Radiator cap

[Greg]

Does anyone have a picture of the proper assembly line radiator cap for a 65 or 66 GT350?

Thanks...

[Brant]

Does anyone have a picture of the proper assembly line radiator cap for a 65 or 66 GT350?

Thanks...

The reproductions that we have are spot on.

[Greg]

Thank you Brant!

[Bob Gaines]

Some but not all of the originals have the pound rating turned in a different direction which is one way to tell a repro from genuine .

[Greg]

Is this one a repop?

[CharlesTurner]

Is this one a repop?

Believe that one was being sold as NOS on ebay?  If so, looks like an earlier part or possibly a generic Ford replacement/service part.  Wouldn't be correct for 65-66.

[gt350hr]

   +1 ,
      I have had numerous NOS 65-66 radiator caps over the years and the "San Jose" version is like the one in Brant's picture. Stant Manufacturing did them and the whole cap was "industrial" chrome plated.
   Randy

[maxjets]

This is on 6S135.

[gt350hr]

Is this one a repop?

    Dearborn or Metuchen because of the non chrome plated rivet. Well IMHO anyway, Bob , Charles or Jeff might feel differently.

[Dan Case]

I have only two chrome plated cap data points. The original cap I removed from SFM5S142 early in 1980 (leaked slowly) and a new old stock cap from a "COBRA" dress up kit. The surface texture of the  cap from SFM5S142 is rougher than the cap from the accessory parts channel.



Just as a different data point, this is an original cap still in use on an excellent unrestored Cobra. This Cobra was completed in 1963. This cap model was used in Cobras with Ford-McCord coolant expansion tanks from about CSX2141 onward 1963-1965. Caps exactly like this, original ones, have been much tougher to hunt down for me than the chrome plate model.

[Bob Gaines]

I see the pressure  number reversed from one compared the other. If both are known originals as you say then that pressure number orientation may indicate it was randomly stamped given they are both from the same MFG.

[Special Ed]

The s m co   pat# is clocked differently also in dans pic.

[Jbarela]

interesting to see the variation. My NOS cap is has the writing clocked like Dans original but the 14 is oriented like the one from the cobra kit, but clearly the font for the 14 and the smco matches Dans original.

[DRGT350]

this one is going on 5s296 - was represented as original assembly line cap...

Dave

[Bob Gaines]

Here is a picture of a repro that Mart offers from his website for comparison.