Installation of a visor -over windshield

[48Windsor]

A brand new Fulton visor came with my car . I love visors ,just have been too scared to put it on for fear of doing wrong .
So what I need is to hear from someone who has put one on . Do"s and donts
Thank you

[Ray Bell]

First rule...

Have someone help you. You can't do it without a second pair of hands.

Perhaps do a trial installation using cloth under the clips so you don't damage your gutter as you look for the right height for installation.

[whtbaron]

My 52 parts car has one on it that I believe is original... would pics of the brackets help?

[48Windsor]

Raybell and Whtbaron,thank you for the advice. Im glad i asked now !
Whtbaron , yes I would find a picture helpful .

[John Kunkel]

Installation instructions:

http://www.indfloorcoating-repair.co...nsunshield.htm

[Ray Bell]

That's a pretty flash setup!

No wonder you want to fit it...

[whtbaron]

I couldn't go to the field today because we got snow last nite...yes, I said SNOW! Real test of the wheat will be the next 2 nights with lows forecast at -6C ....that's 6 degrees of frost in May. Good news is I had time to take some pics. As Ray said, it would be a good time to have a couple buddies over for a beer so they can hold it up while you play "wife" and say, " ...a little to the left..."
Installation looks pretty basic with 3 clamps, which appear to be as high on the straight channel of the drip rail as you can go. I remember my Dad liking that visor, but if you go too low it blocks traffic lights as well. Looks like stove bolts with the finished side to the outside on the sides, and a simple adjustable bracket in the center.

[whtbaron]

...couple more....and more snow. Forecast is for colder temps tonight at -6C so I'm hoping the wheat pulls through it ok...

[John Kunkel]

Originally Posted by whtbaron

I remember my Dad liking that visor, but if you go too low it blocks traffic lights as well.

Not to worry, just add one of these traffic light viewers and complete the "old school" look.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/4007987...lpid=82&chn=ps

[48Windsor]

I want to Thank you all for the help,in way of pictures and instructions.This is greatly appreciated.
I have heard that visors can make seeing traffic lights difficult . That has not deterred me . I like the way they look .

[whtbaron]

Depending on how tall you are, that really isn't a big issue since those early cars had quite high roof lines. Mostly you'll just find yourself stopping a little sooner before the stop line, which isn't a bad thing for the semi's trying to get around the corner anyway. They really are effective for sun glare, probably more so than tinted windows. Just don't get into the throttle too hard when you're leaving those lights...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=40&v=099douUPsOE

[48Windsor]

Whtbaron, Im 6ft tall but not to worry .Appreciate a positive thought about them , havent heard toomuch of that
Laughs , its a flathead six dont think gettin on throttle will be a problem . I may not get there fast but instyle

[chirorod]

It's like what they used to say about the 50's Buick dynaflow. When the light turned green, you could light a cigarette, floor the throttle and have the cigarette smoked all the way down by the time you cleared the intersection. The exception was the Century, if you started in low.

[whtbaron]

When I was 15 I raced a 54 Ford flatty up the side of the highway ditch with my 52 Plymouth 218. lol... I won because I had snow tires on and he spun out in the grass!

[chirorod]

I think the 54 ford was the first year of the ohv engine, which was basically the old block with valve- in- head heads.

[whtbaron]

Could have been an earlier shoebox then...maybe a 52 or 53... but I do know it was a flathead. One of those "Don't try this at home, kids." moments.

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by chirorod
I think the 54 ford was the first year of the ohv engine, which was basically the old block with valve- in- head heads.

I found it very surprising to see you write this...

I guess it's easy to think that the 239ci displacement for both the last of the flatheads and the first of the ohv V8s by Furd. However, the Y-block 239 had a bore and stroke of 3.5" x 3.1", oversquare, something the flathead couldn't dream to be.

There was a valve-in-head option for the flathead V8s, but the only car manufacturer to make them was Chrysler's South American operation when the took the Simca Vedette tooling down there and went into production with the Esplanada. Of course, they had to pay for the rights to that conversion to some guy who had something to do with Corvettes...

[whtbaron]

Ah yes, the Duntov heads were popular with early racers and hot rodders, but I think the Ardun versions were probably more abundant on this side of the pond. I never actually saw a real set up here, but I've read about them lots. I believe someone actually retooled a new version of the flathead/Ardun style hemi heads in an all aluminum version for high dollar rodders in the last few years.

[Ray Bell]

The Ardun head is the one, Duntov was a part of his name and if there were heads made under the Duntov name they were the same things...

What I've found out, to my surprise, while having a bit of a browse about them is the extremely low number made 'in the day'. Maybe 275 sets, they say, with only a dozen or so of the V8/60 kits.

This means that the first day or two of production in South America saw Chrysler make more of them than had ever been made before!

[chirorod]

I stand corrected on the 54 block then. I was speaking only from the scuttlebutt that circulated back in the 50's and 60's. The gentleman who sparked the corvette and designed the ardun heads was Zora Arkus-Duntov. Those heads did quite a wake-up number on the lunkheads.

[whtbaron]

Ah yes, my history could be rusty as well... but it seems to me something was marketed with the Duntov name on it. Maybe a cam or a manifold? LOL... apparently we're not Ford experts!

[John Kunkel]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Arkus-Duntov