Golden Fin Society - http://clubs.hemmings.com/goldenfin/ _____ ListBot Sponsor Build a marketing database and send targeted HTML and text e-mail newsletters to your customers with List Builder. http://www.listbuilder.com _____ OK, I found the answer to my question in the 55-56 Canadian Mopar Shop Manual. The '56 Fury with power brakes and automatic transmission used the "new" bellows type booster otherwise only used on C70-C73 Chryslers. This required a special brake pedal swing arm extension (trigger arm) that triggered and received boost pedal force. The leftward bends in the brake pedal swing arm and some of the trigger structures would interfere with the swing of the clutch pedal. So, all '56 Plymouths with power brakes and manual shift used the older type power brake unit from '55 Mopars in which the master cylinder was mounted on the front of the shell-type booster unit. That way, the brake pedal swing arm could be the same as used in the non-power brakes. Otherwise, all non-Fury '56 Plymouths with power brakes and automatic had the piston type booster cylinder that mounted above the master cylinder on the firewall. Like the bellows type does. The piston type also required the trigger arm on the brake pedal arm. '56 Plymouths with power brakes and automatic (Powerflite) transmissions seem to be the most common configuration in surviving examples. Standard transmission is rare, overdrive is rarer, and power brakes with manual transmissions seems to have no surviving examples. The reason this matters to me is I'm going to throw every cool option I can at the last '56 Fury I just acquired (Rich Lezcano's), e.g., air conditioning, power windows, power seats, power brakes, power steering, overdrive, 12" centerplane brakes all around, search tune 916HR radio, Highway Hi-Fi, and dual four-barrels. All these were really options on the '56 Fury, but I've never seen most of them on any 56 Plymouth. I obtained the pieces I'll use from 55-56 Desotos and Chryslers. (Same part numbers Plymouth used.) The body work (quarter panels) is finished now, so the bare body is ready to paint. Then its just a matter of finding where I put all the pieces and bolting them together. Richard Main _____ To unsubscribe, write to GoldenFin-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx <<attachment: winmail.dat>> |
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