[Fot] Cutting Aeroquip Hoses..

[Brad Kahler]

Susan's spitfire came with AN fittings in the float bowl covers.  A P.O. 
had drilled and tapped for a pipe thread and screwed AN fittings in.  
Been working well for a long time now.

Brad
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> Tony Drews wrote:
>> The only place that my aeroquip uses the tacky and possibly dangerous 
>> hose clamps is to connect the line to the carb.  Even the aeroquip 
>> rollover fuel cell vent line has an AN fitting.  So, pretend for a 
>> moment that I don't have the Carrol Smith books covering this...  How 
>> the hell do you attach an AN fitting to a SU carb?  (of course, you 
>> have to pretend I'm running SU's too... :)  )  For the Webers, I'm 
>> sure an appropriate fitting is available - I just need to do the 
>> right thing and find it.  At least the Webers' press on fittings have 
>> a bulb at the end to help prevent the lines from blowing off.  For 
>> the SU's, though, the top of the float bowl is a somewhat fragile 
>> thing.  The only thing that comes to mind is to somehow remove the 
>> tube that sticks out for the fuel line to attach to (how?), and tap 
>> the hole for a fitting.  I'm not sure that it would be stronger when 
>> done (vibration will crack the top of the float bowl?), but I'm ready 
>> to be convinced.  (don't worry, I'm not being defensive)
>>
>> - Tony