Ford junction blocks

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Tony Wheeler

Something similar is available for T-Model Ford, so it may be possible to rebuild the Ford CMP part using these

Having checked the price on these at $20 each plus shipping it's hardly a solution. Ideally we need some hard rubber strip in the appropriate size, so we can churn these parts out dirt cheap. I'll check with a few industrial rubber supply joints when they reopen next week. I'm pretty sure they'll have something suitably hard in the correct thickness, even if only in sheet form, which we can cut to size. The original strip is invariably rock hard and crumbly after 70 years but it was obviously somewhat flexible when new, as evidenced by the outward bow when fitted. I believe this was intentional, to prevent possible inward deflection causing earthing on bodywork. In other words the hole centres were designed slightly overlength to create an outward bow. It's this kind of detail which makes the Chev part look completely wrong on a Ford.