engine splash pans?

I know they used them in '42 & '36 as well and suspect that they were used right through to '48 at least.
 
So far looks like they were used. Were they an option or standard equipment & how many of your cars have them installed?
 
My 40 Ford coupe came with them 01A-6775 and 01A-6776. The BIG GREEN BOOK shows them available for 1933 through 1948.
 
I have a full set for the '42 Sedan Delivery for the one day when I get it finnished - if ever :)
 
The driver side ones are a bit different from 37 engine pans. Carpenter used to have numerous NOS ones...perhaps they still do. They had a lot of 35/6 ones the last time I was there and also had some later ones.
 
The reason you do not see all cars with splash pans are they are a pain in the @#$*& when changing the starter and exhaust and were not put back on after changing those parts.
 
I second Joe's opinion! My neighbor and mentor was a Ford Mechanic from the 1920's into the 1980's, he lived to be almost 93, he would not let me put on the pans on my 39 Woodie. He said that they were such a problem for service technicians that they would remove them and destroy them so they could not be reinstalled. I still have mine here somewhere but haven't seen them in years. My opinion... don't use them. Toby Lampert
 
Not a great picture.... but.... my '39 Sedan Delivery still has them on... you can see all the junk they've collected!
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I would venture the guess that the majority of '32-48 Ford, and other brands, do not have engine splash pans, and for that matter many do not have the splash pans under the radiator either... All of the cars/trucks of that era came with pans from the factory.
As it has already been mentioned.. It was very common for "mechanics" to remove the pans during the course of service work, discarding them so they did not have to reinstall the pans...
On the unimproved dirt roads that were so common up through the 1950's, the splash pans were a must, especially on the Fords with their low front mounted distributors.. One good puddle and the vehicle was done because of a wet ignition...
My dad always carried a can of white gas in the trunk of the car for use in a Coleman lantern/stove and to pore into the distributor when water splashed up and drowned it out.
My '36 coupe still has the splash pan on the right side, however, I did not put the left pan back on when I upgraded the steering gears to '40's... I put the pan away into a box that I keep on the shelf with my other spare parts.
 
blucar said:
I would venture the guess that the majority of '32-48 Ford, and other brands, do not have engine splash pans, and for that matter many do not have the splash pans under the radiator either...
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I'll agree that most were removed at some point for exhaust pipe replacement, but there would have been few reasons to remove the radiator splash pan, and one good reason to replace it if it had been removed: Without that pan, air flow through the radiator would be diminished greatly.
 
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