| 37hump | -- 09-11-2013 @ 5:16 PM |
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can anyone tell me what these guages are out of,all 4 guages are electric, thanks Tom
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| nelsb01 | -- 09-12-2013 @ 3:02 PM |
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1939 Standard.
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| kubes40 | -- 09-12-2013 @ 3:05 PM |
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Not '39 standard. Attached is a photo of a '39 standard gauge cluster. Very strange that there is an electric temp gauge in this critter. Foreign perhaps?
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| 37hump | -- 09-12-2013 @ 4:17 PM |
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kubes40, awsome dash you have, I have 39 guages also they look just like yours, somebody on fordbarn mentioned a 39 ford rear engine bus , can't find a pic of the dash, but it would make sense, a 40 foot capiallary tube wouldn't work, I keep trying to find out. Tom
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| kubes40 | -- 09-12-2013 @ 7:01 PM |
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That's an interesting suggestion... bus. So interesting I looked through my bus literature. Sure enough... '39 AND '40 transit bus. Whomever suggested that, I give a lot of credit to!
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| 37hump | -- 09-13-2013 @ 5:34 AM |
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if you ever see a pic of a dash in a transit bus let me know, thanks tom
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| kubes40 | -- 09-13-2013 @ 6:58 AM |
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Not exactly a picture from a bus... heck, are there any buses still in existence??? Still, hopefully this will satisfy your curiosity. It is from the owners manual to a 1940 Ford Transit Bus. On the page opposite the illustration the text clearly states the temperature gauge is electric. Mike "Kube" Kubarth This message was edited by kubes40 on 9-13-13 @ 6:59 AM
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| Don Rogers | -- 09-13-2013 @ 8:38 AM |
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Interesting discussion. I went thru my bus literature and found a dash picture of a 41 rear engine bus. In 41 the ammeter is separate from the cluster and there is a battery gauge in the cluster instead. Earlier pictures of a 37 front engine bus shows a liguid temp gauge.
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| ford38v8 | -- 09-13-2013 @ 5:53 PM |
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Mike, your '40 owners manual picture looks to be right on the money, the only question being the oil pressure... Is it 80 like the gauge 37hump has, or 50 like your 39 standard? Alan
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| 37hump | -- 09-13-2013 @ 6:51 PM |
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what would we do without car friends, thanks so much for your thoughtfullness and time, you all have helped answer my question Tom
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| kubes40 | -- 09-14-2013 @ 8:37 AM |
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Hi Alan, I can't make out the manual's illustration to determine whether or not the gauge had a 50# or 80# marking. Sending units of the 80# type did not show up on passenger cars until the 1946 models. Apparently (??) they showed up earlier on the "big rigs". Perhaps someone with more knowledge of these vehicles may weigh in here. This has been a very interesting discussion in my opinion.
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