AX is your power vent conversion in any of your albums?

 

Losing mine, hoping to go with A/C eventually but windows down will have to do for now.

 

Does it appear to be backyard engineered or a manufactured kit?

I've been considering a motor drive to run mine........might be time to visit the salvage yard to consider possibilities.

 

If it is it was accidental, I'll try to remember to take a pic for you. There are a number of 12V geared motors out there for the RC model guys that aren't expensive. With the low speed gear box it doesn't need a very big motor to have plenty of torque, just don't stall it for long.

 

Thank you.

 

If I was looking to do it inexpensively I'd get a motor out of a forward-back power seat. Low speed, high torque, reverseable, inexpensive out of the U-pull or off ebay.

 

AX, Bonus Builts do not have a drain hose or drain port of any kind and nothing is rusted at all. The problem imho is the reproduction rubber gasket and the fact that it will not fully compress in the forward edge which is why I asked you my previous question which was:

" After closing and compressing the rubber seal, can you observe any reopening motion like the compressed seal is forcing the lid up a little?"

Note that it did not leak in driving rain as built by Ford.

 

Hadn't thought about those. I'll check them out. Too bad I scrapped an old set of power seats out of a big buick some time back. I've decided that I can't keep "everything" in hopes of having a use for it in the future.

 

Bill sorry I don't feel like I can answer your questions with any helpful insight: 1. I don't have a bonus built, 2. my vent gasket was already install when I got the truck, so I don't know how old it is, but it is soft like sponge rubber (about like soft door weather seal), 3. my power motor linkage is tight, so it doesn't have freedom to show any immediate movement or spring back. 4. when I had the linkage disconnected the front was maybe 1/4" proud of the cowl but I could easily push it down and the motor does not labor closing it tightly against the seal.

I might look at making a gasket from pep boy tubular door weather stripping???

 

Bill, whose gasket do you have? I suspect Dennis C makes all of them. At any rate, mine has been on there for more than 10 years, not a lot of it outdoors admittedly, but it has sealed tight since I put it in. If I spray directly at it with a hose when washing a little will make it past, but I think the spray is actually lifting the lid. To answer your question, when I close it, there is no "bounce back", it just stays there.

I remember when I put the seal on it was hard to get it on over the flange so that it sat down square against the cowl, the flange had to be worked into the groove in the seal carefully. I also think it has a shape molded into it, i.e., it needs to go on in a certain orientation.

 

AX, Thanks for your response. I had Mid Fifty email me a copy of the installation sketch for the motorized set up that they sell. It is not much help in reality but at least it looks like it pretty much takes the space where the mechanical lever arrangement is located. I do have a combination heat and
AC unit with multiple duct hoses behind the center of the dash.

Ross, Thanks for your response. I am sure that the gasket came from Carpenter. I am sure that I have the gasket in properly. You are the only one that I know of that is satisfied that the vent closes rain tight. I could try another gasket. The new gasket for my windshield with the ss trim worked great.

 

Hey Bill,
We've got a '50 with an operational cowl & we don't have any problems with it leaking. I'll have to go search through my things to see where we got it from.

Ben in Austin
1950 F1

 

I am closing mine off permanently. Too hot here in Houston not to have AC - at least for me. I don't want to take any chances with any water on the wiring, the AC/Heat, and the electric wiper motor anyway. I also got rid of the wing windows so I am counting on the AC (really cool).

 

I am pretty sure my lift motor for the vent came from Mid-Fifties and it is a good one. It is up and down, not round and round, if that makes sense. In other words, it does not reverse and go back up. The motor I used on my 40 does just that and it is irritating. Just when you think it is all the way down, it starts back up.

 

I really like the idea of motorizing the cowl vent, its amazing how well the stock ventilators and cowl vent work ,I'm comfortable on a 95 degree day, of course I don't have the same humidity that some of you have.