So I bought my 1963 hardtop 9 days ago and joined Squarebirds 6 days ago. I ordered the shop manual a couple of days later and have been waiting anxiously for it so that I could sort out a couple of issues. It finally arrived today, but after reading through the appropriate sections, I'm no closer to figuring out what's going on, so here I am. Having spent too many hours this past week reading every post I could find here, I'm confident that you guys can help me out.
I'm most interested in sorting out two issues first:
1. The carburetor (Holley 4160, I believe) has a hot air choke, but it's not connected and I can't figure out how to hook it up. The previous owner had installed this carb, and mentioned it wasn't hooked up.
2. The brake booster has no vacuum hoses attached, and I'd like to have them hooked up properly as well. It's still all drums -- I'd like to convert to disc, but that isn't today -- so I'd like to have them working as well as they can.
Some background... the previous owner pulled the engine from a pickup, but I don't know what year. He said it's still an FE 390, and I'm inclined to believe him as he has several other Fords from that year that he's done a lot to and seemed to know what he's doing. (He has a beautiful Galaxie.) I've read that I might need to measure to know for sure, but I haven't had a chance to do that yet. It seems that casting numbers can be located several places from what I've read. All I've noted so far are those below the air cleaner, which say 3B6 and then below that C3AE9425B. Do those help at all in identifying this engine?
The reason I feel identifying the engine might be important is because from what I've gathered from the manual, for both the hot air choke as well as the vacuum for the brake booster, it says that there should be ports in the exhaust manifold; one on each side.
But, I don't seem to be able to locate anything that looks like those ports, and I'm wondering if a different year engine might not have them. There are some co****-threaded holes that look like a bolt could go in there, but I think those are used to lift the engine, or something along those lines. They don't seem to go into the manifold, but just bottom out.
On the right exhaust manifold, there are two small holes near the back, and I can't tell if it looks like they should do anything or not.
Any help, or thoughts at all, are appreciated.
Scott
I'm most interested in sorting out two issues first:
1. The carburetor (Holley 4160, I believe) has a hot air choke, but it's not connected and I can't figure out how to hook it up. The previous owner had installed this carb, and mentioned it wasn't hooked up.
2. The brake booster has no vacuum hoses attached, and I'd like to have them hooked up properly as well. It's still all drums -- I'd like to convert to disc, but that isn't today -- so I'd like to have them working as well as they can.
Some background... the previous owner pulled the engine from a pickup, but I don't know what year. He said it's still an FE 390, and I'm inclined to believe him as he has several other Fords from that year that he's done a lot to and seemed to know what he's doing. (He has a beautiful Galaxie.) I've read that I might need to measure to know for sure, but I haven't had a chance to do that yet. It seems that casting numbers can be located several places from what I've read. All I've noted so far are those below the air cleaner, which say 3B6 and then below that C3AE9425B. Do those help at all in identifying this engine?
The reason I feel identifying the engine might be important is because from what I've gathered from the manual, for both the hot air choke as well as the vacuum for the brake booster, it says that there should be ports in the exhaust manifold; one on each side.
But, I don't seem to be able to locate anything that looks like those ports, and I'm wondering if a different year engine might not have them. There are some co****-threaded holes that look like a bolt could go in there, but I think those are used to lift the engine, or something along those lines. They don't seem to go into the manifold, but just bottom out.
On the right exhaust manifold, there are two small holes near the back, and I can't tell if it looks like they should do anything or not.
Any help, or thoughts at all, are appreciated.
Scott
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