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Mccurdy7778
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 Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:45 am Post subject: Help, what the heck is this? |
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| Can someone help me? here are two pictures. This is my first bug; 67. The first picture shows some ceramic piece in the back after I gutted the interior. What is this piece called? I'm assuming it's a sound/heat dampener. It's not part of the firewall right? Second picture is of the dashboard. What is the bottom right knob for? Is it the auto choke? The previous owner snipped the wires on it.... No idea what either of these things are. If someone could help that would be great |
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Miklo
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| Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:51 am Post subject: |
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Hard to say... it's not original. Follow the wires under the hood.
Youre right on this one, it's sound/heat shield.
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Mccurdy7778
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| Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:56 am Post subject: Knob |
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| So that knob isn't original? It isn't the auto choke or anything? The wires are snipped I can't follow it to anything. And the heat shield. Is it ceramic? I want to know its name/what it is so I can replace it. |
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Miklo
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Not original. Not a choke, last year for choke was 1960 I believe.
I don't think it is ceramic. It's some kind of fiber board... at least mine is...
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| Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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Looks similar to a gas heater knob. Any holes in the trunk?
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Mccurdy7778
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| Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| no holes that i see. but that is probably it... Thanks guys |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:56 am Post subject: |
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It may have been a cheap bypass switch for the failing of another function. If the stock wiper switch broke, a guy could have snuck one speed to the wipers, or parking lights to the bulbs, etc. It's a standard, off the shelf universal fitsemall switch- courtesy of FLAPS.
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Mccurdy7778
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| That's probably it. Whatever it went too has been disconnected so i will probably just pull it out and patch the hole. |
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Bunglebus
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Could be hazard warning lights (four way flashers to you guys)? Thought they came stock from '68 but lots of European stuff around this era got fitted with them, my '77 Ford Escort had retro-fitted one just like it.
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