Anyone have the Felpro number for rubber valve cover gaskets for the 239-312?

Dan

Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

aka "The Hot Rod Reverend"
check out the 1955 Ford Fairlane build at www.hotrodreverend.com

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

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Didn't know there was a difference between early and late valve-cover gaskets. If so, why?

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

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

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

If you get one of those air head parts guys, ask for 64 Ford truck (292)

54 Victoria 312;  48 Ford Conv 302, 56 Bird 312
Forever Ford
Midland Park, NJ

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

Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

aka "The Hot Rod Reverend"
check out the 1955 Ford Fairlane build at www.hotrodreverend.com

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?).

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

Daniel:

Ford never put a gasket under the distributor, probably why they are never in the gasket sets.

John

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

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)?

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

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

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"