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Air cleaner housing to carburetor gasket torn

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While removing my air cleaner assembly today to clean the Waxoyl off the carburetor heat shield I noticed that the gasket was ripped between the air intake and this smaller port. Should I find a new gasket for this? Is it very important that the gasket separate these two openings? They both draw air from the same place? Or is the smaller one something else?

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Nah, won't hurt anything. Some gaskets don't even have the divider between that port and the main intake to begin with.

Interesting carb there, I didn't realize that later Spits used a water-heated automatic choke.
 
Stirkle said:
Does anyone know what that port is for?
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It vents the chamber formed between the underside of the diaphragm and the carb body. The two small holes below it, just inside and above the mounting holes in the flange, vent the main suction chamber above the diaphragm.

TR3driver said:
I didn't realize that later Spits used a water-heated automatic choke.
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I don't think many of them still do. From my experience, the bimetallic strip wears out pretty fast and leaves you with a car that refuses to kick down from a fast idle. At that point, unless you want total originality it's easier to just convert back to a manual choke.
 
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