Mark, I have looked quite a bit for that 361 type bulkhead fitting, where can I get 1? Also I don't think my 8500 has that type duckbill looking fitting on it? Whats the best way to get the reed valve out & the cylinder off? Yes I got the bolts out but damn that stuff is glued - stuck on good. I have rapped it several times & seems its on permanent.
Ah, there is the problem, finding those fittings from a junk 361.
I posted this fuel line remedy years ago and we have a member here who runs his on machine shop business who stepped up to the plate and offered to duplicate those fittings for a very low price. He only wanted to help out and had no time or desire to distribute them.
So I invested quite a bit of my money and time to take the lot of fittings he made and distributed them to the members here, and giving the machinist credit, he let me take them from him in two lots to keep my out of pocket expense down that way. I made nothing to speak of off this, they were basically sold and shipped at cost.
All the ones available have been distributed and I have just a few left for myself.
Several members were asking about these some time back and the machinists contacted me in January and said he had a lull going and if needed he could make up another run of these fittings, but I told him I was working too much and didn't have time to fool with them.
I gave him a members name who had been asking about them who I thought might take over the investment and distribution this time and that is the last I have heard about it.
If you guys want to get together and pony up some money and get a batch made up, I'm pretty sure it could happen again. Might take a bit of time if he's back to being busy.