[fjd]

Hi gang: First a big thanks to Veronica and others for the solution to the gauge problem. Here is an other ID for her data base: 6F07C130929, 65A K 22 07K 45 6 1. So the engine is a 289 2v, the air cleaner says 289 on it and is blue with the snorkel and right angle connection that goes to a heat riser coming off the exhaust manifold but it looks like the old thick style "oil bath" cleaner. I don't believe this to be original. The question then is what is the original air cleaner and can the heat riser be removed without affecting anything. Thanks everyone and great forum.

[Veronica]

Hello. Thanks for car. Your breather should look like this, except for being a darker blue, and your snorkel should also be blue. This car is a 64 1/2, hence the black snorkel. The heat riser can be (,and often is) eliminated without hurting the way the car runs. If you live somewhere that gets really cold, it would take the carb a little longer to warm up. Hope that helps.

[fjd]

Your welcome Veronica and big thanks for the answer and pic. Yep that sure does it. What a great group this is!

[Petit Poney]

Hi Veronica, thanks for the picture, but one question, how can a 64 1/2 Mustang have a blue air cleaner box ? I thought that it has to be gold as the valves covers !!!!
Thanks for your expertise.

[Veronica]

Hi again. The plan by Ford was to have each of the motors be it's own little color scheme, for some reason. Which, I think is kind of cool, but, you don't see that kind of stuff coming from Ford very often. The 170s were that funky looking reddish orange, the V8s all had the black block, intake and snorkel, but the 260s had the blue valve covers and breather, while the 289s had the gold. But, that all went out the window when Ford realized that they were selling the cars quicker than they could build them, and they could build them pretty quickly. So, at the begining of the regular 65 model year, they went with everything being the same. Hope that helps.

[Veronica]

Hi again. Just a quick follow up on that last post. The breather assembly in the picture that I posted earlier is actually the breather for a 289. The car has a 260, so it's painted that way, and some of the 260s did in fact get that breather assembly, but a lot more of them got the one like I have on my car. As far as I can tell it's the original breather assembly for my car. It had this breather when it got parked in the barn back in the mid 70s, the date codes on it, the snorkel and the heat riser are exactly what one would expect them to be for a car with the production date that mine had, and the car still has the original carburetor, so, I'm thinking that it's original. There's no way to prove that conclusively, but, there's no way to regute it either, so that's what I'm going to go with.