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Exorcising my cursed B-20. A couple of questions. 140-160 1973

posted by  Steve M. on  Fri Dec 12 09:23 CST 2003
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OK, put on my new water pump and rehabbed radiator today. Haven't fired them up yet, but they certainly look watertight, anyway. Keep those fingers crossed.

In the process I discovered a couple of mildly unsettling things.

1.) My oil leak was coming from the fuel pump, which was dangling by a single bolt. Can I reuse that gasket? What size are those bolts? Should I use washers?

This explains why I was all of a sudden having trouble starting in the a.m. Guess it wasn't the cold snap.

2.) The hose from my crankcase breather goes -- nowhere. Where should it attach?

I have the SUs with the round air cleaners.

If you can envision this set-up, I have a hose that goes from the oil cap to the fore end of the intake manifold. And I have a hose that goes from the master cylinder to the middle of the intake manifold, with a T joint that heads off to the plastic thing on the firewall shaped like four spheres (vacuum amplifier? I have no idea).

There's no obvious place for the breather hose to go.

Thanks in advance for the anticipated wisdom.

Steve M.

Raleigh, NC

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