At 12:52 PM 5/10/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, I was staring at my TR3B last night (didn't help; it's still a numbers-
>matching hulk at least 1000 hours away from being a car again) and
>noticed something I'd never noticed before. I'm wondering how much of a
>DPO bodge it might be.
>
>IMS, the little garden hose-style valve stands upright out of the head,
>with the green handle on top. On my car, it lies flat with the handle
>pointing at about one o'clock, assuming the front of the car is twelve
>o'clock. It connects via a pipe to a T fitting that goes into the block
>where I assumed the valve normally goes. The another very short piece of
>pipe connects to an elbow, sending yet another very short piece of pipe
>out at about four o'clock, to the rubber hose itself.
>
>Is this, as I imagine it must be, some bizarre attempt to "improve" the
>system, or have other TR3B (or 3A, or...) owners seen such a setup on
>their cars?
>
>It doesn't appear that this poor beast suffered many other indignities of
>this type, although the (I'm guessing here) long ago telephone pole crash/
>rollover/abandonment/stripping of the car didn't do it much good, either! :-)
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>--Andy
>
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Andy,
My 3B has the standard up and down valve, although it is stuck!
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