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MG MGB GT V8 Factory Originals Technical - vacuum pipe-brain fade

Help!!
I have just found my distributor vacuum pipe melting on exhaust manifold( factory v8)I can't see or remember where inlet side goes to-.Mind you car has never driven better!!
N.T Griffiths

Somewhere on your intake manifold (or something connected to it) should be a small fitting that the vac hose clips onto. I have an edelbrock intake and standing at the front of the car looking backwards it's toward the right side of the manifold, right in front of you. I don't know where it is on a factory-style manifold, but it's gotta be right there. So the car runs great with a little vacuum leak ... go figure ... is the idle a little fast?
Ted

With SUs the other end of the pipe from the distributor goes to a port on the bottom of the LH (looking forward) carb close to the manifold adaptor. It should go though a bracket on the inlet manifold on the way, which I would have though would have stopped it dropping onto the manifolds, but maybe not. Shouldn't make any difference to the idle as the port is closed by the butterfly.
Paul Hunt

Thanks Paul

I have had a good look at the carb, and I can see holes/ports in the side of the body, is that where it goes??, sorry I don't have a manual for this car yet,

cheers

N.T Griffiths

There should be a right-angle rubber push-on connector between the tube and the carb. If it is not on the tube look on the carb. The connector pushes on to a small metal pipe about 1/8" by 1/2" that sticks *down* from the bottom of the carb casting under the butterfly spindle. If the connector is still on the carb it could be pointing in any direction by now. It is very difficult to see - and impossible to see and get your fingers in at the same time.
Paul Hunt

Paul

Found connector as you described--thanks for your help

N.T Griffiths

This thread was discussed between 13/07/2002 and 15/07/2002

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