Atrus
Jedi Warrior
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Hey all, I recently received my distributor back from Jeff at Advance (which looks and feels great!!!). One of the issues I had was that I snapped the vacuum line right at the nut on the vacuum advance. So, I am in need of a 1/8” capillary tube with a compression fitting or barb to seal it up and hold it in the advance mechanism. Any ideas on where to get this?
I contacted Jeff Zorn at LB Car Co, he didn’t think they were available. He did give me a few part numbers for some plastic pieces that he thinks may be a replacement. I can post the three numbers he gave later on today if you’d want to see them. Has anyone experienced this – replacing the brass hardware with some aftermarket plastic pieces? They were cheap, less than $5 for the lot, so I may give it a shot.
Lastly, at worse, the car will run fine with this disconnected for now, right? I’d like to get this in and get it running to see if the old dizzy was the reason I could never get it right. I am fairly sure that was the reason. If I remember correctly, the vacuum advance will really just affect gas mileage at cruising speeds.
I contacted Jeff Zorn at LB Car Co, he didn’t think they were available. He did give me a few part numbers for some plastic pieces that he thinks may be a replacement. I can post the three numbers he gave later on today if you’d want to see them. Has anyone experienced this – replacing the brass hardware with some aftermarket plastic pieces? They were cheap, less than $5 for the lot, so I may give it a shot.
Lastly, at worse, the car will run fine with this disconnected for now, right? I’d like to get this in and get it running to see if the old dizzy was the reason I could never get it right. I am fairly sure that was the reason. If I remember correctly, the vacuum advance will really just affect gas mileage at cruising speeds.