Do I need to keep my dashpot

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As a new owner of a '74, I've been going through the mechanicals of the car and tossing stuff that wasn't connected or was part of the EGR system. Car has stock Zeniths. EGR was rendered inoperable but all the plumbing was still there. I took off the EGR filter and ss manifold tubes, removed the vacum switches on the firewall that went to the EGR. Plugged all fittings. The only remaining component which still looks hooked up is the dashpot with its vacuum switch. Can I pitch this? It looks like it is also wired to a relay or speed sensor? box on the front of the engine compartment under the fresh air intake. There are two boxes there which I think I can pitch. Correct? Sorry no pictures, I will try to add if there is any confusion. Thanks for any help. Brian
 
not to hijack this thread ... but it brings up a very good point. if you were going for a true concours 100 point car 20 years from now ... wouldn't you really need ALL of that stuff?
 
By "chuck it" i meant into a box. I keep everything i take off. Poor choice of words
 
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DQ has a very nice Euro car. These were never plagued with the EGR and dashpot crap.
No way he´d spoil his beautiful coup with that stuff.
He might clean, paint, grease and photograph the parts and do a really nice writup of how he threw them in the trash though...:D
 
Tierfreund said:
DQ has a very nice Euro car. These were never plagued with the EGR and dashpot crap.
No way he´d spoil his beautiful coup with that stuff.
He might clean, paint, grease and photograph the parts and do a really nice writup of how he threw them in the trash though...:D
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And the trash can would be a hand pounded copper bin he found in the back of some shop.
 
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