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Re: AC air cleaner restoration tips

To: Stu Brennan <stubrennan@attbi.com>
Subject: Re: AC air cleaner restoration tips
From: Larry Paulick <larry.p@erols.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:17:54 -0400
Hi Erich.  You can get a good quality, and proper color Hammertone from 
Eastwood.  On my car, with headers, and a Holley, I run a line from the 
small air cleaner tube to the carb.

Larry

Stu Brennan wrote:
> That tube goes down to a little heater box cast into the right exhaust
> manifold (stock), which then feeds hot air up to the automatic
> choke(again, stock).  If you have no downgoing tube, but still have the
> hot air choke, you are sucking dirty air into the choke, and the carb. 
> Not a good thing. I had to replace one of mine many years back.  Around
> the same time the choke froze int eh closed position.  I nearly ran out
> of gas on a half hour drive.  Some steel brake line did it for me, but a
> friend found some SS tube for another similar Ford product back in the
> '70's, and it's still looking good.
> 
> Stu
> 



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