Hi Tom : This Little Tube thingy has been very interesting to many of us since you started the thread . I now wonder if the starter designers predicted that some Dakotas would motor below the surface of bodies of water .Are the baffles in the Tubey to prevent reverse flow?
Thanks Jon for researching the patent . Now I'm Baffled :-)
Jim : 91 Dak
> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:09:49 -0400
> From: metalshop@optonline.net
> Subject: DML: Re: Little tube thingy on the end of the starter: what is (was) it?
> To: Dakota-Truck@dakota-truck.net
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> Thanks Jon for clarifying this (interesting link to the patent, too). I
> might have guessed a breather tube but a drain tube for water? Who knew?
>
> So I guess you're telling that putting Goop over the hole that remained when
> the tube broke off was "not" a good idea!
>
> Tommy
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