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#28671 11/27/2004 3:04 PM | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 142 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 142 | I am cleaning up & painting the draft tube on my GMC 228. I see that there is a "clamp" toward the end of the tube. I am not sure what it is for. Any ideas?? | | |
#28672 11/27/2004 3:31 PM | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 124 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 124 | On my Chevy 235, there is a clamp on the draft tube. A screw attaches the clamp to the block.
On my engine, the clamp can silde on the tube, so your's may not be in the original position. | | |
#28673 12/08/2004 4:16 AM | Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 113 Member | | Member Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 113 | JGalt is dead on. There shoulf be screw that holds the draft tube to the block. Before painting your draft tube, try a trick that my Dad the 54's mechanic told me of. Often these tubes get clogged. Seems they were originally packed with horse hair. Take your draft tube out to the barbie and pour a little lamp oil inside it and light it. Yes it will burn the horse hair out, but it will also allow the tube to create better vacume when you drive it. By the way, burning it with lamp oil didn't harm it...you only need a short burn, and it also removed the old paint. Just clean, prime and paint!
Bruce (I love My Truck) Miller
1954 5 Window 3100 Chevy Pickup - Driver
1929 **** Model A Pickup - Restoration
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