1935-1947 Fuel Pump Heat Shield Mystery

Posted by Joe Santana On 2011/2/8 11:20:05

I bought one of these and cannot find a factory photo of one. Supposedly the reason you don't see them on any cars (mine never had one) is because they were removed by lazy mechanics who didn't replace them because they thought they were unnecessary. I drove 300K miles without ever getting vapor lock (I once pushed a late model ---at the time--Cadillac that had vapor lock up Santa Cruz mountain hwy to get it started...we didn't have a cold grapefruit handy).. Went I tried to install the shield last night, there's no accommodation for air tube attaching to the manifold. I'm wondering if anyone has an original of one of these and how the tube is routed as original equipment. Or if anyone bought one of these and installed it, how did you route the tube. As some know, making flared tube is one of my favorite things to do.

Joe

Photo explanation. The upper right white tag is supposed to attach to the right hand bolt of the manifold, but the copper tube fron the fuel pump to the manifold, routed as it is in factory photos blocks it.

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