Broken carb elbow

This doesn't happen too often.
Tightened the fuel line in and "click".
Brand new elbow and not over tightened.

They just don't make things like they use
to.........But all can't be perfect....I'm always
afraid I will damage one when installing--you always
need that last little twist..

just looking t that metal, looks like it failed a long time ago

I'm working on the '51 8N that I just bought. What a jumble of mechanical ineptitude this tractor has seen in it's lifetime.
I was removing the hood and tried to disconnect the "new" fuel line installed by the seller. It was so tight that my 7/16 open end started to round the fuel line fitting. I tried once more and used a wrench to support the filter fitting. No luck. Finally resorted to vice grips.
I could write a book on all of the s+it I've encountered with this tractor. Nothing major, just poor thought from installing wrong bolts to zip tied spark plugs to the above fuel line.

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Bad/Cold pore from the factory!!?????
You'll see more of that as time goes by......BTDT!!! :twisted:

That one seems to have dif. colored mold material, right at the break?? Also, stress cracks at the break!!!

Brings to mind....a screen falling out of another one like that????
Maybe you didn't remember that???

Gary
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Yep, I remember the screen falling out. If you have found a
good, easy way to re-attach that screen, I'm sure many of us
would love to know about it! I've had some success soldering
them in, but by the time I'm done it's cheaper for me to just
buy a new one.

(quoted from post at 21:39:06 10/25/14) Yep, I remember the screen falling out. If you have found a
good, easy way to re-attach that screen, I'm sure many of us
would love to know about it! I've had some success soldering
them in, but by the time I'm done it's cheaper for me to just
buy a new one.

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I've had good??? results with epoxy on the screen then, after putting the screen back in, twisting the screen in one direction....like screwing a bolt in!!!!

Make sure NOT to over-do it with the epoxy, as if too much is put in the screen...it will plug up the elbow entrance, while it is drying.

YMMV

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It was maybe put on with a line wrench like it was supposed to be. And you should be using one also, not an open end.

Royse,
When installing the elbow strainer into the carb, I put just the fuel line fitting in the elbow, to support the weak center threaded portion.
Sometime I use a big 12-18" adjustable open end wrench, to put the force over the edges of the thread and not just the center threads, which a thinner open end wrench would do.
Using just a open ended wrench that fits the elbow, compress the threaded fuel line threads, and the when installing the fuel line, it can cause the elbow to split like yours, or also have trouble getting the fuel line started.
Have been cutting firewood, with this "Indian summer weather", using the Ford 600 and a JD model "H", spreader, and getting, so big of a load, that the hitch seems to bend, when fully extended. Load is a full cord ( some 12" Red Elm), The spreader wheels in back, put 90 % of the weight, on the tonque. Have spread a lot of manure, with a 8N, by using this weight transfer to the rear wheels. However, it takes a country mile to turn around the trees.
PS at that last Nashville auction, I picked up, a Taurus rear light, 8N fold up seat for my 2N, and doglegs for @N (which I will probably never use) and 3 "Genuine Ford wrenches" (the kind that came with tractor, (I only need 2)

Charles Krammin SW MI

Brass was too hard/brittle. Brass only hardens by
"work hardening". The piece should have been heat-
treated to soften it after rolling and the machining
(drilling, threading, etc.) was finished. Maybe they
do not know that in China.

Sorry, didn't mention that I also tried my line wrench. Had to put an extension on it and it also started to round the hex. That was when I went to vice grips.