Because I live in a small town with crappy auto parts stores annd teeny tiny small town dealers that don't keep anything in stock. I can bend my own line just as easily, at least I could if I could figure out what size and style the damn fitting is. It's a simple flippin part to make, I'm completely flabbergasted that nobody knows this and I can't find the info anywhere on the web. There's got to be 20 million of these carbs out there.
The main thing I need to know is the style of the fitting, it looks like some type of flared fitting, but I don't know the angle or the the thread style. It's easy to find out the size of the actual inlet, those are 7/8"x20tpi for 74 and earlier, 1"x20tpi 75 and later. But there's a fitting that screws into that that has the filter in it. That fitting is female and has a flare in it, but the flare is backwards of what a normal compression fitting has, it looks like a really ibg brake line fitting. It may be a 37 degree flare, if it is then I have the tool to make that flare on tubing. I remember that my old q-jet had a flared metal tube that was screwed into the part like a brake line screws in. I have a brass piece that is probably from the old one, but no tube anymore.
Screw it, I'll just go to the hardware store with my carb like a dope and sift through their fittings. I hate it when I have to do that. Plus dragging a pristine and freshly rebuilt carb all over hell and back is a great way to F it all up.
