Heater Pipes

[Jose]

mine are not rusted outside, but inside I don't know the kind of crud there might be.

I have cleaned some metal tubing with muriatic acid more or less satisfactorily, but it never is like new.

[Glyn Ruck]

Hi Glyn. Perhaps when you get your car in the sunlight next, you could try again for me with a pic of how yours is routed. Unless you have any old pix from before restoration. I have no body tabs within the gearbox tunnel and it is pretty chock full of BW DG autobox! No urgency; I won't be using it much over the next few months; they have started gritting here, though I can't really complain. We've had a much-extended salt-free season.

Orlando ~ your scuttle vent drain tube appears to be running exactly where it should. It does not belong behind the exhaust cam cover. The scuttle drain nipple is not behind the exhaust cam cover. Will have another go at a pic. My before pics are all pre digital era

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[Glyn Ruck]

Hi Orlando ~ I've taken a look at my original hard photos. I photographed the engine compartment on all 3 sides after we swung the engine & transmission out but alas the scuttle pipe was already off. You can see where we bent back those tabs. Will try again & photograph my car with it fitted.

[Orlando St.R]

Great. Thanks for the confirmation, Glyn, plus the photos. Glad I got it right, finally.

[Glyn Ruck]

Raining here today. Weather is all screwed up. As long as the tube follows that row of attachment tabs it is correct. The moulded tube actually follows that scuttle line fairly accurately. Also the Auto tunnel is wider than a Manual tunnel. That gold car (Desert sand?) I show above is an Auto. I don't think that the Auto tunnel moved the tab positioning by any appreciable amount. Seems there was only ever one scuttle drain tube P/N.