Oil fill tube blocking upper rad hose/pipe

[dracko]

I’d like to use the OE style steel upper road hose pipe with the rubber on each end. For some reason when I line things up, the pipe is up against the fill tube/breather cap and that’s without the rubber connector hose on. I have 2 styles of thermostat housings and neither seem to work. It’s a 1968 327. Is there a certain thermostat housing I should be using?

[geezer#99]

You need one like this.
http://m.johnscotti.com/en/used/1966...ngine/7832148/

What are you gonna use for a pcv?

[dracko]

I bought one of those before I could get my hands on a rigid upper pipe and it’s nowhere near working with the pipe.

Crankcase ventilation is nonexistent on this thing. It was a solid running engine when I got and it had solid valve covers like my script covers and no PCV at the rear. There’s a blank boss where it should be beside the distributor. So my plan is to run as it has for 50 years and just breath out the fill tube.

[geezer#99]

Shorten the tube so the cap sits lower and clears the hose.

[dracko]

Originally Posted by geezer#99

Shorten the tube so the cap sits lower and clears the hose.

That would put the cap more in the way than it already is

[61K10]

did you have the tube out? might be in crooked.

[dracko]

Originally Posted by 61K10

did you have the tube out? might be in crooked.

I can’t remember if I removed it but I beat it with a rubber mallet and it didn’t budge. Think I’m gonna give up on the dream and just run a rubber upper hose...less spots to leak anyways.