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08-24-2021, 08:39 PM | #1 |
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Need some '35 floorboard seal insight
When I bought my coupe it came with a set on new floorboards, plus a box of Drake's floorboard seals. The wooden floorboards fit nicely -- but the fit of the seals is pretty sloppy. They're also quite thick.
Anyone have any experience with these seals? I'm thinking I could cut them up to fit them better, then glue them to the floorboard before bolting them into place. Has anyone else wrestled with these?
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08-25-2021, 12:22 AM | #2 |
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Re: Need some '35 floorboard seal insight
Yep, I think you got this.
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08-25-2021, 02:31 AM | #3 |
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Re: Need some '35 floorboard seal insight
Drake's floorboard seals for 1935 Ford Coupe. |
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Re: Need some '35 floorboard seal insight
Detonator, There is a fair amount of evidence that Ford used an anti-squeak material as a seal for 35 and some 36 passenger car floor boards. This anti squeak was stapled on to the wooden floor board as the images attached show.
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Re: Need some '35 floorboard seal insight
You're right on Don, as usual. That rubber seal thingie is a Back-order Bob product.
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Checking my 1935 Ford parts book shows a 48-700364-B floorboard dust seal, my 1936 Ford parts book shows a 68-700364 (RH) and 68-700365 (LH). As the floorboards are asymmetric that would imply the 48- is a "universal strip" and the 68- are form fit. Note that the 48-700364-B implies there was a 48-700364 or 48-700364-A, so who knows what all changes were made (Until Don mines that information from the archives). My conclusion... you have a 1935 floorboard and a 1936 seal, and the two do not play well together. |
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Photos supplied by Don Rogers. |
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I have nothing to add to this thread except that I am constantly amazed at the tremendous amount of knowledge on this forum. In addition to the known experts, many others are also very knowledgeable.
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One of my '35's has a sheet metal toe board on the left, driver's side, and I don't believe there is, or ever was, any anti-squeak material around this board.
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Re: Need some '35 floorboard seal insight
John, I believe that the steel floor board also used anti-squeak material. They used rivets instead of staples to hold on the material. Those rivets are still evident in the enclosed backside view of the steel board.
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Re: Need some '35 floorboard seal insight
Don,
The steel toe board in my early '35 phaeton, of which I am the second owner, had much of the riveted-on webbing intact. |
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"John, I believe that the steel floor board also used anti-squeak material. They used rivets instead of staples to hold on the material. Those rivets are still evident in the enclosed backside view of the steel board."- Don Rogers
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Update: I was able to make the BD rubber seals work -- after cutting them up, punching holes where they were missing, etc etc. Thanks to Don's original diagram I edge-stapled the seals instead of face-stapling them, which gave me a good flush edge all the way around the top of the floorboard. Thanks everyone for your insight! Now...on to the transmission cover.
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Don, thanks for the clarification on this. I'll check that sheet metal toe board to see if I can find any remnants of the anti-squeak material, possibly still attached at those rivets.
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