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I reconditioned the deluxe heater box in my '64. It's pretty easy to remove from the truck. In my YouTube video linked below I point out the resister at the 12:34 minute mark. ~Pat
Ha1 Yeah, it is awfully clean. Like I said, it wasn't exactly what I was looking for but it was so complete and unmolested that I couldn't stop thinking about it after seeing it for the first time. The guy I got it from told me he got it from an older woman so... maybe you're right! There are a surprising number of these trucks around here once you get to looking and talking to folks. This is one of the best Ive come across ( in my price range)
Would like to see your hearse. Too cool. Always kind of wanted one. Hope you weathered the quake ok.
Hope this helps. I'm not gonna crawl around under the dash and take pics! lol Trust me, it's like Italian spices in Spaghetti, they're in there. The first time I cranked the heater on years ago cruisin' on the highway smoke poured out of the Defrost vent. I got lucky.
Hope this helps. I'm not gonna crawl around under the dash and take pics! lol Trust me, it's like Italian spices in Spaghetti, they're in there. The first time I cranked the heater on years ago cruisin' on the highway smoke poured out of the Defrost vent. I got lucky.
Thanks for posting the picture, we haven't wired the cab yet and I wasn't sure how the switch gets wired. This will definitely help! ~Pat
This is from a 1965 2WD with 2-speed heater, but my 1966 is identical to this. Resistor is attached to the side of the Heater Housing Rear Cover Assembly. The 3 studs are what you see sticking through the firewall on the engine side.
C5TZ-18B447-A - Heater Housing Rear Cover Assembly - 1 each
It used the screws
42127-S8 (U248C) - Screw (resistor to core case) - No. 10-12 x 1/2" - 2 each
I believe we may have a little more Ford-based confusion. My truck is NOT wired that way. Nor does it have a resistor. It has three wires from the switch; power, hi and lo speed. Power comes from the fusebox, natch; the other two go directly to the blower, which has two leads, red and orange (this is incredibly easy to trace, as there is 16" between switch and blower, and the blower leads are 16" long...). The brushes are offset to give two speeds, depending on which one is powered (the two are never powered together). This matches exactly (as does the switch, the blower, the *****, etc.) the heater blower on my 1961 Falcon, which heater core I also replaced. Both for the same reasons: A: it's not that hard. B: it's old. C: it's very likely clogged with radiator anti-leak.
The above diagram DOES make sense, as many of the replacement blower motors do not have the two leads, so that setup must be used in the case of a replacement blower, to retain two speeds.
So, I just don't know what is stock, is one a "kit" for a replacement blower, or are they both stock??
Might just be that they are Fords, and 'stock' is a fungible condition.
Cosmo
P.S. As to the original "fire starter" post: the resistor seems to be mounted at the top of the blower housing, leading one to wonder just how many leaves were IN the housing to allow the resistor to ignite them. Too, the cowl plenum goes to the lower cowl vents, BELOW the heater intake, giving one even more reason to wonder, really, just HOW MANY leaves are we talking here??
P.P.S. Just to help, I have owned 30 mid-sixties Fords, every one save a Fairlane, duplicates of most. This is not my first mid-sixties Ford rodeo.
The guy who started the thread has a 1965 so I'm answering questions about that. Sorry if information about 1965 and 1966 is not applicable to anyone else's systems or causes any confusion.
What Ted posted is called a "circuit diagram". Handy, but mostly from an electrical connection standpoint. It's not really supposed to show component location.
As to the original "fire starter" post: the resistor seems to be mounted at the top of the blower housing, leading one to wonder just how many leaves were IN the housing to allow the resistor to ignite them. Too, the cowl plenum goes to the lower cowl vents, BELOW the heater intake, giving one even more reason to wonder, really, just HOW MANY leaves are we talking here??
I'm not sure how they get in there exactly, from the fresh air intake itself, or what. I pulled a couple handfuls of oak leaves out last year. It doesn't really matter, it's enough as a practical matter to start the whole damn thing on fire once it gets going and burn it to the ground. Maybe it's not "common" for this to happen but it isn't quite unusual, either. Just something to beware of was all I was trying to get across.
A hard mounted medium size fire extinguisher is a good accessory in any vehicle as far as I'm concerned. Pretty sure the DOT requires it, in the .mil every truck had them, along with a set of warning triangles and road flares.
I about had to stand on my head to take this picture but it shows the resistor on my white 1966 F250 4x4. You have to reach fingers between the plenum chamber and the firewall to feel it, right about where the housing makes a dog leg.
A hard mounted medium size fire extinguisher is a good accessory in any vehicle as far as I'm concerned. Pretty sure the DOT requires it, in the .mil every truck had them, along with a set of warning triangles and road flares.
If you run over an IED these are very good things to have...especially the warning triangles.
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