My '63 had the same condensor. Mine wasn't connected to
anything either so I took it out. It now resides in the bottom of the
glove compartment. I have a '62 which has a similar dash arrangement, but it
had no condensor. I have had friends with 1961 models that haven't found
that part either. I have only seen and heard of it in '63. Others here
have run into the same thing. I believe that Eric Ruud determined what it was
for and posted it in the archives of the OIC. As you say, it might have been
for the radio. The dash lights can interfer with it at night, which is the
time when AM radio stations turn down their signal, at least they used to.
Since the lights are on at night, and the radio volume needs to be higher for
some stations, I think the noise was noticible in some areas. Only a guess.
Nothing has changed after I removed that condensor. The radio plays fine, the
gauges and dash lights work fine, and the clock works fine also.
I recently had to change the power pack in my '63 also. 1963 is the first
year for the automatic parking brake release. The vacuum canister is very much
in the way of removing the old power pack. I determined that removing the
brake release posed more of a possibility for ruining something, so I left the
old power pack in place and installed the new one under the dash where I could
get to it. That would bother some folks I guess, but when I saw how they
had positioned that vacuum canister, I decided that if it gives trouble, that
is when I will take it all apart and replace the power pack in the correct
spot, if I ever feel the need to do so.
Those power packs go out, so I think that having it in an easy to reach
spot is a pretty good idea. All you really have to do is ground the
housing, hook up the power and the out put leads, and everything will
work fine. You can really put it anyplace out of sight that you wish.
Remember, the gauge cluster also has to be installed, or at least grounded, to
test the system once you are ready to see if the power pack fixed the
problem.
Paul W.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan LundstrÃm
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Sent: Mon, 29 May 2006 22:18:55
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Subject: IML: Condensator and vacuum menbram???
Hi!!!
I own a
1963 convertible and i need some advice...
I removed the speedometer
today to get access to the powerpack which is fried...
Behind one of
the nuts that keep the clock in place, there was a small condensator with a
black cable, the condensator was not connected to anything....
Does
anyone know what this is for???
I cant find any place to connect it
to, my guess is that its for the radio but im not sure...
I also
wonder how to remove the vacuum membran that is connected to the parking brake
release???
It looks like its welded in place, do i need to remove the
whole parking brake unit or is it possible to just remove the vacuum
unit???
Thanks
Jannelu
Sweden
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