Let me start off by saying I know little to nothing about car specifics but I do trust in my ability to take things apart and put them back together. Just not a "car guy". Anyway, I've been working on rebuilding my Rochester E2SE (17084534) and in the process of removing the mounting nuts I managed to break the line that runs to the primary vacuum breaker assembly. The part that I happened to break is part of a vacuum line "harness" and I am clueless as to where to find a replacement or what to even search for. I've included a picture with the part of the line that i broke circled. any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Head down to your local auto parts store. Look around for the rack of vacuum couplers, rubber hoses, etc. You're looking for the purple Dorman packages. One of those packages will contain a roll of semi-hard plastic vacuum line.

Cut a piece to length, if it needs any sharp bends, a little heat (hair dryer, heat gun, boiling water) will soften the tube, hold it in the shape you need until it cools, or quench with a rag soaked in cold water. The old line will pull out of the rubber fittings, push the new line in, and you're done.

 

Thank you so much for your advice Drew! I'll give it a shot and post back with how things turn out

 

That's about it.

You can get alot of those rubber fittings hanging on those cards where the plastic line is. Not all always, but you can often get lucky. You can change the size of plastic line a size or 2 for alot of them, to fit the fittings available, as well.

You can also replace the plastic lines and their fittings completely with rubber line, if it's the same size at both ends, and doesn't have to conform to sharp bends or anything like that.