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1950 Prefect Vacuum Tank
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What year is your car? I have many books, just want to look in the right place.
Cheers, David.
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Nah, maybe it is the chill? I have a large collection of factory lit on Fords, as my Granny is fitted with a 100E motor and a shorrock. Just want to be sure.
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Moochas grass in your arse, Doc. No worries. It is to warm up by weeks end...snow in Malibu yesterday! I do have a vacuum tank from a 1959. Al, do you need to know the pipe arrangment as well?
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The tank is fitted to the left side wheel arch on early cars. Later on the floor pan near the front mudguard apron. The tank has tabs for fitting...should be easy enough to find the holes in the panels?
Cheers, David.
Cheers, David.
The theoretical "purpose" is to improve the performance of the windshield wipers, which are vacuum driven. On my car the slightest acceleration increase stops the wipers in their tracks. I don't how much better it will be with a reservuor (sp?) of vacuum, but it couldn't hurt.
The tank is unfilled by the vacuum from the engine and is in turn attached to the wiper motor under the dash.
Thanks for the input everyone... I'll go look for the holes.
Al
The tank is unfilled by the vacuum from the engine and is in turn attached to the wiper motor under the dash.
Thanks for the input everyone... I'll go look for the holes.
Al
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You should be fine, Al. Do you have the check valve? Let me know if you require anything else.
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Where to start with that one~!
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I've seen those vacuum reserve tanks on Prefects do their job very nicely, thank you! Probably 20 years ago now, my then-brother-in-law had a very nice Prefect, in which the wipers did seem to keep going in situations that would've brought the wipers on my '51 Chevrolet to a halt!
I didn't know about the vacuum reserve tank until he showed it to me. At that moment, I was struck by the fact that it (a Trico part as I recall) bore a most striking resemblance to a vacuum tank I remembered on my mom's old '68 Ford LTD Country Squire! On that car, it served as a reserve tank for the vacuum-operated headlight doors.
I didn't know about the vacuum reserve tank until he showed it to me. At that moment, I was struck by the fact that it (a Trico part as I recall) bore a most striking resemblance to a vacuum tank I remembered on my mom's old '68 Ford LTD Country Squire! On that car, it served as a reserve tank for the vacuum-operated headlight doors.
Bugeye58 said:
Very good sir!
That is a '58 M-37 that I bought from a junk yard about 8 years ago. It only had 10,000 miles on it but I had to rebuild the engine because of the mice in the cylinders. I use it on the farm and I just installed a snow plow in an attempt to change the weather.
I also do cross-word puzzles.
Have a nice day
Steve
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