Re: '55 Patrician with Carter Carb, Houston TX
Posted by HH56 On 2016/4/27 13:07:45
The car doesn't look too bad. Just do a bit more cleanup and it will be quite presentable. The fuel pump does have the vacuum portion on top but it may not be working and the reason for the bypass. Kits are available if you want to pursue making it functional. It would be plumbed as the cars with vacuum wipers were done before 55. Source would be intake manifold with a metal tubing going to the outlet side of pump. Inlet side of pump would go to the wiper motor via metal tubing and a short length of hose the final few inches. That way the intake manifold is the main source of vacuum and just pulls thru the pump. If the engine is under load or throttle wide open and engine vacuum diminishes, the valves in pump then become operational and pump provides enough vacuum to keep the wipers moving. Washer would have to use a tee off the hose just before motor since its normal source on the balance valve is no longer present. I can't quite enlarge the photo enough to see clearly but the wiper motor doesn't look like it has a small 1/8 nipple for a hose connection midway down the front. That hose and another off a small tee on the main hose to provide vacuum would go to the wiper switch for the arc control function. If it doesn't have the nipple it may be an earlier motor..
Brakes should have a cylindrical check valve coming off the intake manifold. That feeds the hose going over toward the power brake unit. A tee drops a short length of hose almost straight down to the fitting on power unit and other leg continues the hose over to the canister. The wipers would come off that same port before the brake check valve and may be where the extra tubing is located. Some cars have a separate vacuum port in the base of carb rather than in the manifold which is used for brakes and wipers. Don't remember what Carters have.
The 56 TL solenoids were mounted under the L fender right next to the brake vacuum canister so if you relocated them it would look more appropriate but that is minor details. Just make sure the limit switch is still being used and they just removed the solenoids from the bracket, connected wires onto the limit switch buss bar terminals and brought the wires out to the solenoids. Here is what the normal 55 arrangement would have been. 56 compensators have two small individual limit switches that thread into the bottom housing of the compensator and no large bracket.
Here are a couple of photos Stewart provided for the 55 TL and a poor photo showing the 56 solenoid location. The solenoids are buried and barely visible within the green boxed area.
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Brakes should have a cylindrical check valve coming off the intake manifold. That feeds the hose going over toward the power brake unit. A tee drops a short length of hose almost straight down to the fitting on power unit and other leg continues the hose over to the canister. The wipers would come off that same port before the brake check valve and may be where the extra tubing is located. Some cars have a separate vacuum port in the base of carb rather than in the manifold which is used for brakes and wipers. Don't remember what Carters have.
The 56 TL solenoids were mounted under the L fender right next to the brake vacuum canister so if you relocated them it would look more appropriate but that is minor details. Just make sure the limit switch is still being used and they just removed the solenoids from the bracket, connected wires onto the limit switch buss bar terminals and brought the wires out to the solenoids. Here is what the normal 55 arrangement would have been. 56 compensators have two small individual limit switches that thread into the bottom housing of the compensator and no large bracket.
Here are a couple of photos Stewart provided for the 55 TL and a poor photo showing the 56 solenoid location. The solenoids are buried and barely visible within the green boxed area.
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