Never got a answer so its probably sold,dont know if I really would of bought it since it supposively had a spun bearing unless I could of got it for next to nothing.

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I think only those Birds with the engine "dress up" option had the chrome fan?


6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

A few other differences between '55 pass car and T Bird,

The Birds had an inline glass fuel filter up near the carb, the pass cars had a glass filter under the fuel pump

The Birds had chrome 3 blade fans, the pass car fans were painted

The Birds had a road draft tube out of the valley cover down the right side of the engine near the starter, the pass cars had the road draft tube on the left side of the block.

The birds have a Timing Chain Cover like the truck ie long bolt bosses around the damper for the front steady rest but there are no tapped holes in the flats on top. The pass cars TCC's have no flatsor tapped holes on top and have short bolt bosses

If the engine isn't going in a T bird not too much of this matters,  In fact the specific T bird stuff, primarily the Harmonic balancer, the side steady rests, the distributor and the oil pan are worth a lot to the T bird people and not so much to the performance Y's guys unless they are running T birds.

Most origiinal '55's were 272's but there were also 292's in pass cars, ALL '55 birds were 292's

Doug T

The Highlands, Louisville, Ky.

Didn't the end of the heads have a freeze plug in them too?

  Vic Correnti

The T-Bird front engine mount is a stamped steel bracket that places the mounting pad under the front pulley.  Trucks aslo do it this way.  It uses brackets on the side of the block for steady rests.

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

I’ll add that all 1957 Ford car 292 and 312 engines had 'Thunderbird V8' on the valve covers so don’t let that confuse you.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

I presume it should have a rear sump oil pan and is it different then the one for the truck.

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Specific to ’55-’57 Thunderbird engines would be:

 

1” spacer behind the water pump

Forward facing outlet on the thermostat housing

Tach drive on the distributor

Special mount that allows generator to be mounted further forward

Unique harmonic damper that has the pulleys much further forward.

Unique exhaust manifold on the drivers side

Rear sump oil pan (different than pickup and truck models)

 

This is all that comes to mind so anyone else add those items I missed.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

The "real" Thunderbird engine should have a one inch thick "spacer" between the waterpump and the front cover - also a tach drive distributor. T-birds have a unique crankshaft dampener with pulleys - and the timing marks are on the pulley.

LIke the later FE engines, the "Thunderbird" valve cover markings are not too indicative of the engine components.

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

What is T bird specific that I need to look for.

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