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looking to find the difference in the early carb tin stove heater, i have two or three they all seem to be slightly different , one has a hole where the lug that holds the intake and exhaust to the block reach's through , looks factory,

Dan Treace posted a nice comparison photo of three later pipes (1919-1927) in this post. http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/70 ... 1491064370
He mentions that earlier cast iron or steel pipes did not have the flare.

THANK YOU KEVIN, IT MAKES ONE WONDER WHEN YOU HAVE A FEW THINGS THAT DO THE SAME JOB WHY THEY CAN BE SO DIFFERENT, INTERESTING FOR SURE, WHEN I WAS A PUP DAD HAD A 29 A, AND THE CARB WOULD FREEZE, WOHA,THERE, THAT'S NOT TRUE, THE MANIFOLD WOULD ICE UP JUST BEYOND WHERE THE CARB BOLTED TO THE MANIFOLD, UNCLE CHARLIE TOOK A STRAND OF ROPE HE SLATHER'D WITH GREASE,PUT IT BETWEEN TWO GASKETS SNUGGED THAT BETWEEN THE FLANGE'S , THAT FIX SEEMED TO STOP THE FREEZE', SEEMS I REMEMBER HEARING HE SAYING THE FLANGE ON THE MANIFOLD WAS WARPED, CAUSING A VACCUM LEAK, WHAT HE DID TO THAT 29 SEEMED TO STOP THE FROST BUILDING UP ON THE MANIFOLD--PART OF MY EDUCATION GROWING UP, WAS MY UNCLES ALL WERE WRENCHER'S,AND CAR BUFFS, I WAS THE KIND OF KID IF THEY WERE TEARING A CAR APART I WAS UNDER THERE FEET, THAT WAS A WONDERFUL TIME TO BE GROWING UP, CANT HAPPEN WITH TODAY'S MONSTERS, IVE HAD A LIFETIME OF TINKERING WITH CARS, AND ENJOYED MOST OF THE TIME DOING SO. LETS HEAR HOW OTHERS BECAME INTERESTED IN THIS HOBBY,

This happened to me on an A, but could also happen on a T. When I was in high school I had a 29 A. One morning on the way to school, it started running lean so I fiddled with the richness mixture. It kept getting worse until it quit running. Turned out the carburetor had fallen off the manifold. The bolts came out! This car had a Tiltson carburetor which was made of pot metal, and the bolts were threaded right into the carburetor flange. They had stripped out! There is also a problem with the pot metal bending causing the gasket to leak. So some after market T carburetors are also made of pot metal, but if they bolt on the same way as the original carburetor, the nuts should keep them in place, but they could still be warped.
Norm