Can someone tell me if these are and where these drain lines?? are coming from or are they not drains at all.
Pis isn't great but this shot is just below the r & L windshield (top R&L cowl))

 

There should be a hole in the frame of the windshield to allow the water that tends to collect in the corner to drain out. I've seen them on one or two of the '48s I've had but it seems they stopped installing them in the later models. Most likely they cost more to put in and didn't help much anyways. They became clogged and didn't drain.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/4...ain-tubes.html

 

My experience is same as Bob's - both my 48 have them but later trucks don't. You should find a corresponding hole under the windshield rubber gasket. Try pushing a thin piece of wire thru the tube from the bottom. Unless plugged and/or painted over it should come out.

 

Thanks..found the other end filled with bondo..

 

There was a thread about those a long time ago. I think it was finally determined that not all trucks got the drain holes. If my memory is right I think we were able to narrow it down to only a handful of the assembly lines were the ones that installed the drain tubes. I can't remember for sure, like I said, its been a long lone time.


Bobby

 

My 49 didn't have them. I was the first person to do any work in that area and there is no indication that there was. I haven't seen that in other trucks up here either. Like Bobby says it's likely not all trucks got them. On a side note, those areas around the windshield bottom corners on my truck were in nearly pristine condition, no rust.

 

My truck has them and it leaks around the windshield too

Ed
near Philadelphia

 

That is obviously a design problem. I have seen several cabs with rust pinholes in that area on both sides. Heavy pitting makes them hard to see unless you focus a bright light under the dash.

 

So is there a conclusion on what to do with these tubes, I cleared out on side good, the other is jambed up and it has leak in tube when I blast air. Seems like a major pita to attempt repair, welder shut???

 

I guess that it depends upon how concerned you are about being totally original. That would be a good feature for judges to check on a car show like a Concours d'Elegance. For the rest of us I think that it is only a way to rust out the windshield frame which ironically those tubes were supposed to prevent.

 

Im in the basically stock resto, since Im already 12v, Im voting for function and fix it once. Esp since they seemed to go by the wayside in the next few years. This one year only, seems to be corrected opps on their part. Welding up!