Vacuum Advance Distributor Line

[Jesse]

Hey guys, a little while ago the subject of vacuum advance distributors came up. I realized that mine was hooked straight to the manifold and I think Bob mentioned that they should be hooked up to the carburetor. I unscrewed the brass plug on the base of the carb. It has no vacuum at idle and vacuum under throttle. Is this what I need to connect to? I just reset my timing per a manual and I did it with the vacuum line unhooked. So I should think I would be good to go after I connected the line properly?

Thanks for any input!
-Jesse

[scoutpilot]

Yes Jesse. That is where it connects. By the way. It is not usually necessary to use RTV for the carb gasket. If it is working, leave it alone for now.

[Mark W.]

Actually silicone and gasoline are a serious bad combo. Gasoline can cause Silicone sealants to balloon up to many many times their original size and then pieces fall off plugging fuel lines and carbs up.

I once as a kid made the mistake of siliconing the sending unit into the tank on a 52 Chevy 3100 custom cab pickup and about a mile and a half from my girl friends house had to get under the thing and with a wire dig silicone out of the petcock valve in the bottom of the tank. The results were I smelled like gasoline had chemical burns on my right arm and the big date we were going to be going on ended up with her mom a nurse. Washing my arm and applying some kind of ointment to it. Needless to say I haven't let Silicone sealers get anywhere near gasoline since.

I took another 4 attempts to get all that orange crap out of the tank.

[Jesse]

Perfect thanks Scoutpilot! My carb gasket isn't the best, I should probably replace it if I ever take the carb off. Its a petroleum safe gasket maker.

-Jesse