Re: '49 Deluxe 288 vacuum routing

Posted by Fish'n Jim On 2013/8/24 21:00:21

Thanks again. I'm pretty(99.99+%) sure I got it right, after some more digging. I found another non-Packard source and they made the same "mistake" on the pump. I'm a ChemEng. and we live under vacuum, so that was the easy part. Whomever rerouted this tubing must have worked in a maze most of their life... I don't know if they just gave up, or it actually ran like that... I'm sure it wasn't going far with what I took out of the fuel pump sump. You could have repaired a good size chuckhole with that wad. Driving in the rain musta been fun.
My fix on the exhaust manifold carb heat riser worked out. It's a bit tricky without removing it but it's a neat solution, if you're tube is rotted off. We do alot of tubing too.