Hi Dan,
The other thing you have to consider is the clearance between the choke air
horn and the top of the air cleaner housing. If they had to cut the bowl
vent tube to get things to fit, you can bet your engine is going to be a
little asthmatic. I would say that your body shop owes you, big time. After
you determine how much clearance you have, using plasticine or Steve L's
tinfoil balls, you can get a machine shop to machine up a flanged ring that
fits the carb on one side, and has an inner retaining ring to locate the air
cleaner housing. Since the body shop will pay, there's no sense in cutting
corners, right?
Regards, Theo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scott van every [SMTP:irishve@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 12:39 PM
> To: deiland1@elp.rr.com; tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Tiger Lettered AC Housing
>
> Daniel:
> I had a similar problem where the Tiger Lettered housing was sitting
> crooked
> to allow for the screw. I took a 1/2" rubber hose, put both ends together
>
> with another small piece of rubber inside to make a ring, and placed it
> around the carb where the air filter housing rests on the carb. This held
> the housing up enough when tightened, did not show, and kept things from
> being crushed. Funky, but it worked.
> Scott
> B9471989
>
> >From: "Daniel S. Eiland" <deiland1@elp.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: "Daniel S. Eiland" <deiland1@elp.rr.com>
> >To: "Tigers@autox,team.net" <tigers@autox.team.net>
> >Subject: Tiger Lettered AC Housing
> >Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:34:17 -0600
> >
> >Hi Listers,
> >
> > I'm putting my car back together after having it painted and I'm
> >having
> >a minor problem getting my air filter housing to fit properly. Seems the
> >body shop had to alter the bottom of the housing to drop it down to fit
> >under the LAT hood. They may have gone overkill here. They removed the
> cast
> >flange that mounts on the carb from the bottom of the housing in order to
> >drop the housing down a little. This all began because the float
> adjustment
> >screws were keeping the housing from sitting flush on the carburetor.
> They
> >were told to cut or drill some relief's where the adjustments were. When
> I
> >returned the next day they had drilled holes in the bottom plate for the
> >relief's and
> >removed the cast flange that mounts on the carb. If you look closely you
> >will see they also cut the forward vent tube on the carb. Well, the
> damage
> >is done and now I'm trying to figure out how to salvage what I can. This
> is
> >the situation now. When you tighten down the top to the filter housing
> the
> >front float adjustment screw crushes the paper filter (see photo
> p4110045).
> > If you look at the photo shot from the front of the car you can see
> where
> >the
> >paper has already been deformed and the top isn't even tightened down.
> This
> >damage is left over from where it was tightened down for the trip home
> from
> >the body shop. I guess I need to know if anyone else has ever had this
> >problem
> >before and if so what did you do about it? Do they make spacers that I
> >might
> >use between the carburetor and the housing to lift the housing just
> enough
> >to
> >clear the adjustment screw but still keep the housing low enough so it
> >clears
> >the LAT hood? I can always have something made at the machine shop but
> >if anyone has an easier solution I'm Game. You can see photos of my
> intake
> >and filter dilemma at:
> >
> >http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/f_eiland_2000?d&.flabel=fld4&.src=ph
> >
> >Let me know if you think of something. Thanks for all the help this list
> >has
> >given me over the past year. OH, BTW, I do except all opinions whether I
> >agree with them or not.
> >
> >Again, Thanks to all on the list for your help.
> >
> >Dan Eiland
> >
> >
> >
>
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