After checking my truck this morning, I have found that my heater stove pipe is rotted away. I read somewhere else that I could use this kit from Autozone (Help/Choke stove kit (03840) | | AutoZone.com) to fix it, but it said to strap the dome down to a header tube. Just one problem. I don't have headers. I have the stock manifolds with the hot air port on them. So after a little more looking on Autozone's website, I found this kit (Help/Choke heater tube kit (76850) | Choke Kit | AutoZone.com). This kit looks like it would fit, but where does all that line go, and where does each one of those fittings attach to? I know the goldish hexagon one on the right attaches to the choke, but were do the rest of them go? Also, is it common for the fresh air tube to be rotted out when the hot air tube is gone as well? How does the hot air tube even connect to the manifold anyway?

And for my final question (for right now at least), if I swap in an all electric choke, would I even need to replace these tubes?

 

The choke tube goes into the intake manifold not exhaust. It's a small spot directly under the choke on the carb.

If you get an electric choke you shouldn't need the choke tube

 

Did you read the write-up I linked where we last discussed this? It answers all those questions - that's why I wrote it. Read through this before we discuss anything further.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/8...-answered.html

If you switch to an all-electric choke, then you don't need a stove. Note in that case that you can NOT replace it with a factory "electric assist" choke because they still relied on the stove to heat them up to a certain point, and then the electric assist did not kick in until the choke got past a certain temperature. If you want a fully electric choke; you would need to go aftermarket. Holley and Edelbrock make electric choke conversions for their carburetors that look like they would fit a Motorcraft, but I've never actually tried it to see.