Body/Suspension/Steering, Gil's Garage
Gil’s GarageGil BaumgartnerCTCI Authenticity ChairmanConverting to disc brakes on your Thunderbird will provide you with significantly improved braking, and is not a hard conversion to make. The photos included, and description provided, are related to the disc...
Body/Suspension/Steering, Gil's Garage
Gil’s Garage Gil BaumgartnerCTCI Authenticity Chairman This article and accompanying photos will provide some basic information about the Dial-0-Matic seat installed in some late 1957 Thunderbirds. Photo # DM1 (click on picture for larger image) Photo # DM2...
Body/Suspension/Steering, Gil's Garage
Gil’s GarageGil BaumgartnerCTCI Authenticity ChairmanIf you cannot remember or do not know when the brake fluid was replaced in your Thunderbird, it is time. I recommend replacing the fluid every three years. See the restoration manual pages 324-327 for how-to...
Fuel System, Gil's Garage
Gil’s Garage Gil BaumgartnerCTCI Authenticity Chairman All 1955/56/57 Thunderbirds were originally equipped with Holley carburetors. The following pictures show the type and model for each year. For detailed information see the CTCI Restoration Manual for part...
Fuel System, Gil's Garage
Gil’s Garage Gil BaumgartnerCTCI Authenticity Chairman The following information corrects previous available data regarding the carburetor to intake manifold gaskets. Research reveals that the 1955 Thunderbirds had a stack of five thick gaskets stapled together....
Fuel System, Gil's Garage
Does your 1955/56 or E-model 57 idle rough or too fast and appear to have a vacuum leak that you cannot find? The model 4000 carburetor sometimes develops a vacuum leak behind the choke plates were the throttle body meets the main body. When this leak occurs the...
