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Offline Katfish

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Suggestions on fixing this air cleaner
« on: February 08, 2009 - 11:07:16 AM »
Any ideas where I can find the center piece that someone hacked off.  I don't need it to be original, just hold the base down.  Any ideas where I could get a replacement donor piece to graft in?

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Re: Suggestions on fixing this air cleaner
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2009 - 11:15:35 AM »
Katfish I had almost the identical problem!!! I got pics of the fix somewhere.... its on a flash drive here at home. Gimme a little time and I'll post it tonight. Or find my post on it when I did it.... but that was like 2 years ago! Hang in there buddy I'll be back
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Re: Suggestions on fixing this air cleaner
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2009 - 11:25:04 AM »
Thx!  Appreciate the help

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Re: Suggestions on fixing this air cleaner
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2009 - 02:45:37 PM »
Ok, I don't know your exact situation. But mine was having a HOLLEY carb!! Maybe somewhere there is a Shaker base made for this (if someone knows ??).
Anyway mine was very crudley altered to fit the carb. And sucking in allot of unfiltered air and what ever else! I went to an "oldschool" boneyard about an hour from here. And picked up a few fdfferent carb bases. As my yard is "latemodel" so I don't have this stuff laying around any more.

Grabbed 2 mopar and one GM as the airhorn ring is the same size rochester Q-bog to Holley. We used trial and allot of errors but ended up using (dare I tell you) the GM base and grafted it into the exisiting base. We used a ball from a very large ball bearing to press dimples into the base to allow space for the float adjusters on the carb.  Although it turned out ok, my final measurements were just a tab off so my shaker is slightly lower on the left side. I hope to remedy this one day. Anyway my pics should give you a pretty good idea.
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Re: Suggestions on fixing this air cleaner
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2009 - 02:57:37 PM »
looks like it was opened up for a dominator carb to me

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Re: Suggestions on fixing this air cleaner
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2009 - 03:39:52 PM »
Don't know, bought it that way.....  :walkaway:

But doubt it as clearance was really tight! Even switched from the thick carb gasket to the paper thin one.

But anything is possible.

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Re: Suggestions on fixing this air cleaner
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2009 - 03:41:22 PM »
You really did some nice work, mine should be much simpler.  I only need to re-attach some sort of bar to hold down the base and provide studs for the oval top.

Trick is how or what kind of donor would be best.

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Re: Suggestions on fixing this air cleaner
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2009 - 05:38:39 PM »
Here is what your missing piece look like. The oval lid is not the same as a sixpak. It uses the $$$$HEMI$$$$ lid. I can measure the parts if you want.
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Re: Suggestions on fixing this air cleaner
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2009 - 05:54:37 PM »
Thx for the pic, looks like I got some fabricating to do.

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Re: Suggestions on fixing this air cleaner
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2009 - 06:04:48 PM »
Let me know if you need any more pics or measurements.
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