Is there such a thing, obtainable for us mere mortals, that's a standalone Ford hardware (screws, nuts, bolts, fasteners) and body plug specification decoder? My assembly manuals show hardware part numbers, and they list the "finish" specs, but nowhere does it specify the physical dimensions. I think I remember seeing that information in my '64 - '72 Ford Truck Parts and Accessories manual, but that was on my old Windows driven computer which had a hard drive melt down, and therefore went away. My new computer is an Apple. To avoid that problem while working on my '63 Galaxie, I bought a paper copy of the '60 - '64 Ford Car Parts and Accessories manual, but if that information is in there, it didn't get copied. So do you know of an obtainable source for that information? Do the same part numbers cross between vehicle lines? I would think they should. Thanks for your help.

 

I really know how to spell Number Dummy. Unfortunately, I am too stupid to figure out how to get the computer to let me fix it. Sorry 'bout that!

 

LOL!!

For some reason I never can find my spelling errors until after I post. No idea why.

 

What you need is a bound paper Standard Parts Catalog, printed no earlier than 1964, then editions thru 1972.

Every hardware part is listed with the specs. You look thru the index, find the part number and its page number, then go from there.

The problem is: These catalogs are almost as hard to find as Jimmy Hoffa & Amelia Earhart, two famous 20th century "disappearing acts."

ebay would probably be the only source as they are not reproduced. The only one I have was printed 2/2000, so it wouldn't be of much help.

The 1964/72 Ford Truck Parts Catalog has the standard parts listed, but only under the specific part they were used with.

Ditto the 1960/64 car catalog, which I also have-since I've owned...over the past 40 some years...20 1962/64 Galaxie 500's & 500XL's.

btw: And be aware that the pics of these parts in the Illustration sections of Ford car/truck parts catalogs may not include the complete suffix. The S suffix will be there, but nothing else.

So, you have to find the specific part number in the catalog to verify if the suffix just ends in S .. or has additional numbers and/or letters following it.

 

Click the edit button, go advanced, then it will allow you to edit the thread title.

 

ND, thanks for the help. The CAR parts manuals I have are the blue covered, two volume set, 1969 edition, and when I turned to the text portion, there are the hardware descriptions tucked away individually, just like I remember seeing them on the '64-'72 truck CD-ROM. My memory is canine feces any more. So I guess I won't be looking to buy the Standard Parts Catalog. And I'll suspend my search for Jimmy Hoffa and Amelia, too. Besides, I hear they might have found her - yet again. Do you know of any forums similar to this one that are for Galaxies? The couple I looked at weren't nearly as good as this one. Can you also be persuaded to help with Galaxie parts, and if so, how would I contact you since it isn't pertinent to trucks? Shadowrider - thanks for the editing help.

 

They'll never find any trace of Amelia Earhart's plane, because they're all looking in the wrong place.

Her last message was "Circling, cannot see island, gas getting very low."

The people that claim that after she sent this message, she then flew to Nikumaroro (aka Gardner) Island is BS as it was 400 miles south of Howland Island, where she was heading for.

She was unaware she was flying into a headwind, so her plane probably crashed...at least...100 miles west of Howland Island.

I've spoken with one of the guys searching for her plane. I asked him if he had read the USCG accounts...he hadn't. I told him that's ridiculous, I've read them and I'm not searching for her.

And according to what I've read, they won't find Hoffa either...as his body was tossed into a rendering tank at a slaughter house.

 

email me @ sylhall@aol.com and pass along your phone number.

 

The Nikumaroro theory should be investigated and proved or disproved.


There is also a theory that Flight 19 is in the Everglades, hundreds of miles away from where the Navy thinks their last known position was.


- Truth can be stranger than fiction

 

Earhart's Lockheed Electra flew at roughly 100 MPH .. so there was no way she could have flown to Nikumaroro Island, which was 400 miles south of Howland Island when her last message included "gas getting very low."

And after this last message, nothing was ever heard from her again. So her plane crashed, and whether she and or Noonan escaped to a life raft in unknown.

In order to increase fuel economy, she had the long trailing radio antenna removed at Lae New Guinea, her last stop before taking off...into the unknown.

Without this antenna, she had no idea where she was as her radio skills were very poor. Plus, her radio messages could be heard by the USN radio operators, but she couldn't hear them.

She was also unknowingly flying into a headwind, so she was probably at least 100 miles west of Howland Island when her plane crashed.

Her flight was doomed from the beginning...and this was her second attempt at an around the world flight. The first attempt (flying west from CA) ended in Hawaii when her plane ground looped during takeoff.

I'm familiar with the Bermuda Triangle wheeze and Flight 19 which probably crashed into the Atlantic...100's of miles east of the Everglades.

 

ND, I have many years of experience using dead reckoning navigation.


Dead Reckoning is time - speed - direction.


If her compass, time piece, or calculated speed were in error, she could have been many miles from where she thought she was.


Fred's sextant may have been in error as well, or he could have made some mathematical errors.


Im not convinced either way.


I am convinced that it is very easy to get lost over the vast oceans.

 

Her Electra also had a Bendix radio detection system, which was installed just before she took off from Oakland on the first leg of her first attempt (flying west). She had very limited training on how to use it.

When she landed in Oahu, it was discovered to be out of whack. The plane was then flown to USN airbase on Ford Island, which is surrounded by the waters of Pearl Harbor to fix it and do other repairs.

When she attempted to take off 3 days later, the plane never left the ground as it ground looped, landing gear collapsed, tearing/bending much of the fuselage from the bottom of the plane.

She claimed a tire blew, but Paul Mantz, a well known flier who was accompaning her (along with 2 navigators), said it was pilot error due to her unfamiliarity of the Electra's variable pitch propellers.

Mantz from this point on had nothing more to do with her as did her second navigator.

IMO, despite all the hype...Earhart was not a very skilled pilot. In fact, it was her husband who had come up with this plan to fly around the world, she wasn't very keen on the idea from the get go.