I have the chance to pull some stuff off of a 46-48 Lincoln parts car and I'm wondering what to get. Pretty sure it's got 4 matching wheels so I likely will take those, and I've heard guys using the Lincoln brakes but I'm confused, do I only want the backing plates, or do I want the drums and hubs too? I assume I'll need to pull the rear hubs? (Might not be possible but I'll try, my puller is kinda shit). Are the 46-48 front brakes any good, or is it 41 fronts only? Anything else I should look for? Front sheetmetal was cut off, no engine or trans, no steering wheel. Guidance would be greatly appreciated, I'll post pics tomorrow of what I end up getting if anyone wants to see.
I’d be interested in the medallion on the trunk lid and on the grill center bar. Also the sun visors and attaching mount, doesn’t matter if the visors themselves are rotten, I need the arms and mounts. I’m not sure on the rears, but the front brakes are 12”. I’d get the hubs, drums, and backing plates with shoes and hardware.
Definitely the transmission. It would have the gears that everyone wants. Get all the brake parts too. It all has value. You should get the wheels as well as guys look for them.
As stated above, there's no engine or trans or steering wheel left on the car. Also the front end sheetmetal with grille and bumper was cut off. It does not have the pushbutton outside door handles (at least, not anymore). I'll take a look for the trunk emblem although I think that's already missing, and the inside sun visors (good chance there's something of those left). Going to for-sure get the wheels and I'll try to get the brakes although my hub puller is shit so I don't know how well the rears are going to come off, they do not allow torches. Really can't save the whole thing, it's not free and I don't think I'd be allowed to buy it whole anyway, it's a 4 door if I haven't mentioned. But I'm going to try to save what I can.
Definitely the brakes, they are not the most desired ones but they will find themselves a home one day. I do believe they will have the deep recess, but I sold some to a guy on here that says they can be used on '35 or '36 spindles. Hopefully your puller interfaces the rear drums correctly or you will either break the tool or the drum trying to get it loose.
The front brakes have a deep recess but you can make a spacer and run them, the rear backing plates don’t and can be run on the front too if so desired just fill the emergency brake hole. get all the push buttons on the doors!
Was a big job, I earned my dinner tonight, but I did well. This is the car I pulled from. As you can see, someone cut the nose and tail off, pulled the engine and trans, and also took the steering wheel and dash. But it was up on wheels yet and the wheels even turned. Someone was saving this car to restore and whoever bought it only wanted to cut it up.
Pretty cozy on the driver's side for working, but on the plus side, the cut off front and rear sections gave me a lot more clearance, I didn't have to climb under nearly as far. I also wanted some stuff off of this '65 Tempest. Unfortunately someone had hacked a chunk out of the grille I wanted, and I thought it was a hardtop but it was a sedan.
Here's my haul after the end of a very long day. The shitty eBay hub puller I bought and bent into a V trying to get the rear hub off of my roadster worked great on these big Lincoln brakes, go figure. I took everything, even the parking brake hardware and front bearings. Drums are clean enough to use them as-is, they're not even rusty on the brake surfaces. If the shoes weren't all oil soaked, they'd be good too. Plates are not rusty or bent. I believe these are the really good rears and the mid-depth fronts that can be used but need a spacer. I'm hoping to use these on my '34 Ford project some day. I had to pay extra for the 4 tires which are all junk and I did not want, but they didn't have anyone to dismount them. The 4 rims are really clean though and all match so I figure it was worth it. The Tempest had some trim bits for my own '65 project and had a really clean Edelbrock 4 barrel carb just laying under the hood, it even still had gas in it. No idea where that came from, the engine in the car was a 1 bbl 6 cylinder. The choke is missing so I'll have to find one but otherwise it looks very usable. Also scored some aluminum pieces to fix the old camper shell on my upcoming shop truck project. My arms are sore and the parts weren't exactly cheap but overall I'm super pleased with the day.
Great score. Now I could be wrong, and I can't tell from the pics how deep the recess is on those front backing plates, but if they truly are the "mid-depth" plates, I think those can be used with 42-48 spindles. Some grinding, but no spacer.
That would be really good if that is true. I was trying to research these last night before the junkyard run to make sure this was worthwhile and there's not a whole lot of info out there on these, and some is conflicting. I assume since there just aren't a lot of these around, so not a ton of experience using them. I'm just glad to have it all home safe. I didn't want to abandon anything, and I'd hate to see this stuffed into a crusher.
I used these on my roadster, I even adapted the back to my olds rear just machined a spacer for the through hole and re drilled the bolt pattern. I think the spacers are like 1/2” or something. It’s all posted in my build tread adapted using 48 hubs and 59 drums. Backing plates are 46-8. I don’t recall them being different although the Lincoln spindles and hubs are not interchangeable with the ford parts the spacing is different. Axle is thicker too I think. Awesome Score!
I scored a '46 Lincoln speedo and clock for our '46 Ford dash. Slight bit of bezel bore increase and custom retainers but much sexier looking gauges ..... the speedo has turn signal arrows too.
I'll definitely be checking that out, excellent info. That's definitely what happened, this car came in with a few other cars that also had the noses and tails cut off, including a '57 Chevy station wagon. I didn't see the other cars in the yard yesterday, they might have gotten crushed right away. Glad this Lincoln was still there, didn't want to risk leaving it. Some stuff seems to get crushed and others have been there a really long time, not sure what the rhyme or reason is to what they save.
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