I am in the final legs of hooking up all the hoses and wires in the brat before we can fire it up. The ONE thing holding me up is the fuel line. The brat has a supply and return. The weber has a supply and thats it. I can extend the lines to reach the weber no problem... but... As I did on my 87 GL I wish to do on this car:

 

What I did:

 

Run the large fuel supply line to a METAL T-fitting with a large output TO the weber and a small branch off to the return line. THat way whatever doesnt fit into the large line(and the carb) is forced back into the return line. Works very well on my GL.

 

I got my last one from the parts bin at my university autoshop. I no longer work there so I dont have that luxury. Mine came off a little daihatsu truck... well now where can I find a T fitting?? (preferibly with one side of the Y being smaller) I was thinking maybe a hydraulic supply place? All the stuff at the auto parts store is plastic and made for PCV of vac lines.

 

Maybe a brass fitting or something from home depot?? (I've never seen any with 2 large and 1 small fitting though)

 

Can I ditch the return line??? (its on an EA81 gen 2 brat)

Mike just get in touch with me cause I might have a few hitatchi's sittin around that you can have the fittings off of in fact if I get to redoing that weber that I have I would give you the fitting on the 83 after I switched carbies but still I might have a few floating around thanks to Andrew for giving me alot of stuff including like 5 or so hitatchi's in various states of dismantlement

Mike, Jason is right on this one. You are trying to complicate an easy install.

 

 

Everything you need to adapt a Weber is on your Hitachi. Including the linkage set up.

 

Using the fitting from the Hitachi takes care of the inlet and overflow hoses for the carb. The vent line from the canister is left unhooked. Plugging this will cause a vapor lock condition.

 

NOTE; If your Weber's fitting isn't threaded you will need to get a 1/8 NPT tap and thread the inlet hole. The tap will follow the hole so it should be almost impossible the make a mistake threading it. Make sure you use teflon tape or similar sealant when installing the fitting.

 

Good luck!!

 

Everything you need to adapt a Weber is on your Hitachi.

Good luck!!

He's got a Carter Webber not a Hatichi, Mike just go to a U-pullit and get the fitting.

it should still have a return line on it which he can do the same thing. I can't quite remember HOW the Carter is set up since its been about a year and a hlaf since I looked at the one I had but there's no need to fear Mike, try a hobby store that sells gas powered RC cars, they should have something like they did for mine. I got a hole on the little itty bitty line inside the Carter-Weber on my '83 hatchback and no one had a line that would fit BUT a hobby store. So my suggestion is to try them:D You probably would have never thought of that and I'm surprised I did!

For my fuel lines I found cheap brass fittings at cornerhardware.com (shipping costs far exceed the part cost but all the auto/hardware stores I looked at had a subset of what I wanted)

I will try the Jason method first

 

The sooner I get this up and running and over to the new house the sooner I can let you borrow the welder for a day or 2.

 

THe carter weber has a pretty much integral fuel line Y fitting, it has the same fitting type as the front brake lines (called a banjo fitting maybe??) anyway it wouldnt work on my weber so old hitachi's are gonna be my first way to try it.

 

Ken, I assume the vent like is the one line that comes from the fuel filter/separatior or whatever it is... area (where you have the arrow) and goes to the vapor canistor?? I was considering ditching the canistor, but I dont really need the space for anything at this time so its just sitting there with the vent line and nothing else hooked up for now. Maybe I'll stick vac plugs on the little metal lines coming off it just to make things neater. I could remove em, but I feel a little better leaving it there so things look a little more "legal"

The return line goes to the filter(top hose). The vent line goes back to the tank. If you plug the lines you will experience vapor lock type problems. If you want to keep the canister then leave the fittings open or run dumby lines to no where.

ok so I guess I'll leave em open. I'll run the little line next to the carb as a return and the big one as supply off the hitachi T fitting.

Hey Mike are you wanting one of mine? or is that one Hitatchi you have in that box have the fitting you are lookin for?

One of yours, the hitachi in my box doesn't appear to have the fitting (I looked for it and couldnt find it)