Slick 60's

Just wondering if anyone has ever tried to enlarge the 65-66 air vent holes to accomodate the older style pivoting doors. The reason I ask is that I think the knob and cables system on the older slicks is pretty cool and I would like to have that on my truck. I compared both styles and measured them and it looks like it should work. Is this a goofy idea? Perhaps the lack of sleep and approaching 3rd child are making me delirious

opinions?

If you are talking about the vents close to the floor I agree with you. Unless it was to cut costs in production I don't understand why they did away with them. I had to rebuild that area in my slick,my guess is that it probably would work. The only thing that may hinder you could be a wall in there dividing that area from top to bottom. plus as Greg said the heater hole. But you might could adapt the earlier heater into the 65-66 or just fabricate a new adapter to match the heater. Its been 2-3 years so I don't remember exactly how its made there. But if there was a wall divider inside all you would have to do probably is to fabricate a insert the curve of the new vent. Some of the other guys familiar with the 64 cabs and 65-66 cabs may be able to tell you exactly.

My 62 and 64 cabs did not have the vents connected to the heater. Which is probably a good thing, why bring cold air in, when you can keep running warm air thru the heater?

Seems to me that Garbz mentioned when he was doing the uni-crew that the crews for the triangle vent years used the older style heater and there was some kind of adapter hose required for that specialty item.

Sounds like you are doing the same thing in reverse. Don't those triangle shaped vents open?

I suppose I should clarify, I am talking about the vents on the side of the cab that are not connected to the heater. I just thought it would be cool (no pun intended) to add more options.

Now you have me confused, Mark. The right kick vent IS the one that hooks to the heater. Unless you leave the oval shaped connector hose off.

Johnny Canuck wrote:Now you have me confused, Mark. The right kick vent IS the one that hooks to the heater. Unless you leave the oval shaped connector hose off.

Not on a 66, the right looks the same as the left...unless I'm missing something.

On a '66 half ton, these are both the little triangle flipper doors. On my '66 1 ton there is a pull knob for a fixed vent for the driver's side and the triangle flip door for the passenger. Dunno about F250 or 2WD vs 4WD.

Doug

yeah, so on a 61-64 the (2)doors are oval instead of triangle..why won't the vent handles work? They obviously do on Doug's one ton..

His triangle flappers work fine.

He wants the cable operated doors from 61-64, because he thinks they are way cool.

And maybe he can bend over that far anymore to operate the flappers.

my 64 has those vents he is talking about. They work and seal. The do not however in anyway connect to the heater. Are they supposed to. I dont think so there is just no way to connect the two. Mike

I have never owned a twin I slick so I don't really know the difference, except that the twin I vents are in the same place and triangle shaped, compared to the 61-64s which are oval shaped.
The cheapie heater on a 61-64 does not have an oval sleeve to the passenger side vent, the deluxe heater does. The door is always open on the deluxe heater passengers side so there is no vent cable required unless you have the cheapie heater.

So what is the diff on the twin I trucks? thought the heater hose was just triangle shaped.

I've had 2 66's both had the vent pull knobs and cables with triangle doors. The cables were not connected to any thing, just ran up under the dash. Both were custom cab, i allways ask why it was done that way.

Lonnie

Lonnie -- you are saying that you had 2 66s with the cable pulls installed into the dash, but they were not attached to nothing?

F100 or F250? 4x4 or 4x2?

Or were they used to operate the triangular flapper, "remotely"?

My 65 has the triangular flappers on each side, plus a "fresh air heater" that draws air from the passenger side via a different hole. The duct is actually the same duct as used in the later 67-71 trucks I believe.

I have the oval butterfly doors in my 63. They leak terribly, but it's probably because I tried to fix them cheap with rubber innertubes instead of ordering new seals.

Has anybody successfully made new seals for it, or am I retarded for even trying to do so? haha.

cdherman wrote:Lonnie -- you are saying that you had 2 66s with the cable pulls installed into the dash, but they were not attached to nothing?

F100 or F250? 4x4 or 4x2?

Or were they used to operate the triangular flapper, "remotely"?

My 65 has the triangular flappers on each side, plus a "fresh air heater" that draws air from the passenger side via a different hole. The duct is actually the same duct as used in the later 67-71 trucks I believe.

CD its a f100 with no way to attach the cables to the triangular vents. Yep i have had 2 and didnt know why they were that way.

Lonnie

cdherman wrote:His triangle flappers work fine.

He wants the cable operated doors from 61-64, because he thinks they are way cool.

And maybe he can bend over that far anymore to operate the flappers.

Thank you, that's where I was starting from. By the sounds of things, I am more correct of I have the cables installed and not connected to anything

I will make some templates up and take some closer measurements, and BTW, I still can operate the triangle vents, LOL

I presume someone installed them on Lonnies truck just cause they looked good sticking out the dash?

Perhaps they had plans to make the trianguar flappers cable operated and then that plan never happened?

Interesting -- I too would kind of like the cable operated vents.

I did the kick panel vent swap in my '65 F-250, that originally had the triangle vents. What I did was remove the inside flange lip (the one that goes inside the kick panel). This minimized the cutting to the kick panel wall itself, which made me leery anyway. There were two small openings left sticking out the edge of the new vents from the different configuration triangle vents, but I just filled those in and they will be covered with kick panel carpet pieces matching the floor carpet. But they hooked up great, work fine, and I love 'em. For whatever reason, changing to the triangle vents wasn't the best choice in my opinion. It's doable though.

Norm