CLAY72dart
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What is this thing circled in yellow never seen it before and my 72 has a massive vacuum leak from it.
Intake part question
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Fast340cuda
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Choke well
Choke heat stove. May have a sheet metal insert that rusted out, most were cast in the intake. just make a plate to go over it and seal it off.
CLAY72dart
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What is that exactly? Never seen one anyways had an aftermarket edelbrock carb.
CLAY72dart
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Yeah it has a shield over it and i think it is messing up my low idle in first gear at red lights it drops my ammeter and will sputter out if I don’t hold my foot on the gas a little.
Fast340cuda
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Should have had something similar to this from the factory. The choke mechanism would sit inside of this.
CLAY72dart
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I looked it up. I was wondering what that thing from the previous owner was
CLAY72dart
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I will just buy an edelbrock intake.
Do you really have a poly 318 in your 72 Valiant? (your pic from google).
It's an exhaust leak, not vacuum leak. Also, if it was me, I would rough up the new choke well with sandpaper and paint it with several coats of high temp barbeque black paint. That will help it to not rust out. OR you can get an aftermarket aluminum intake manifold that the choke well is not open to the exhaust cross over.
As asked above, are You just using that Poly intake as a reference? An Eddy intake won't fix whats wrong, unless You've got mis-matched parts that are leaking vacuum etc. If You're pointing out what is actually an EGR base from an LA intake, that CAN be a source of vacuum leakage, but a new EGR gasket is all You need under the block-off to fix it.
Johnny Dart
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Take the shield off, and look inside the choke well. Many were solid inside, with no possibility of a leak anywhere. Just used as a heat source for an automatic choke. My bet is you have a vacuum leak from another source. Carb ports, carb base gasket, intake, etc.
norshorblufish
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Sounds like same thing I had on another brand pickup when I was a young’un. The bolts on the base of the carb were loose and caused a vacuum leak. Put new gasket on and tightened the bolts problem solved.
CLAY72dart
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The picture was just a reference and I will check for other vacuum leaks today and the exhaust leak you were talking about.
Be careful of the ammeter "dropping out". In my opinion that seems like an electrical thing that wouldnt have anything to do with the choke.
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