Ok, your right and the 1955 Ford Shop Manual is wrong… ha,ha.

BOB

Bob...........No, I didn't buy it new,but I got it from the man that did.When I bought it 17 years ago,it only had 22,000 miles on it.He kept a written record of everything that was ever done to the car.The engine has never been worked on in any way.

 

Paul,

Boonville,MO

Dang it, I got distracted by these other fellows. Your temperature gauge will work just fine without the thermal switch in the passenger side head if you install the proper sending unit in your drivers side head. The thermal switch was installed incase of "restricted coolant flow" (quote directly from Ford Shop Manual, page 141).



Good luck with your project, sounds like your researching and doing it right...




BOB

Redline, I looked it up and I believe you need the bushing with 3/8" female pipe thread in the bushing for your thermal switch. You may want to Double check me on this as since I cannot see the unit you have I can't be sure.

Part # 10911A '55-56. The other bushing is 1/4" pipe thread part # 10911B for '57 up. These #'s are from Tee-Bird Products www.tee-bird.com.



PW, do you have a '55 Shop Manual? Look on the page I stated, you'll see what I am talking about. Just curious though, how are you so sure your car is the same as it left the factory?? Have you owned it for 55 years... I'm impressed, haha.



Hope all this is of some help... I'm done.

BOB

I have two 55 Fords.One of them,I know is absolutely the way it left the factory.It has only one sender.It's in the left head.The other car has only one but I don't know for sure the history of it.

 

Paul,

Boonville,MO

Paul, I am sure as I had a '55 Ford with this set up and everything in quotes in my response is right out of the Ford Shop manual on page 141 as I am looking at it a I type. Even has a picture on page 141 figure 30. One is called the sending unit, the other a thermal switch.



Besides I believe the man already stated he purchased the units, he just was unsure how to install them???

BOB

Are you sure about this. My 54, which was stock, had only one and the drivers side head. My 56 TBird has only one (same side) and the catalogs (CASCO-TBird and Dennis Carpenter-car) only show one. The last dual senders were the flathead (53 - maybe 54 in Canada)

54 Victoria 312;  48 Ford Conv 302, 56 Bird 312
Forever Ford
Midland Park, NJ

Thank you for your time committment & informative response. I think what you said makes sense. I assumed someone must have screwed-in a plug into the threaded fitting on the passenger side when the original sending unit(s) were removed for whatever reason. They may have been long-gone before I ever came along. The wiring was a total mess for everything. I have fixed every light, guage, horn & indicator on the car. This is the last thing I have to get working. I will look for the fitting you are talking about and consult with my car club guys to find out how do install it.

I too had a lot of trouble posting my question earlier today. I was all done typing it in the box and hit the preview button and all I got back was something about "...must use more than HTML characters..."? Fearing I'd loose it all, I copied the text into Notepad, changed the font to Courier and then opened a new post and copied it back in. I almost gave up as well! 

Bill, you are 100% correct. I just got a little (lot) frustrated because I wanted to help the guy and I had to rewrite it so many times. But I went and had a cold one and figure NEXT time I will just write my thoughts in MS Word and copy and paste it to the site.



Thanks alot...

BOB

Bob, the delays affect most of us at sometime, what i,m saying is if you get heldup on the freeway driving home do you walk instead? i know jim and the guys monitor the site. Go work on the bird and come back to it.

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