Re: Henry's 55 Constellation

Posted by Cli55er On 2016/7/26 22:18:51

i'll be honest, I have no idea what this thing looks like installed with all the wiring. I didn't take good pics of any of that back in the day.

my car is a very early car...march...so parts of my pad could have been different then 55 cars in later months for all I know.

I plan to put in a kwikwire 14 circuit universal harness and all of the parts are off my firewall, so installation wont be an issue for me. cutting those spots out could be done by the end user if they didn't want to take the wiring off, so that is an option. the cutouts on the 56 pad would work fine on the 55, but I guess if you are after exact repo, then you wouldn't want them cut out.

the vender actually requested that I tell them what holes I need and don't need in the current pad they make, so this may indicate willingness to accommodate both 55 and 56 once I tell them what we have been talking about here. some of the holes are completely the wrong diameter as well.

as for the brake bracket cut out. I think the best thing would be to remove the two slots from the 56, which they are willing to do, and just cut your own hole for the 55 once you get it in and use your bracket to measure the cutout. basically cause I cannot give them exact measurements since my original pad is pretty garbled in that area.

there are some holes on my original pad that are knocks outs that are still intact. a couple of them are the ones I Xed out on the schematic. I'm not sure if they can do cutouts, but i'll ask.

I see the heater valve bolt holes, but is that large hole to the right of the vent opening, above the top heater valve bolt hole there on all of the pads....what is that large hole for? where I wrote "don't know" on the right side above the heater valve opening....the bigger hole...what is that for?

what size do you think the push pins are that hold the pad on? 5/16"?? I'm planning on modern plastic Christmas tree push pins, but I'm not sure the size.

Thanks for the input HH, if you think of anything else please post.