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What color is the hot water heater for a 40 Ford suppose to be?Does it also have pin stripes on it?If so can you purchase these stripes any where?
 
Here's mine. I used 1/8" modeler's striping tape for the stripes.

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40ford said:
What color is the hot water heater for a 40 Ford suppose to be?Does it also have pin stripes on it?If so can you purchase these stripes any where?
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[FONT=&quot]The front of the sheet metal housing contained two doors, one on each side of a vertical set of louvers. Clips held a vertical stainless strip on each side of the louvers.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The exterior metal parts were painted light gray. The sheet metal housing had three red horizontal stripes on its two sides. These stripes were approximately 1/8" wide and spaced approximately 5/16" apart. [/FONT]
I have the stripes available for $5, postage paid. They are the correct width, color and are applied in one piece so as to assure proper spacing.
 
Just as a curiosity, were the Std and Delux heaters the same? My std, although not stock, has the correct 40 heater but without the 2 chrome strips. Perhaps the heater was/is like the dash chrome strip wise std vs deluxe?
 
TomT/Williamsburg said:
Just as a curiosity, were the Std and Delux heaters the same? My std, although not stock, has the correct 40 heater but without the 2 chrome strips. Perhaps the heater was/is like the dash chrome strip wise std vs deluxe?
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It was a dealer-installed option, and so far as I know there was only one model offered. The heater pictured above is in my '40 Standard.
 
4dFord/SC said:
It was a dealer-installed option, and so far as I know there was only one model offered. The heater pictured above is in my '40 Standard.
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4dford is correct in that only one hot water heater was installed in 1940 Fords. It should have two vertical stainless strips.
 
Kube said:
4dford is correct in that only one hot water heater was installed in 1940 Fords. It should have two vertical stainless strips.
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I repainted mine the color of the dash.
 

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How is the switch mounted to the dash for 40 heater? Do they make a new knob for the defroster control?
 
40ford said:
How is the switch mounted to the dash for 40 heater? Do they make a new knob for the defroster control?
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It mounts through a hole in the underlip of the dash panel under the right side of the instrument cluster. Larry Caplan has the correct knob:
Larry Caplan
19041 Clymer St.
Northbridge, CA 91326
(818) 3668-9178
lccaplan2@yahoo.com
 
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