....or perhaps it was some sort of aftermarket Horn? The cone end could have rusted off?

 

How did it come to be behind the bumper on your 1964 Lincoln?
What appears to be inside? how many wires, is there a ground?
Long long ago like in the 50's 60's if you were smart or wealthy you would bury a receiving coil near your driveway and connect a receiver into your garage door opener, when you pulled into your driveway you would activate a hidden coil usually under your front bumper, a crude tuned oscillator would signal the remote receiver to open your garage door.
Basically a Flintstone's version of a modern garage door opener.

Cadillac's of those years also had a similar transmitting coil behind the grille although theirs was a little more high tech, it had a few transistors in the circuit.


Well at least that is what it reminded me of from someone who has seen many wierd things in my life.
Jim

 

Ordered a new Southbend clutch for my NV4500 swap from Thoroughbred Diesel. They were having a 7% off sale and threw this in with the order. Good company.

 

Ghay.
Good company indeed. For your Yeti decal.

 

The car was bought with it installed there. One of those odd rare barn find cars sitting amongst a collection of mostly Lincolns and a few other like model Ford cars with a couple 55-57 t-birds and things. Over 20 off the 50 or of the 60s vintage Lincoln's there were convertibles. Only a few had been driven most of them had been sitting inside a building for who knows how long, 30 plus years I would assume.

I had the horn idea in mind but nothing on it appeared to have been broken or missing. It was the only thing somewhat logical that I could come up with to have the push button on the bottom of the dash.

Jim I think you have the best estimation with the automatic garage door device thing. I assume it was grounded to the bumber with the button supplying the 12 volt power source when pushed.

 

I'm still holding on to the license plate flips down and it's a flame thrower or machine gun. More exciting than a garage door opener...

 

I just finished changing the leaky head gasket and timing case gasket. While I was in there, I swapped the lift pump, oil pump, tappet cover gasket, tabbed the KDP and painted everything up. Whew!

-Niemand

 

Rear main seal question.

When I did the rear main on my little truck, I had the pan off as well to replace the pan gasket. I'm wanting to do the rear main in my 93 when I'm doing my trans swap. Should I just silicone the bottom where it mated to the oil pan?

 

You want to reuse the old pan gasket and silicone it at any breaks or joints. I would put a small bead on each side of the gasket to make up for any nicks from scraping it away from the pan or seal housing.

 

Be sure to clean the area well with some spray degreaser so the silicone will adhere well.

 

Put the seal in dry. Don't put anything on it.

Black engine RTV on the ends where the rear main seal joins the pan gasket.

And a bead on the back part of the pan gasket.

No need to RTV the sides.

Genuine Mopar sealant adds 2.7 horse torques as it cools any engine oil that it contacts.

 

All new front end... Almost feeneeshed

 

Holy Mother of Gawd Man!! That is a schweet looking front end! Congrats on the hard work. No WAIT!! Is that a spec of dirt on that caliper? Naw, just kidding!

Cheers!

Mike

 

Wow,
That looks too nice to cover up with the wheels,
I would be parking on top of mirrors to show it off.

 

excellent pictures. for some reason they look much sharper over here.
glad you came over to visit us on the dark side