David
You maybe totally correct that there was no service part and that is
why Rootes listed no Ford part number.
As I have stated I was curious so I dug into this issue to see what I could
find.
There are 2 styles of this vacuum line; early style has a taller and narrow
vertical loop, later style, made for the Mustang, has a shorter and wider
vertical loop. The change in styles happened in 1964.
I have pictures of both styles on Tiger engines. To me the pictures of the
stock Ford line look different than the pictures of the stock Tiger line.
This is not the best way to judge them but is what I have on hand.
I purchase a new vacuum line, later style - length = 26 3/8" but I have no
idea how correct it is.
I installed this later style vacuum line on my engine and checked the
clearance to the Bonnet - 2". I suspect the early style line would have
about an inch of clearance.
Reported length of the Tiger line - 25" from 3 replies to my question.
I bent a 27" length of tubing similar to the new vacuum line I purchased,
except I put a larger radius bend at the distributor as shown in pictures,
then cut it to tuck it in along the coil and for clearance to the radiator
hose.
Tube length = 25"
Ron Fraser
-----Original Message-----
From: David or Gary Franchi [mailto:wwwdg@webtv.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 2:14 PM
To: rfraser@bluefrog.com; tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Distributor vacuum line
I believe the reason there is no Ford part number shown in the Tiger parts
book is Ford didn't service the vacuum line. The Ford parts book for 1960 to
1964 (link below) and the 1965 to 1972 both state "12226 TUBE-DISTRIBUTOR
VACUUM-STEEL..NOT SERVICED-MAKE FROM 8C 2669-B" Since Ford didn't have a
number, Rootes wouldn't either. I wonder if there are any of these left in
inventory in England, I never tried to order one in the past. I don't
believe an original Ford line and Tiger line would be different, the only
interference problem I can see might be hood clearance.
David
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