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Originally Posted by Mark IV
If we can do fifty of the pulleys I think we might pull the trigger! I have some contacts in the Galaxie world and there is some interest there which will help make it possible.
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From my point of view (having looked at too many originals to begin to count since circa 1971) you would have two similar but different versions to be 100% correct for most Mercury/Ford sedans with one model and a second for most CSX2201 and later Cobras. The sheave outer diameter of the two are different, the black paint is a little different, font used for the engineering number is different, and where the yellow inspection paint daub location is different.
Oh yeah, there was a service version without an engineering number stamped in (I have one.) and a version with prototype style markings (a forum member had one).
Dearborn Steel Tube made (more likely had made by a subcontractor) replacement sheave and fan assemblies for nearly three decades in small numbers and the ones I held in my hands at their booth at a show were slightly different than either the Ford sedan and Cobra ones.
My advice is to know what market you are after, decide if it is worth going for day one accuracy, and use a for sure genuine production original to copy.