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I changed the bungs while the heads (and intake) were still on the engine and the engine was in the car.Not really difficult, but I did have to move/remove some of the gas pedal  linkage to do so.  I used the tool from CASCO to remove


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Paul, if you reread Daniel Tinder's last post, maybe you'll have a better understanding of mine.

Sorry if I contributed to the confusion. 
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DANIEL TINDER (6/25/2023)
This thread has me confused. My 6V/292 ‘55 T-Bird has replacement (post ‘56) 113 heads.  I have had to replace the sender before (NOS/6V part), and it screwed right in with no issues. Does that mean the Ford dealer mechanic who changed heads back in the 60s/70s must have used some kind of thread adapter?

Looking at the Ford parts catalog, there were not separate part numbers for the left and right side cylinder heads.  This leads me to believe that the bungs and freeze plugs were not already installed in the replacement heads and were either included loose with the heads or ordered separately.  It was then up to the installer to put the freeze plug and/or bung in their appropriate locations.

Assuming the 113 heads originally came with a ¼” NPT bung for the temperature sending unit, the dealer likely just changed out the existing bung to the correct 3/8” NPT bung for installation on the earlier engine.



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This likely must be an issue I dealt with in the past, but has totally escaped my memory.  The ‘G’ heads I installed on my back-up motor wouldn’t have been left uncompleted, and I’ve always intended to retain the 6V system.  I’ll have to double check that detail wasn’t overlooked though, by trying to screw in a 6V sender (been putting off the engine swap BTW for many years, but since orig. block’s 10W-40 oil pressure is now barely keeping the 10#-per-1000rpm minimum, it probably won’t be long).

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DANIEL TINDER (6/26/2023)
This likely must be an issue I dealt with in the past, but has totally escaped my memory.  The ‘G’ heads I installed on my back-up motor wouldn’t have been left uncompleted, and I’ve always intended to retain the 6V system.  I’ll have to double check that detail wasn’t overlooked though, by trying to screw in a 6V sender…


Yes, was done.  Sorry for the memory lapse (Geez, don’t get old).

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