Routing for brake vacuum hose from engine bay

[Walt Fricke]

My car (a 1977 tub) did not come with power brakes. I added them (luckily the tub had the steel tube running down the center tunnel, and the '85 front end I had welded on after a racing incident had the cut outs and another tube etc. And my '82 SC engine had the vacuum extractor Y piece. Back there I bought the hose, but didn't know how to route it.

So I ran it between the cross member, the engine tin, and the surrounding gasket, then in sensible places, restrained with some loose zip ties, down to the left front of the transmission area where it hooks onto the long tube.

But I wonder where it is supposed to go? Perhaps in front of the cross member in the left front corner?

[rwest]

Walt, I just replaced mine, it runs alongside the fuel lines coming out in the far left corner of the engine compartment by the accumulator. In this picture, you can see just behind the accumulator the metal hoop with the two rubber fuel lines and then the braided booster hose; it follows them down and over the torsion tube and over the nose of the transmission.

[Walt Fricke]

Thanks - maybe next time the engine comes out I'll route it this way.

[rwest]

Walt,

I did mine with engine in place and it was an easy job, believe that, I couldn't.

Fed it over the transmission and then up into the engine bay from underneath.