TR6 175cd strombergs

[sundown]

Hey everybody starting to get warmer time to rebuild.Big question what is the copper pipe on the rear carb under the air cleaner flange for? I capped it, I capped the vacuum advance on the dizzy, capped the thermostatic valves on the radiator. Thanks for any answers

 

[poolboy]

If you had a thermostatic vacuum switch in the top radiator hose, you did not have a Vacuum Advance.
The last distributors that had a Vacuum Advance were the ones on the 1971 engines.
I don't know of any nipples under the carb's air box mounting flange.
If there is a nipple on the bottom side of a carb, it would be closer to the carbs' intake manifold mounting flange.
If that's the actual location, it would be the source of the Vacuum that activates the Vacuum Retard module on the distributor.

 

[sundown]

Thanks thats it since I capped off the vacuum retard on the distributor I should also cap off the carb one Willthis mess anything up with the performance of the carbs?

 

[poolboy]

Actually, there's no need to cap the nipple on the distributor..it's just a hole now. But the nipple on the carb is sucking air which disrupts the fuel air mixture entering the combustion chamber, so that's the nipple (the source of the vacuum) that needs capping.
As far as affecting performance by deactivating the retard, not in a negative way will it affect performance.
Let's say the retard was working and your engine was idling at 900 rpms, then you came along and pulled the vacuum tube off the nipple on the bottom of the carb, and immediately put a plug on that nipple. What you would notice is an increase in the rpms of about 200.
That's because your engine became more efficient with the resultant advance in ignition timing.
But that effect would only be noticeable when the rpms are below approx. 1100 rpms.
Above that, there would not normally be enough vacuum to activate the retard.
The exception to that statement is the amount of vacuum during engine braking, such as shifting to a lower gear in order to slow the car down, but performance per se should not be a factor under those conditions.
Is that long winded enough answer to your question ?

 

[sundown]

Thanks Poolboy awesome explanation !