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jlaird

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Some kind of a brass coupling that goes to the carb for the vacume advance. I have the other end and the 1/8 inch copper line but know not what the fitting on the carb is or looks like? This would me a male peice that actually goes int the carb throttle body and somehow hooks to the 1/8 inch line.
 
Jack it could be a union fitting.Is the end you have a female nut/olive or flare?
I'm not sure you can get union parts,I think they come complete.And to be absolutely useless,I haven't a clue where you'd get such a thing. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

Stuart. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
 
FWIW, if the connection shown in the pic is like yours then it is also on TRs of the same era, possibly many other SUs -- so you might widen your search.

I cannot recall for sure if the line had an olive on the end or just a flare... though I am thinking it was flared. As noted, the connector itself is just a really small compression fitting.

If originality is not the issue, one could thread into the carb body a bit of small brass tubing, the couple it and the line with a short length of rubber tubing (I think that is more or less how Stromberg carbs make this connection).


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jack are you sure its not one of the fuel line fittings? VB catalog page 84?
 
Noop, that's it in the Pic. The other end has a rubber L shaped fitting that the copper tube just slipes into.

Is that not a strange fitting and it even goes in the front carb. Bet that's going to be a bear to find. Hmm, maybe the folks that rebuild carbs. Will try them.

Hap where are you??


Guess I will check in Tonys store house next week as well, I hope.
 
""""Noop, that's it in the Pic. """""

Is this an SU ? most of them have a pressed in tube about .150" od. for ported vacuum take of.

If your carb body is threaded then measure the id of the hole as a start. Do you have a thread pitch guage that is narro enough to go in the hole?

Are you striving for originality? If not, epoxy a tube in the carb body...the thread will probably something goofy.
 
Guess I will go to my favorate parts house and see if I can find something to fit it and will get two.
 
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I believe that Hap's on vacation this week.

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Hap is at the SCCA Runoffs in Topeka, KS this week supporting Ron Bartell's H Production Spridget. He'll likely return to the board when he gets home early next week.

Tim
 
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