Hey, I'm on the hunt for a flexible tube style vacuum advance line from my OG distributor to my OG carb on my 1949 8BA in my 1949 Ford Custom. The line in the image is kinked/broken.
Mac's sells them, the T-Bird specialty guys sell them, it's just plain steel line with those weird "Ford" nut compression fittings. I bet the Flathead people sell it too. I don't think Ford ever had a part or part #, it was just something they made with a roll of line.
https://www.macsautoparts.com/distr...rass-fittings-at-ends-v8-ford-32-14613-1.html Macs has them made up.
I think he’s talking about using the fittings and leave a small section of line to hook the hose to on each end.
@askforjonny this may help: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/early-ford-original-vacuum-lines.1228831/
I'd cut the ends / nuts off and bend a new line, reuse those nuts and flare. Nickel copper brake line is good to work with.
I have seen lots of them with rubber hose. its called Vacuum Line and you can buy it at any autoparts store.
You could just replace the damaged section of the line with a piece of vacuum hose and call it done. Just cut the hard line with a tubing cutter and de bur it. The engine is stock appearing so you could just set the distributor to the timing mark on the crank pulley which is 2-3* BTDC. The vacuum can on these controls the entire timing curve, there is no centrifugal advance mechanism, the vacuum signal is generated by the venturi in the carb.