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10-04-2019, 12:32 PM | #1 |
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39 steering column cover plate
I just acquired a missing piece for my deluxe Tudor project. It is supposed to be a 78-700389 steering column cover plate and is 8" long and 1" wide. Can anyone post a picture of one installed? Does the e-brake cable go under it? From the 78 prefix 37-39 may be the same.
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10-04-2019, 07:13 PM | #2 |
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Re: 39 steering column cover plate
I don't believe 39's had them.
I stand corrected - According to Gary Mallast's 38/39 book they did have them. None of the original 39's I have owned ever had them - they must have been discarded. I'd better start learning at this late stage of my life to keep my mouth closed. Maybe it was the RHD ones that didn't have them. Hardly a weight saver. Last edited by swoopNZ; 10-06-2019 at 12:37 AM. |
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10-04-2019, 07:37 PM | #3 |
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Re: 39 steering column cover plate
Yes ,the '39 had them. Same p/n as the '37-'38 but the '39 had rounded end of the plate versus square ends on the earlier plate. Not sure of the cable routing.
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10-05-2019, 05:29 AM | #4 |
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Re: 39 steering column cover plate
That's what mine looks like and it has a raised section in the middle where it would allow something to pass under it.
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10-05-2019, 03:35 PM | #5 |
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Re: 39 steering column cover plate
Here's the best photo I have that depicts the proper routing of the brake cable.
Also, you can barely see (part of) the plate.
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10-06-2019, 09:38 AM | #6 |
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And yes, the cable is routed below the column seal. There is not other plate.
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10-06-2019, 11:42 AM | #8 |
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10-06-2019, 08:17 PM | #9 |
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Re: 39 steering column cover plate
See attached photos the first one is from the July/Aug V8 Times magazine showing a 37 Ford Plate install. The second is my photo of a 38 - 39 steering column plate. The 38 -39 Ford steering column plate has rounded ends, Ford did not change part number.
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10-06-2019, 08:38 PM | #10 |
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Re: 39 steering column cover plate
See photo. Pedal opening cover plate part number 78-700392. The same pedal plate was used 37 - 39.
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10-06-2019, 08:53 PM | #11 |
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Snoop I should have said 37 - 39 Ford 5 window coupes did not used the steering column plate.
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10-06-2019, 08:56 PM | #12 |
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10-06-2019, 09:01 PM | #13 |
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Yes both 37 and 38 Ford club coupes used the steering column plate.
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10-06-2019, 09:21 PM | #14 |
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thank you!
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10-07-2019, 08:07 AM | #15 |
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Re: 39 steering column cover plate
Not on '39.
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10-07-2019, 09:18 AM | #16 |
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Re: 39 steering column cover plate
Kube I was using Fords Body Parts List booklet form number 7085 dated February 1939 and it shows pedal opening cover plate part # 78-700392 is used on the Tudor, fordor, convertible, 5 window coupe, sedan delivery, and station wagon. If there were changes later I do not know.
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10-07-2019, 10:20 AM | #17 | |
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I have little doubt that plate would fit on a 39... it's just that Ford didn't install one.
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10-07-2019, 11:36 AM | #18 |
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Re: 39 steering column cover plate
Funny you should ask. I spent last evening rerouting the emergency brake cable on my 39 Fordor after I removed it to adjust the e-brake. I could not get the turnbuckle to adjust enough while in the car.
Mine is mostly original, unrestored, and the cable is on top of the trim piece, not under it as in Kube's photo. Mine also has the plate in the second photo on post #9. There seemed to be a lot of space around the steering column in mine. I won't be over there to take a photo for a while, most likely. What a PITA job that was, lying on the floor routing the cable back in place. I don't want to do that again. |
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