'39 Standard hood latch

[Cleveland39]

Does anyone have an assembly diagram of the hood latch assembly for a '39 Standard tudor? Also, what size are the hinge to hood bolts (with shoulders)?

Thanks.

 

[Karl Wescott]

Basically, the latch consisted of a cam that attached to the shaft of the hood handle. The cam indexed into a slotted dowel mounted to the grille. There were some other gizmo's like a centering spring strip that indexed to the cam, and a loading spring on the handle. Attached is a sketch from Ford's 1938-41 chassis parts catalog.

IIRC, the hood hinge bolts are 1/4-28 drilled for safety wire. They do not have a shoulder, the bearing is the exterior of an internally threaded sleeve welded to the structure of the hood. For some reason the 1941-48 (shouldered) hood hinge bolts got labeled 1937-48 in the reproduction parts supply chain.

 

[Cleveland39]

Thank you Karl. Is there any way to improve the resolution of the drawing? I need to enlarge it, but it becomes to fuzzy to read when I do.

Thanks,
Ron

 

[petehoovie]

Try this one...

 

[Cleveland39]

Thank you Pete!