Topic: Retaining Clip

[suskeenwiske]

Any suggestions on where I may be able to find this clip? It holds the Fuel and Vacuum Advance Lines together on my '65 6-Cylinder. The photo is of one I recently found in a salvage yard. I looked at the available clips for Automatic Transmissions but are too large and had little success trying to modify one to match the correct clip.

Thanks

Ray

[J_Speegle]

Other than getting lucky and having someone else here find on in their collection I don't know of any other resource except a donor car or motor. Unfortunately 6 cylinders are not collected nor saved like V8 pieces are but you can just keep looking

Here are a few other pictures of cars and other locations of where they might be located for others looking to help out.  Don't know of the specific application for the wider/larger clip seen on a couple of these examples at the front of the engine

[Ivygreen65]

That clip looks very similar to the clip that holds the C4 cooling lines together, but the cooling lines are the same size.  I wonder if you could modify the cooling line clip to work for your application.

[mjd 65]

Coincidentally, I just ordered a transmission line clip from NPD. As you can see from the picture below, it looks like a pretty close match to your clip.

[jwc66k]

The clip, 372223-S2/7, for transmission cooling lines is designed for two 5/16 inch dia tubes, the clip, 357655-S, for use on the I-6 (both 170 and 200CID engines thru 67 - no 68 eng documentation from Osborn) vacuum and fuel lines is shown for two 1/4 inch tubes so a pair of pliers would "shrink" it to fit. I think the fuel line may be 5/16 in dia, still within the range of the pliers treatment. There still remains the question of width however. The transmission cooler line clip is 1/4 inch wide.
Jim