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Is there a clamp to hold the carb overflow tubes to the frame or do they simply “hang free”?

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Is there a clamp to hold the carb overflow tubes to the frame or do they simply “hang free”?

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They tuck through the hole in the front engine bearer plate and then have a brass clamp that’s held by the bolt alongside the timing cover. There is a clip. Look in the Moss catalog MGT-23 on page 6, Item #69. It’s mounted on the bearer plate. The tubes are bent as necessary to go through this clip. They run from the carb bowls forward and down toward the forward engine mounting plate. After passing over it, they then bend to straight down, and are clamped my a little “M” shaped piece that has a bolt through the middle. If you see an empty hole in the plate, one that appears to accept about a 3/16″ bolt (but it’s the ww size, of course) that’s the hole. Sorry, that is NOT correct. If that is what you found, someone had already changed it. The clamp is lower case “d” shaped, in brass and the pipes originally went THROUGH the front engine bearer plate. No, there is a bolt that threads into the block outside and next to the timing cover (originally with a 3/16W head and near the “lump” th

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