wiper tube/hose question
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 7:42 am
As I move daily along the path of the restoration of my own truck, after removing the "hard top", with nary a mark left on the cab, and then folding my windshield down for likely the first time in 3+ decades, went to drive my new "ragtop", and heard a hissing noise, and it was coming from the broken off metal tubing that comes from the big nut that holds the driver's folding hinge to the cab, which of course broke off leaving a nubbin of metal tube on the hinge attachment. How the metal tube that then connects to the rubber hose running up the inside of the left windshield frame is supposed to arc when the windshield is folded is beyond my understanding. So I tried with a wrench to see if the metal "thing" on the hinge was supposed to rotate with folding the windshield, and it won't budge. I put a short piece of tube with a plug on the Nubbin, to avoid a lean condition on my rear two cylinders, since I am running an electric fuel pump, and have a fitting and connecting rubber hose from a nipple fitting I screwed into the NPT female port available on the intake manifold.
Anyway, any guidance for me on how this metal contraption to provide vacuum to my military wiper motors is supposed to work? I will try to source a replacement hinge/tube thingy from somewhere, and just put rubber line between the windshield frame hard line, and the hard line at the hinge nut where it snapped off, leaving the nubbin.
Since the Houston disaster, non-ethanol gas is not available in my community. Only a quarter tank left. As I accumulate miles on my truck around town, I am gaining confidence in my driving of my '37, turning, braking, accelerating, waving at others, and so forth. Just a great feeling to step up into the open cab, stand on the cab floor, look around, see what is all around, then fire it up and head out. Put in three sets of aviation latching seating belts. My rebuilt engine just purrs, and idles, and pulls well up hills. Just had a local 4 wheel shop instal one of Charles T's custom rear diff pinion seals, and dry back there now, no need to wipe any gear oil off the garage floor anymore.
What fun!!!
NV
Anyway, any guidance for me on how this metal contraption to provide vacuum to my military wiper motors is supposed to work? I will try to source a replacement hinge/tube thingy from somewhere, and just put rubber line between the windshield frame hard line, and the hard line at the hinge nut where it snapped off, leaving the nubbin.
Since the Houston disaster, non-ethanol gas is not available in my community. Only a quarter tank left. As I accumulate miles on my truck around town, I am gaining confidence in my driving of my '37, turning, braking, accelerating, waving at others, and so forth. Just a great feeling to step up into the open cab, stand on the cab floor, look around, see what is all around, then fire it up and head out. Put in three sets of aviation latching seating belts. My rebuilt engine just purrs, and idles, and pulls well up hills. Just had a local 4 wheel shop instal one of Charles T's custom rear diff pinion seals, and dry back there now, no need to wipe any gear oil off the garage floor anymore.
What fun!!!
NV