Correct Air Cleaner?

[nm3]

Trying to fix an few things on my 64-1/2 260 v8.

I put on the pipe that goes from the right side exhast manifold to the snorkle on the air cleaner. However they don't line up. I'm guessing the air cleaner is not the right one for the car or the top and bottom needs to be reclocked to align the pipe. Any thoughts?

 

[ponyboy289]

Hey,
I will research it further later (busy day) But it does look like you have the wrong air cleaner. That is an earlier style that was common on tons of Fords with 260's and 289's (falcons,fairlanes,comets,etc.) 64 1/2 was funny though. Out of curiosity what was your scheduled build date (door tag) ? Out of curiousity was that tube already on the car or did you add it?

 

[nm3]

Tube was not on the car. I talked with a guy at Mustangs Unlimited and said it should be on the car. So I bought it. I also assumed it should be. Why would that style snorkel be on the car, without it being fed warm air?

The right side manifold did have the stud for the tube. Which was in terrible shape. Broke it trying to get it off. Had to pull the manifold to re tap that hole and drill out the choke tubes.

Whatever resource you have can you check to see what the correct color paint it should be as well? Thanks.

Build date was May 13, 1964.

 

[mabcim]

That does seem odd that they don't line up. I'm assuming you can't spin the air cleaner around to line up?
I have a 64 Comet and Falcon Shop Manual. You air cleaner matches the engine drawing in there. What is hard to tell is if the snorkel is proper or not. It almost looks like it is too long, but hard to tell.
Hopefully, this will work, I'm attaching pictures from that manual.

 

[nm3]

As far as I can tell the main blue portion of the air cleaner case is one piece (2 pieces crimped together). I honestly haven't tried to separate it. There are slots/cuts/notches in the base that "fit" on features of the carburetor that align it.

 

[ponyboy289]

Hey Nm,
Unfortunately that is definitely not considered to be a correct aircleaner for your car. The style you have would have been used on 1963-1964,etc. Fairlanes,comets,etc.It is a 14", The correct style for your car would be the larger 17" diameter lower clearance (for the sake of hood clearance). Your snorkel does look as though it would work on the correct air cleaner but you'd have to measure the distance between the mounting holes. This picture shows the correct air cleaner .Something I've noticed time and time again with the shop manual illustrations ,is that very often they tend to be a bit generic. For instance they might show a shifter from Fairlane and say that it's what they all basically look like , so it's a shifter.But it's different than one for a Mustang.That looks like the case with the shop manual air cleaner drawing. I hope this photo helps.

 

[nm3]

I found this website this morning, which confirms what you are saying as well. Thanks again for your help.

64½ vs. 65 Mustang Legends

Nick

 

[ponyboy289]

Hey Nick,
It's my pleasure to assist you,I'm a big time 64-66 Geek so I'm always up for a little chat about these cars.That said A book that I highly recommend for engine details and differences is : Mustang & Ford Small Block V8, 1962-1969 It only deals with Ford small blocks from the 60's but it is really indepth,I've talked with the author a few times over the years he's a very knowledgeable guy. Too bad we live far apart I'd let you borrow my copy,You'd get a kick out of it.

 

[mabcim]

Sorry the shop manual pictures didn't help. The Mustang engine assembly manual I have didn't have a picture, so it was the closest I had.
I have the same air cleaner as ponyboy showed, but I have a 289; I don't know toos much about the 260.