35T air filter side tube
farmermike
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in HUDSON
My 35 Terraplane has a small copper tube that attaches to the underside of the air filter and drops down about 16 inches and just dead ends. It has a bracket that bolts it to the intake manifold. Can anyone tell me what it is for? Did it attach to something in a former life? It seems like it would bring in unfiltered air to the carb. but I do not know how the interior of the filter is constructed.
Thanks,
Mike
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Sounds like the vacuum fitting for an Electric Hand. Did your car ever have this feature? If not, maybe someone lost the original air cleaner / silencer housing, and got one from an Electric-Hand-equipped '35 (or later) Hudson or Terraplane.
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Thank you for the feedback. I do not know if the car ever had an electric hand. I have not found any other evidence that it had one.I presume I can just blank it off and be good to go. Is there any way to open those filters up? Mine seems to be sealed permanently. I would like to get some dents out of it without drilling holes and using a slide hammer to pull them out.Thanks again------0
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If it isn't badly damaged you might possible trade it for a regular silencer without the tube. Someone out there may have the regular one and want to obtain an original "tube version". Stranger things have happened. (For example, I have a '37 that never had Electric Hand, yet I hope to hook it up someday. However, I only have the "regular" Terraplane silencer.) You could post your trade here, and also send it to the WTN where it will have a somewhat wider audience.
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