if your carb is getting too warm and boiling gas out after you shut it off, you would want to make a spacer out of an insulating material. If everything works fine and you are just wanting put it in there to add a vacuum port, aluminum is fine.


Mike
1955 Chevy 6400 ex-flatbed (no bed now!) sold September 2023
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1958 Chevy 6400 flatbed W/dump
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1959 Chevy Suburban Owned for almost 20 years, Daily Driver -- sold May 2016
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