Carb warming tubes?

[H00kem]

I am restoring my 65 Tiger V260. Noticed in my engine manual that there was a metal tube running from the air filter housing to the manifold and a second from the manifold to the carb. The manual calls it a carb warming tube for the choke. Mine are long since gone. Looks like they are broken off at the manifold. Three questions:

1) Does anyone have a photo or two of the tubes in place?

2) I live in Texas, a relatively warm climate. How important is it to the starting and/or running of the car to replace the tubes?

3) Anyone have suggestions about what to use for replacement? Looks like I would have to tap something metal into the manifold and run metal lines from there.

Thanks for reading.

 

[0neoffive]

The Plumbings

I am restoring my 65 Tiger V260. Noticed in my engine manual that there was a metal tube running from the air filter housing to the manifold and a second from the manifold to the carb. The manual calls it a carb warming tube for the choke. Mine are long since gone. Looks like they are broken off at the manifold. Three questions:

1) Does anyone have a photo or two of the tubes in place?

2) I live in Texas, a relatively warm climate. How important is it to the starting and/or running of the car to replace the tubes?

3) Anyone have suggestions about what to use for replacement? Looks like I would have to tap something metal into the manifold and run metal lines from there.

Thanks for reading.

The 1/8" tube from the rear of the right side exhaust manifold stubbed into the face of the bi-metal choke spring with a farrel/compression fitting. The tube from the small connection at the bottom of the air cleaner also plugged into the choke spring aperture to create a mild vacuum to draw the air thru the system over the spring thereby warming the choke. Most of us have converted to electric choke systems by now as the man hours repairing the manifold riser plumbing is quite a pain.

 

[H00kem]

The 1/8" tube from the rear of the right side exhaust manifold stubbed into the face of the bi-metal choke spring with a farrel/compression fitting. The tube from the small connection at the bottom of the air cleaner also plugged into the choke spring aperture to create a mild vacuum to draw the air thru the system over the spring thereby warming the choke. Most of us have converted to electric choke systems by now as the man hours repairing the manifold riser plumbing is quite a pain.

Thanks very much for this information. Would you think the car would run fine without at all? I don't see that my car was ever converted to an electric choke by the prior owner. given that the tubes were missing I assume that the prior owner ran without it. I only started and drove the car once before beginning its restoration. It was a bit slow to start but once started seemed to run ok.

 

[Billm]

Carb warming tubes

You should be able to buy the choke tubes from a Mustang parts supplier. Dallas Mustang? NPD?