1939 Ford Carb question

[Veeder]

Not sure but if you can’t get it to idle well there is a chance the advance mechanism in the distributor is jammed up.

[rayro39]

thnx Veeder

[Tinker]

In mid 38 ford went with a 1 yr design from chandler-groves. Once the contract ran out they handed out the chandler-groves design to Holley to produce the 94 carb at volume needed. Henry was good at making contracts, much like Bill Gates.


Had an intake like that on a 42 ford I had. Being the banjo bolt was cast and brittle it didn't survive my best effort removing it. Really bummed me out and almost impossible to replace. Probably like yours. Being I was less then concerned about it at that time, I just plugged it to make sure it didn't have a vacuum leak.

To my understand, the banjo was to run vacuum to the wiper and dizzy. Reason there is a check valve as pictured before to keep the vacuum constant to the dizzy till the wiper needed it.



Prior to that ford used strombergs. I like strombergs. Can always run vacuum off that port, just have to use different fittings.


My 42 turtle back I sold.

[51woodie]

Ray. Here is a picture of where the vacuum line with the brass fitting, connects to the front cover that the distributor is mounted, on my '46 Coupe. It was a bit warmer this morning (-10C) and the little white specks you see are ice crystals. The brown wire is coil secondary to distributor and the black is points to coil primary

[rayro39]

Thank you 51Woodie