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Try Earle Brown listed on the club website for engine parts. With all the aftermarket parts out there, mostly old one never knows. I would think the mechanic doing the rebuilding would check the clearances of the pistons. And when you're over-boring and using larger pistons I think most bets are off as to the outcome. You could shave them off, but you might upset the balance of the engine. In race engines they balance every moving part, I doubt over the counter parts are balanced. A quality machine shop should be able to rebuild the engine properly. Good Luck!

Sean....there should be a nut that mounts the wiper control to the dash that goes under the knob. The knob alone won't hold it properly in place. You should be able to find a nut and a thin washer at a hardware store that would properly mount the wiper control. It will be a very thin nut probably about 3/8" threaded onto the shaft that fell inside the dash when the old knob was removed. You can probably see it with a mirror and flashlight and just push it back through the hole in the dash and put a nut on it. Good Luck!

Check with Knob Soup about their knobs. They are cast from known good parts so they should fit. Keith Lee will help you figure it out. You might have to drill some additional holes in the new glove box handle so the screws will fit exactly. Good luck with it!

Earl Brown should have one. I think they are unique to Lincoln so probably Ford doesn't use one like this. Boos Harrel might have one!

There are places that will rebuild them. Had my '41 redone some time ago, but don't remember who did it. Check with the club to see who's doing what! Also google repairs of old vacuum wipers and you might find someone who's still fixing them. I was tempted to try to replace it with an electric version, but in the interest of originality I opted for repair and keeping it original. And I can't remember driving it in the rain anyway!

Looks like a homemade valve of some sort. You can see the brazing on the side where a fitting for a pipe or hose might have been intended. Could be an attempt to control water flow to a heater.

Without a serial number (VIN # in today's language) it is almost impossible to find it if it still exists. I tried to find my dad's 39 Zephyr coupe, but didn't have the serial number to even start looking for it. I had old license plate numbers, but our illustrious state governments purged all old registration files years ago so there are no records on these old cars as to their serial numbers. There might be some records somewhere someone might have saved, but who knows where they might be in this day and time. Even old insurance records might have information, but that's a tail chase too as those records were probably destroyed too. Ford does have records of 'As Built' for some of their vehicles, but all are listed by serial numbers from what I understand. I got the "As Built" on my '41 Zephyr, but then I had the serial number as I had to register it. Good Luck tracking it down!

Just noticed this fuel pump which should work for you on eBay!

There are new reproductions of those fuel pumps, and the Ford ones are interchangable with Lincoln. Ole Henry did use the same parts on either vehicles at times, at least internally. You can get them with the glass bowl which lets you see if you're getting gas from the tank. I have an electric booster fuel pump in my fuel line to help get the gas to the carb quicker. It's mounted under the chassis in the gas line from the tank. And don't forget to put in a good fuel filter to help get the junk from the tank out of the gas going to the carb. You can find rebuilt pumps and get kits to rebuild them, but it's hardly worth the trouble. The biggest problem with fuel pumps if when the diaphram in the pump leaks gas into the oil. They all eventually breakdown with the old style of pumps. Good Luck!

Try Earl Brown who's listed in the club website. He has all sorts of mechanical parts, he lives in Pennsylvania. Also Merv Adkins in California or Chris @ Boos Herrel might have them. The bolt you could easily make if you can find the exact size in a hardware store, and drill a hole in the head. Good Luck!

Sounds like an oil pump problem, you might have to take the pan off and check out the pump and see if it's there and properly driven. Some rebuilds aren't like others! There are high volume pumps available if yours isn't working. Best to contact one of the distributors listed on the club's suppliers and get all the small parts/pickup screens with it should you decide to replace it if it wasn't replaced when the engine was rebuilt.

I got a lot of the rubber parts I needed for my 41 Zephyr from Metro Molded in Minneapolis. They are on line and probably they will have what you need. Good luck!

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Keith does a great job on the knobs. In the old days Ford and others made plastic knobs out of soy beans, and in time they deteriorate and the bugs eat them. The resins that Keith uses won't do that. Urethane is very stable. He made me a bunch of knobs for my 41 including the radio ones. Even if you found NOS ones, they're not near as good as the ones from Knobsoup! He can make any knob including the complete steering wheels.

There was someone selling the fire wall insulation pads on eBay a while back, watch for them to reappear. You might google it and find some. Each car is different so choose carefully. Grommets are around, I think Steel Rubber might have some, and the parts dealers on the web site probably have them too. If you can get some good closeup photos of the firewall inside and outside of the vehicle that will help as there are different size grommets on the firewall.

It will take a good machine shop some time to clean up the block and reconstruct it to run properly. Not sure but it looks like an expensive proposition but worth it if you can get it back together with proper parts.

JC Whitney lists one that might work. Also Speedway Motors has some I think. Check it out! Distributor

1936-48 Lincoln V-12 rebuilt distributor assembly HB-12127 | eBay Here's an example of a rebuilt distributor for sale. Don't know if it's properly calibrated or not, and you still need rebuilt caps and the coil to go with it. Might be better to just have your own rebuilt and calibrated but it does give you a look at one. Also new spark plugs and wires will help insure the best operation with all of this!

Probably your distributor needs rebuilding. There are remanufactured rotors and caps as they wear down and the gap between them and the plates on each side where the spark plug wires connect are out of tolerance. Distributor setup and repairs need experienced mechanics fixing them, as well as proper calibration and new points and condensers. The coil on top of the distributor also needs rebuilding. Skip Haney in Florida actually removes and cleans out the coils and replaces them with new Ford ignition coils for a nice hot spark. Old coils do break down over time as the varnish on the copper wiring gives way and the coils have turns shorts which doesn't allow full spark voltage to the plugs. Jake Fleming in Dallas has always done a good job on the distributors getting them working properly, they it's just a matter of a little 'plug and play for you to reinstall them. Good Luck!

Good idea.....spend a few bucks and save yourself a lot of grief having to go back in and replace them later. Very important to properly oil the lifters as they can get very noisy from lack of lube. Engineers of that day did the best they could with the problematic V12 engines.

You might check with Earle Brown who's contact information is on the club site as he has motor components. If you try to clean and repair them and they fail you have to tear it all down again which is a bummer. If replacement units are available that would be better. Boos Harrel might have them too. Good luck in your search!

A good radio repairman could probably take the old connector off your speaker and mount it on the new one. In the grand scheme of things it's a lot more important to get a good sounding speaker and not worry about connecting the speaker cable to the new speaker. Wiring terminals work and you can also solder them for a great connection! And no one is going to see the speaker anyway so it's not very important!

Ford won't have speakers for that old of a vehicle, but there are a lot of aftermarket speakers. Check with a local auto audio shop that installs sound systems in vehicles. Bigger magnets have better base response too.

Actually if you can find a good auto upholstery shop in your area they can do a first class job if they know the correct materials to use and the correct patterns. There was a shop in Ohio some time ago that made the carpets for my 41 LZ. They had the exact pattern and color for the wool carpet and it fit well. My leather was done by a very qualified guy who knew how to make it look original. Even the headliner looks original and new. Those kits that LeBaron had were good I suppose, but the art of good upholstery takes a lot of experience if it's done properly. Shop around and see who's out there willing to take it on. Not cheap, but do it right once and you're set!