FI spider bracket
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FI spider bracket
Can someone post a picture of the small bracket that attaches to the center of the spider and attaches to the dog house?
It would be great if it was installed to show me how it goes.
My unit is a 62.
Thanks
It would be great if it was installed to show me how it goes.
My unit is a 62.
Thanks
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Joe,
No, at the moment, I don't have one to take a picture of (I just had the unit on the 56 removed last week) at this moment. Surely someone here will have one.
But until then, here is a brief description.
I presume you DO HAVE the bracket, right?
A 1/4x20 bolt goes through the bracket, then through a flat washer (as a spacer), then through the lower mounting bracket for the fuel meter and screws into the center threaded hole on the bottom of the plenum. There is a stud, or lug, on the top of the spider. A rubber grommet, with a groove around it, fits over that lug and the grommet fits into the "forked" end of the bracket.
If you had just asked this last week, I would have taken a picture for you!
No, at the moment, I don't have one to take a picture of (I just had the unit on the 56 removed last week) at this moment. Surely someone here will have one.
But until then, here is a brief description.
I presume you DO HAVE the bracket, right?
A 1/4x20 bolt goes through the bracket, then through a flat washer (as a spacer), then through the lower mounting bracket for the fuel meter and screws into the center threaded hole on the bottom of the plenum. There is a stud, or lug, on the top of the spider. A rubber grommet, with a groove around it, fits over that lug and the grommet fits into the "forked" end of the bracket.
If you had just asked this last week, I would have taken a picture for you!
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Thanks DZ for your discription and WFM62 for your pictures.
Now I can finish assembly and see if this thing works!
Now I can finish assembly and see if this thing works!
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I just purchased a kit from John DeGregory and I was about to install it when I found out that I am missing the bracket for the spider.
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Thats it!..smart move, thats the valve you need.
There are two types of Vette owners with 62 and earlier fuel injection Cars. {1} those that own a Vette that HAS hydrauliced a piston and {2} those that are going too.
Not once, but twice. I could be the dubious leader in busted FI engines. Certainly not a distinction that I want. I suppose the alternative name is 'dumb ***'. The last time it had a whole list of nice busted parts. I had just finished replacing my rebuilt waterpump and decided before I left the parts store to crank it up. It always starts almost before I can get my hand off the switch. No exception this time either. It started and broke at the same time. A huge bang #3 rod bent, piston garb aged, broken rings and theres more. It broke the nose off the starter and busted the end off the aluminum bellhousing where the starter attaches. All that in a milil-second, I was stunned. I called my starter rebuilder the next day and cussed him out for making the starter too damn good. He laughed and exchanged the broken one NC.... .
Dont leave home without one..
There are two types of Vette owners with 62 and earlier fuel injection Cars. {1} those that own a Vette that HAS hydrauliced a piston and {2} those that are going too.
Not once, but twice. I could be the dubious leader in busted FI engines. Certainly not a distinction that I want. I suppose the alternative name is 'dumb ***'. The last time it had a whole list of nice busted parts. I had just finished replacing my rebuilt waterpump and decided before I left the parts store to crank it up. It always starts almost before I can get my hand off the switch. No exception this time either. It started and broke at the same time. A huge bang #3 rod bent, piston garb aged, broken rings and theres more. It broke the nose off the starter and busted the end off the aluminum bellhousing where the starter attaches. All that in a milil-second, I was stunned. I called my starter rebuilder the next day and cussed him out for making the starter too damn good. He laughed and exchanged the broken one NC....
.Dont leave home without one..
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Here's what we're talking about! 
This is not from a hydroliced FI engine, BUT IT IS from a hydroliced 420SB in my jet boat. The result is EXACTLY the same. You CANNOT compress a liquid!
It happened because water got into the engine.
Lake water, hot jet boat, having a good time, water down the carb-------------you figure out the rest!
This is not from a hydroliced FI engine, BUT IT IS from a hydroliced 420SB in my jet boat. The result is EXACTLY the same. You CANNOT compress a liquid!
It happened because water got into the engine.
Lake water, hot jet boat, having a good time, water down the carb-------------you figure out the rest!
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