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Early GT500 Breathers
« on: February 12, 2018, 03:57:50 PM »
What are the correct breathers for the oil fill tube and valve cover for a early 67 GT500 #185 finished at SA 01/04/1967 ? Shape, Script or non script ? The valve cover is a twist in.  Please post photos if you have them. Thank You Rick
« Last Edit: February 12, 2018, 04:31:51 PM by motorhead428 »

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Re: motorhead428
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2018, 04:31:31 PM »
What are the correct breathers for the oil fill tube and valve cover for a early 67 GT500 #185 finished at SA 01/04/1967 ? Shape, Script or non script ? The valve cover is a twist in.  Please post photos if you have them. Thank You Rick
Assuming a non thermactor engine the valve cover cap is going to be the larger flat top twist on round breather cap with a FOMOCO in the script inside a oval. The oil filler cap looks the same but smaller diameter and it is push on. The assemblyline cap will have a long neck that goes in the oil filler tube. The repros do not.  Chrome finish is the most typical. 
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Re: Early GT500 Breathers
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2018, 04:34:27 PM »
Non Thermactor is the way my car was produced.

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« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2018, 04:46:51 PM »
What are the correct breathers for the oil fill tube and valve cover for a early 67 GT500 #185 finished at SA 01/04/1967 ? Shape, Script or non script ? The valve cover is a twist in.  Please post photos if you have them. Thank You Rick
Assuming a non thermactor engine the valve cover cap is going to be the larger flat top twist on round breather cap with a FOMOCO in the script inside a oval. The oil filler cap looks the same but smaller diameter and it is push on. The assemblyline cap will have a long neck that goes in the oil filler tube. The repros do not.  Chrome finish is the most typical.
The picture I posted should be the way your engine should look . The small cap is approximately 2 7/16 wide . Sorry I can't post more pictures of caps . My pictures which posted fine before are all too large a file now apparently from the error page I keep getting. I will let someone else post .
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« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2018, 04:51:11 PM »
What are the correct breathers for the oil fill tube and valve cover for a early 67 GT500 #185 finished at SA 01/04/1967 ? Shape, Script or non script ? The valve cover is a twist in.  Please post photos if you have them. Thank You Rick
Assuming a non thermactor engine the valve cover cap is going to be the larger flat top twist on round breather cap with a FOMOCO in the script inside a oval. The oil filler cap looks the same but smaller diameter and it is push on. The assemblyline cap will have a long neck that goes in the oil filler tube. The repros do not.  Chrome finish is the most typical.
The picture I posted should be the way your engine should look . The small cap is approximately 2 7/16 wide . Sorry I can't post more pictures of caps . My pictures which posted fine before are all too large a file now apparently from the error page I keep getting. I will let someone else post .
For those reading earlier car only on the cap trademarks. Probably Feb 67 was when the change over to Autolite started to happen.
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Re: Early GT500 Breathers
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2018, 07:21:12 PM »
Thank You, Bob.

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« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2018, 07:40:19 PM »
What are the correct breathers for the oil fill tube and valve cover for a early 67 GT500 #185 finished at SA 01/04/1967 ? Shape, Script or non script ? The valve cover is a twist in.  Please post photos if you have them. Thank You Rick
Assuming a non thermactor engine the valve cover cap is going to be the larger flat top twist on round breather cap with a FOMOCO in the script inside a oval. The oil filler cap looks the same but smaller diameter and it is push on. The assemblyline cap will have a long neck that goes in the oil filler tube. The repros do not.  Chrome finish is the most typical.
The picture I posted should be the way your engine should look . The small cap is approximately 2 7/16 wide . Sorry I can't post more pictures of caps . My pictures which posted fine before are all too large a file now apparently from the error page I keep getting. I will let someone else post .

Really? What about the staples? I never saw them evenly spaced like that? Was there a little hanky panky done on those? Those look nice. Original looks like crap.
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« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2018, 09:26:35 PM »
Really? What about the staples? I never saw them evenly spaced like that? Was there a little hanky panky done on those? Those look nice. Original looks like crap.

Off topic, but about half the number of staples of my earlier car.
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