I thought the yellowish blocks on the bottom of my air cleaner snorkels were a factory thing until I started looking at others air cleaners. I guess my Uncle added these to keep water away from the distributor. They used to have hoses attached to them that would route the water away but the car doesn't see rain anymore so I took them off. Ok, my question. These look to be fiberglass, how would you go about removing them? I don't want to damage the bottom of the snorkels.
I'd take the dremel tool with the cutoff wheel to it. Either that, or get a chemical that will break down the glue between the two, while not harming the air cleaner (tough bill to fill). Looks interesting.
I have a 1970 air cleaner that is missing the lid that i would sell. I'll post picture later. Peace WildBill
Yikes! How about taking them to a milling machine. You know approximately how thick the factory fibreglass is, and the depth of the part. Take the fibreglass buckets off, and put them in the Bridgeport or whatever, and take down the crummy add-on to where you're comfortable, then take off~ 5 mils at a time, and keep checking the work to make sure you're still cutting the stuff you want to cut
You know I would buy that off you if you decided to buy Topcats. I plan on drving mine daily so rain is a likely chance. I think its kinda slick. Let m eknow. I wish I had one to trade you of equal value. :3gears: :3gears:
For we ignorant E-body fans, could you please explain? Am I understanding it correctly... when it rains the scoops just fill up with water? There were never any drain holes in them??? If not that looks slick. Where does the water get diverted to? The front of the block?
Check the shape of the buckets out. The real drains are on the right hand bottom sides of the bottom, where the added on fibregalss bits are. The added on bits are directly under the factory drains. there's a series of holes there in the bottom. They are shaped so as to allow *most* rainwater to miss *most* of the alternator and disributor, *most* of the time :laugh:
There are holes where the yellow blocks are from the factory the water just drips out onto the motor. It probably causes some paint discoloration or something and annoyed his uncle in some way so he rigged that up. I like it myself.
Exactly, but he had rubber hoses that were long enough to route the water down under the timing cover attached to the drain hole on the add-on pieces . I've never driven the car in weather that would require that. Joe, If I get them off of there in any kind of useable condition I'll send them to you. :TU:
Rick- I was interested in the whole Air cleaner housing, if you decided to buy TopCats unit, I'd give you what you payed him, and some for your troubles, assuming his was in the same shape. otherwise I wouldn't bother. Its a bit of triangle thing....
try some heat i would try a little heat .maybe heat gun ,hair dryer.small propane torch.warm to glue material up ,should pop right off
Now there's an Idea :TU: , Mine does love hanging out in the garage with me:Brow: Caption...Yo, did somebody say something needed to be chewed? That's what I do!
