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01-30-2013, 04:54 PM | #1 |
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Windshield drain
Where do the hose exit the body on the 36-5 w windshield drains located in the rt and left lower corners of ws body opening? Looks like it might be 3/8 hose
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01-30-2013, 07:41 PM | #2 |
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Re: Windshield drain
The hoses are rather short and go behind the cardboard cowl panels. At the bottom of each cowl is a small drain hole (usually plugged). It doesn't take much imagination to see why so many '35-'36s have rotted out lower cowls.
Rather than dump water behind the cowl panels I routed the two windshield drain hoses over to the cowl vent drain hose where I have installed a 4-way tee. Now everything safely drains out. Hope this helps. Tom |
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01-30-2013, 08:32 PM | #3 |
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Re: Windshield drain
That will work ,didn't think of that.Tks
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01-30-2013, 11:04 PM | #4 |
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Re: Windshield drain
Tom, That is a great idea. Why hadn't I ever thought of that? duh!!!!
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01-31-2013, 10:58 AM | #5 |
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Re: Windshield drain
Toms solution to safely drain the windshield water is a great one...
Ford probably never thought of this because it would take additional length of hose plus a four way tee to connect to the cowl vent drain... That would be more money than Henry Ford would want to spend...
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01-31-2013, 11:36 AM | #6 |
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Let me add one more thing to the windshield drain solution. You can run rubber hoses over to the cowl tee from the windshield drains and everything will work as it should. However, if you have a "sag" in the hose water can stay there. Eventually, the water will evaporate out. If you want to avoid this "reservoir" use a short piece of rubber tubing at the windshield drain and another at the cowl tee. Connect the two rubber pieces with a straight metal tube. No more sag and a quicker drain! Another variation of a windshield drain is to simply drill a small 1/4" hole in the firewall and use a short piece of metal tubing in the hole that reaches into the car. Connect this tubing to a short piece of rubber hose that connects to the windshield drain outlet. This will work. However, I am not real keen on this method because I don't like drilling holes in the firewall. Too often I later regret that I did! Everything considered, either windshield drain modification is much better than the "dump it behind the cowl panel method." Tom |
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