Old man with old car, new here with questions
Whoah-whoah-whoah. That's wrong. The heater vacuum hose is meant to connect to a fitting on the № 6 (rearmost) intake manifold runner. That carb fitting is for your PCV. Can't tell from these pics, but perhaps your '62 was neither a California nor a New York car, and has the old road draft tube instead of PCV, in which case see here.
That's correct—if your manifold fitting has only one large nipple for the power brake hose, and doesn't have a small nipple for the heater vacuum hose, you'll want to either get a fitting that has both sizes or tee off the large hose connected to the intake manifold.
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Dan, you mentioned a 1962. Mine is a 1960. It may not matter?Should I blank off the vac port if I move it?
1) The valve cover has a road draft tube which is mounted by the factory. No PCV. A picture is attached.
2) The only item attached to the intake manifold is the vac line going to the power brake booster and then to a vacuum tank. Pictures attached.
3) You attached a "here" in the event I do not have a PCV valve but it did not open. It went to a blank page.
4) Are the O ring and the grommet still possibilities for my car since it is a 1960 instead of a 1962?
5) The old messed up carb had a vacuum line that went to an EGR valve on the manifold that was replaced. I capped it off and will blank it off.
6) Should I reconnect the heater vacuum line by putting a "T" into the brake line
7) If you tell me the O ring and the grommet will or may work on my 1960 I will get them both.
8) The vent line from the tank does up into the wheel well fairly high and then goes back down and under the back of the trunk where it is open. I will need to reroute a portion of the line.
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Thank you, Hank
Interesting idea. Can you point us at what you bought?
The '62 cars didn't use a grommet like the '63-'66 cars. They used an O-ring, part № 2073 938 (buy one here) and a rubber-over-steel seal plate № 2242 359 (buy here). Starting in '63 the rubber-over-steel plate is the same, but the O-ring was replaced by a sturdier grommet № 2203 473. I don't know whether or how easily one could upgrade to the '63+ grommet, but if you want to try, you can buy one here.
Ugh. When repairing this, make sure to route the vent line correctly. It needs to rise way up high, then make a U-turn and head back down and out through the trunk floor. If no high U-turn, you'll piss gasoline out the vent.
