Tips for changing intake manifold
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Thanks! Yea it's probably gonna be an 11 second car by the time it's done! Lol jk
So I'm calling it a night guys. Here's a pic I took a little earlier to show off the purple:
Looks like a Dodge!
I'm in the home stretch but I'm just too tired and frustrated. The wires and plugs are all back where they go, and vacuum lines and hoses are all back to where they go as well. Everything is back in the car except the air cleaner. I have a dilemma with the carb tho. It now sits about and inch or so higher than it used to, and there is a fixed steel tube that runs into the front of it that I can't get to fit. You can see it curling up the the front of the hole on the intake where the carb would sit, by a bolt hole. Passenger side. Anyways, I don't know what it does, but it runs all down in front of the water neck and behind the alternator, down to this spherical thing way down near the bottom of the engine bay, in front of the starter I think.
On the bright side. I test fitted the air cleaner just to see hood clearance. She fits! I have maybe an inch and a half of hood clearance when closed.
What I have left:
-finish up with the carb
-air cleaner
-new coolant
-oil change
-make sure the car runs fine. Hopefully the distributor won't give me trouble
-charge my battery. The hood light killed it
Thanks for everyone's help and support today!
That would be your fuel line. Hopefully you can tweak and tug on it to get it up to the new carb height. If not a $10 tubing bender from harbor freight will help moving the line without kinking it. Worst case you cut the steel line at the bottom just before it bends up, cut out that whole corner and loop a piece of fuel line in there with clamps. I do that on every SBC I have owned and put a cheap $2 plastic fuel filter in the loop that gets changed every summer as the canister one on the carb is a bit of a PIA as you have found out.
Looks great by the way and I am sure you feel well accomplished in what you have done with your own hands !!
Looks great by the way and I am sure you feel well accomplished in what you have done with your own hands !!
Thank you! I am having a lot of fun and I do feel accomplished haha. Not done yet tho!
As suggested above, try to massage that line ip into position. That is the fuel supply line from the fuel pump up to the carburetor. Try to avoid cutting it. The steel line is safer. If you have to cut it, try to cut out a section between the carb and the alternator and put a disposable inline filter in the gap with a small piece of rubber hose on each end. It would be best to slightly flare each cut end of the steel fuel line to give the hose clamp something to grab.
In other words you would have the stock steel fuel line from the guel pump to where you cut it, somewhere between the alternator and the carb, then a short piece of 3/8" fuel hose to connect that line to an inline fuel filter, then a short piece of hose to connect the inline filter to the remaining portion of the stock steel line, connected to the carb. Let me know if this doesn't make sense. I couldn't seem to find a good picture. Your progress looks good. Here is a picture of the type of fuel filter we are talking about......
In other words you would have the stock steel fuel line from the guel pump to where you cut it, somewhere between the alternator and the carb, then a short piece of 3/8" fuel hose to connect that line to an inline fuel filter, then a short piece of hose to connect the inline filter to the remaining portion of the stock steel line, connected to the carb. Let me know if this doesn't make sense. I couldn't seem to find a good picture. Your progress looks good. Here is a picture of the type of fuel filter we are talking about......
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