Doh! ;-)
Hey, it is why I love the list... learn something new everyday! ;-)
Tom
sidney raper wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> I am surprised you missed this one. The very early cars had insulators
> that were rubber and metal (like a motor mount or solex insulators.)
> They bolted to the intake in the opposite holes from where the carb
> holes are. That is why they use short studs. From what I understand,
> they are tough to obtain, so the PO most likely replaced them with the
> phenolic spacers and just never removed the original studs.
>
> Sid
>
>
>> From: Thomas Walter <twalter@austin.rr.com>
>> Reply-To: Thomas Walter <twalter@austin.rr.com>
>> To: Geegc@aol.com
>> CC: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: Studs on intake manifold Q
>> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:09:47 -0600
>>
>> Odd indeed.
>>
>> The 1600 carbs are held on by two studs
>>
>> The 2000 carbs are held on by four studs.
>>
>> Does it look like someone tried to "port" the manifold for the
>> bigger carbs at one time? Still wouldn't explain the difference
>> in length.
>>
>> Yep, if you can't see the extra studs... time to steam clean
>> that engine!
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> Geegc@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> > As I am putting everything back together (the never ending story) on
>> my 1966
>> > 1600 I noticed that each of the carb sides of the intake manifold
>> has 4 3/8
>> > inch studs coming out, two long ones and two short ones. The long
>> ones go
>> > through the insulator blocks and hook up with the carbs, but as best
>> as I can
>> > tell the short ones don't connect to anything and exist only to
>> attract dirt.
>> > Anyone have any idea what they were for?
>> >
>> > They are not on the later carbs manifold I have.
>> >
>> > Gary C
>> >
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