact there were "significant challenges" in keeping up with production during this period.  So when the K's were too far behind to get them into showrooms before the all important July 4th weekend, they cobbled together a few and sent them to their highest volume DSOs in an attempt to entice orders. I mentioned all of this before, but touching on it again here since getting the info back from Ford archives.)

And this is after restoration.  Note the little bit of orange paint daub under the bracket.  I found this paint daub on both sides of the car, so I recreated it before installing the bracket.  Not sure the purpose of it, since both HiPO cars and non-Hipo V8 cars had these brackets located in the same place.  I mention this in an earlier post.