tarheel365 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:11:ok i have nothing connected to my bowl vent hose connections on my carb.
Why in the world would the previous owner remove them? Dumb.
Quote:i also have the tube with a spring around it goin to the vacuum connector on the carb and one tube connected to the normal fuel connector on the carb.
Did you put it there? I'm guessing because of what you said in your last paragraph.
Quote:in the pictures there are hoses connected to the vent connections. do i need these?
That must have been what the previous owner thought too. Yes, you need those. Don't need gass sloshing out, or bugs, water and dirt getting in.
Quote:and if i do...where the hell do they go?
Go back to the pics again. They go up above the carb (like in one photo) and stick into the hollow in the frame on each side of that "black box thingy" (actually the decompression module)
Quote:i think the previous owner just attached the vacuum hose to the bowl vent on the left side instead of reattaching it to its proper place on the right side.
Really cool. So you've been riding around with carb nipples sucking air. At least now we know why the petc0ck didn't work right.