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By Daniel Jessup - 18 Years Ago
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Anyone have the Felpro number for rubber valve cover gaskets for the 239-312? Dan
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By Ted - 18 Years Ago
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Try these Fel-Pro numbers and see if they get you where you want to go. VS10680-R Listed for '54-59 models VS12949-R Listed for '60-62 models
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By DANIEL TINDER - 18 Years Ago
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Didn't know there was a difference between early and late valve-cover gaskets. If so, why?
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By Hoosier Hurricane - 18 Years Ago
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Later ones had 4 tabs that locked into notches in the valve cover. I think they were thinner also. The tabs can be cut of and used on early covers. John
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By paul2748 - 18 Years Ago
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If you get one of those air head parts guys, ask for 64 Ford truck (292)
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By Daniel Jessup - 18 Years Ago
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fellas - this confirms my original thoughts (per Ted's numbers) - the guy has a set he will give me for only $3.50, and they are new, less than 5 years old in the box. He wouldn't open them. I believe we have a deal! Dan
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By DANIEL TINDER - 18 Years Ago
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I had forgotten, but there WAS a set of thin gaskets with tabs in the Fel-Pro set (I sold all the extra/unneeded ones). I had assumed they were for the early truck motors, as every conceivable (many unidentifiable) Y-related gasket was included (does anyone EVER use the distributor gasket?).
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By Hoosier Hurricane - 18 Years Ago
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Daniel: Ford never put a gasket under the distributor, probably why they are never in the gasket sets. John
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By DANIEL TINDER - 18 Years Ago
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John,
Part # 12143 (gasket-distributor base) listed in the '49-'59 Ford Part & Accessory Text Catalog for the '52 223 six, and all '58 pass./T-bird engines, including the 292.
Is this a catalog error? Was it ever installed on FE/MEL motors ( as depicted on pages 377 & 378 of the illustrations catalog)?
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By Hoosier Hurricane - 18 Years Ago
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Daniel: Never saw that listing before. I stand corrected. Never tore down an engine that had one though. As to the FE distributors, I'll stick my neck out again and say that all of them I remember had a groove around the distributor base and used a molded neoprene lip type seal. But maybe the earliest FEs used a gasket. John
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By charliemccraney - 18 Years Ago
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The distributors you can pick up at the local parts store use o-rings. I think they are Autolite - the triangular body ones.
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By DANIEL TINDER - 18 Years Ago
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John,
The '58 distributor drawing shows the molded/lip gasket included in the Fel-Pro set. If all '58 V-8s used the same distributor (?) as suggested in the catalog, could it be that it was optional on the Y-block, but neccessary on the FE/MEL? Must be a reason Fel-Pro includes it. I think the flat cork, 223 six-type gasket that novices sometimes mistakenly install under the Y-block dist. may double for the early fuel bowl?
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