Reply To: Drain Tube

Hi Ken

I had to smile when I saw your post. When I first got my car and was attempting to get it running better, I noticed that the vacuum advance and retard pipe was missing from where it should attach to the back of the carburettor, I checked and it was definitely visible at the distributor end so following it around behind the engine I found that the previous owner, for some reason best known to himself, had attached it to the end of the manifold drain pipe. I can’t imagine that it worked very well bearing in mind the size of the hole and of course the correct fitting point was busy sucking in air. Needless to say it runs better with the pipe attached correctly.