Balance tube tips

glassbuggy · Samba Member Joined: June 02, 2005 Posts: 897

Hi guys, just wanted to share some things I did to resurrect my t3 powered dune buggy. So first I am in the middle of carb rebuilding and while at it I decided to ditch the fugly American car heater hose someone used to connect the balance tube. First pic is using shrink tubing to create a pad for the center bracket - it took two to fill the space. I overlapped them to do so

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glassbuggy · Samba Member Joined: June 02, 2005 Posts: 897

glassbuggy · Samba Member Joined: June 02, 2005 Posts: 897

I dug through my vw stash and low and behold a power steering hose from a new beetle is nice and snug for the connections.

glassbuggy · Samba Member Joined: June 02, 2005 Posts: 897

I cut two pieces about 2'' long out of the straight

sections.

glassbuggy · Samba Member Joined: June 02, 2005 Posts: 897

a bit of Windex or something slippery will get them on the tube. , After taking this pic I found that installing them on the intake manifolds first is the easiest thing here.

glassbuggy · Samba Member Joined: June 02, 2005 Posts: 897

There it is, no need for hose clamps. Pardon it's appearance, this motor has been in the car since '76. I have some cool stuff on the twins to post but I have to finish rebuilding them first.

Bobnotch · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:28 am Post subject: Re: Balance tube tips

Looks good. Stock parts always work best.
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