Manifold Water Hoses

[ekcourter]

88 2.0 Carb Ranger.
I have a bare 2.0 with cooling fluid plugs in both manifolds. I do not know if I should be using none or some of these connections. I would like to use the intake manifold heater as it's very cold here. If I connected one of these to a hose (I assume It would flow out??) where would I run it?

The passages in the exhaust seen to cool the manifold (sounds like a good idea) but again I have no Idea where to run any hose or hoses I would connect to these two tapped holes (now pluged)??

Will be running stock except for 32/36 Weber electric choke, and no air pump/controls. Thanks

 

[ekcourter]

Manuals call them coolent bypass lines. One end to intake manifold other end to ???

 

[RonD]

Not sure on yours specifically.

But you can "T" both heater hoses.
One "T" needs to be on Engine side of the heat regulator valve.
The reason you need to do both is to have flow regardless of heater inside being on
Because they would be smaller hose diameters you wouldn't notice any change in heater function inside.