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67-70 AC-Heater Vacuum Pod Finish Discussion

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67gtasanjose:
Again, working on the Select-Aire on my 67:

Has anyone found a product (paint?) to refinish the vacuum pods with? It was originally a greenish coating like sometimes seen on carburetors.

J_Speegle:

--- Quote from: 67gtasanjose on April 21, 2016, 01:11:13 PM ---Again, working on the Select-Aire on my 67:

Has anyone found a product (paint?) to refinish the vacuum pods with? It was originally a greenish coating like sometimes seen on carburetors.

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Would play with the green spray Eastwood sold as part of the four pack of paints used to fake zinc dichromate. Use it to tint 66-67 smog pieces and 67-up ported vacuum switches/bodies

67gtasanjose:

--- Quote from: J_Speegle on April 21, 2016, 07:51:30 PM ---Would play with the green spray Eastwood sold as part of the four pack of paints used to fake zinc dichromate. Use it to tint 66-67 smog pieces and 67-up ported vacuum switches/bodies

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Eastwood sku# 10334Z, Zinc Dichromate Green Step #3, 12 oz is available by itself.

Ordered, and thank you for this suggestion. I included a can of their bare metal clear but wonder if I should topcoat the green coating or not.

On another note, back to the heater/ac restorations...now working on the separate Blower Assembly,
I had difficulty getting the rusted squirrel cage off of the motor, the metal shaft of the motor is very soft that even a brass drift was peening the shaft.  I devised a way to use an OTC 7185 (name brand of tool) Power Steering Pulley Puller tool on the squirrel cage hub that worked fabulously without destroying the squirrel cage. This modified the hub to accept the style tool I have to press the motor shaft though. It involved running the blower motor (while held down) and using a cut-off wheel ( with a disc that was half worn down), and while the assembly was spinning, I cut a groove into the hub very close to the center of the set screw that was the intended method Ford used to secure the squirrel cage to the motor (set screw was removed). This was where the tool gripped the hub of the squirrel cage. 

NOTE: I needed to cut down a hardened metric bolt which fit snuggly inside the hole of the tool, then cut it off to length, leaving enough threads of the tool available to have a 'full press" of the shaft. In my particular tool it was a size 12 shouldered bolt and I first cut the head of the 12 mm shouldered bolt off (using cut-off wheel), measured the length needed to do this function, gripped this "remainder of the bolt' with the chuck of a 3/8" power drill, spun the bolt with the drill while first cutting off to length, then machining (again with my cut-off wheel) the improvised driver adapter down to a size smaller than the shaft of the motor (my eyes say it was just under 5/16").

(look at 1st picture below to see the improvised driver adapter located in front of the PS pulley tool & the original tool adapter)

carlite65:
great solution there. i'll have to remember that one!

J_Speegle:
Richard - new trick WITH pictures :)

Your the man    8)

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