I’m getting close to trying to start my 1956 bird after a lonnnnng ordeall

[zuburg]

After almost 5 years of trying to fix the Frankenstein 1956 T-bird I bought, I’m almost ready to see if it will start. I just have a few things to button up.

One thing is on my old engine a small curvy tube that I now know was the automatic choke inlet tube. It was the tube that was inserted into the grommet under the ledge of the carb and then went into the intake via a brass elbow. It broke trying to remove it when disassembling so I now have a new tube. I couldn’t reuse the old brass elbow so will have to order it. Does the brass elbow just push into the hole on the intake?

Also, I don’t seem to have an outlet tube or crossover. Is something missing or will it run with just the inlet tube?