Cowl vent drain hose?
 

Just getting ready to take the maiden voyage in my truck and I'm finalizing a few minor details. Did a search on this and nothing came up so I thought I'd ask: The top cowl vent on my AD has a drain that exits right above all the new wiring under my dash (without the hose). So I bought an aftermarket replacement hose. Now it exits through the firewall right above the distributor on my SBC, which is worse. I could extend the hose down past the distributor, but that might look a bit goofy. I was hoping one of you guys might have a slick solution.

My cowl vent has one of those foam gaskets in it, so maybe water won't even get into that drain. Thoughts?

Re: Cowl vent drain hose?
 

Yep, Lots of us who have had one of these trucks have fought that battle.
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What I intend to do on mine "this time" is to run a tube down the inside of the firewall to the right of the indent to the foot board and make a hole there so that it exits below the floor much like the drain tube on an AC unit. With a short piece of hose from the vent drain tube to that tube I should be good.

Re: Cowl vent drain hose?
 

YEp, that's my plan too.

Brian

Re: Cowl vent drain hose?
 

Thank you gentlemen.

Re: Cowl vent drain hose?
 

I welded my fire wall hole closed and rand the drain house on the inside of the firewall. I added a T to the hose and connected my drain from my AC system to drain out of the same hose.. I never liked the look of the factory drain hose sticking out of the fire wall.

Re: Cowl vent drain hose?
 

I just did this repair last week. I'm not crazy about the hose exiting onto the valve cover, I'm guessing it could get into the cover/ oil?

The original hose was split under the dash (for who knows how long) and likely caused a lot of my dash/ floor rust issues.

Re: Cowl vent drain hose?
 

just don't drive in the rain & you should be good !!!

Re: Cowl vent drain hose?
 

Longer hose does the trick. Pun intended.