1955 heater Control Panel

[kevinrcase]

Hi I am new to this site. On my 55 T-bird the heater control panel seems to be a puzzle I cannot fix nor does the shop manual helo. The steel enclosure housing with the 2 left/right movement knobs had left & right tabs that are intended to swing away from the box to hold the assembly on the dash with screws. This would require that the opposite force be a well secured chrome front bezzel be secured to this inside box. the chrome faceplate has 4 protrusions that fit through the 4 corner holes of the box but they are not threaded to allow it to be secured to the box. I have found previous owners used sillicone, tap etc without sucsess and just left it hang loose. This attachment has to be ridgid one. Am I missing something simple? :banghead

 

[paul2748]

The four protrusions have to be peened to hold the box. Repro faceplates are available in case you break the faceplate peening the protrusions. Use something that it bigger than the protrusions in order to spread them and bang that with a hammer.

Hi I am new to this site. On my 55 T-bird the heater control panel seems to be a puzzle I cannot fix nor does the shop manual helo. The steel enclosure housing with the 2 left/right movement knobs had left & right tabs that are intended to swing away from the box to hold the assembly on the dash with screws. This would require that the opposite force be a well secured chrome front bezzel be secured to this inside box. the chrome faceplate has 4 protrusions that fit through the 4 corner holes of the box but they are not threaded to allow it to be secured to the box. I have found previous owners used sillicone, tap etc without sucsess and just left it hang loose. This attachment has to be ridgid one. Am I missing something simple? :banghead

 

[kevinrcase]

I wonder if there are peened clips specificly for this job. I did not see this in either of two catalogs I got. I did not think that they simply get fit in with the "Ford-o-matic precision fitting tool" .
:driving
Uhh - short for a hammer.

 

[paul2748]

My original had the "studs" peened. I had to replace the faceplate so I peened over the studs on the new one. Never heard of or saw any thing else.