Heater tube tread size?

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Bronco Bart

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Heater tube tread size . I had a new motor built for my 1989 foxbody and switched it to carbureted. I tried to leave the steel heater tube in place but it's to close to my electric choke and also seems to have a small leak now where I cut the sensor out and tried to connect with a rubber hose for the time being but now I'm looking at switching over to rubber hose and I'm just trying to confirm what fitting to get from the intake.

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I tried looking at the tube online but couldn't find the the tread size in the details and I don't have the car at home so can't even take the tube off to size it up.

 

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The intake it's tapped to 1/2" npt

 

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Bronco Bart said:

Heater tube tread size . I had a new motor built for my 1989 foxbody and switched it to carbureted. I tried to leave the steel heater tube in place but it's to close to my electric choke and also seems to have a small leak now where I cut the sensor out and tried to connect with a rubber hose for the time being but now I'm looking at switching over to rubber hose and I'm just trying to confirm what fitting to get from the intake.

Thanks Bart

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Change of plans now. What did others do with there heater lines?

 

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Kid wita 5oh said:

The intake it's tapped to 1/2" npt

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Are the hoses 3/4" and 5/8" into the heater core do you know? I was trying to figure out what hoses to get and I was looking online and a replacement heater core says 3/4" and 5/8" but I have the one short outlet line from the heater core and it looks bigger

 

Kid wita 5oh

I'm definitely not in the original hole

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Yea pretty sure that's correct

 

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My heater tube was missing so i got a heater outlet off something else just to have a port for thr ect and a water outlet for the heater. The tube is only three inches long but it's enough. I just run straight hoses back along the valve covers then connect to the shaped heater hosed with dorman hose connectors.

 

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