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[monkeyboy]

last night i was fitting a new carb to my 1098 clubman, and on the old one a tiny black tube used to be situated near the maifold, this tube then led down on to the side of the dizzy.
I dont know what this little tube does, and cant fit it on my carb.
SO do i need to get a new carb or will the engine run fine with out it.??????



any info would be greatfully recieved.


cheers lee

[Jammy]

Thats the vacumn advance tube. You can have your engine tuned to run without it, and considering you'll need to have your car Rolling Roaded now anyway, I would say take this route.

[Grayedout]

But you will need to get the advance curve of the dizzy modified to suit!

What carb have you fitted ?? Very surprised its not got a vacuum advance takeoff !

[monkeyboy]

Situation over, it just appears that the conenction onthe carb has broken off , so not too worry as i have loads more carbs to choose form.





Diagnosis = me being a spaz ( working on mini til 3.10 am)
cheers lee