Final Answer: Best Carb for a 2lt...34ICT or 40IDF (ignoring all others)

CB is American, why are you surprised they use imperial parts?

 

Original what? Or rather where?

 

I know but it's on a metric vehicle?

 

Americans don’t care about that.

 

Yes, but it presses all my buttons, they can be so blinkered sometimes

 

Sometimes? Always in my experience.

 

Nothing wrong with Unified threads. We used them for a couple of decades, remember ?

 

They do love there thousandths of an inch, not a very accurate thing but it sounds good.

 

Yes, I agree on 60's Triumph, Land Rover or Austin etc, but in a lycheeing VW? Have some empathy, for goodness sake?

 

Your van already has a few VW-original Unified threads in . More if it’s a Devon conversion...

 

Really where? Never needed my AF spanners, it's a Westy btw, lots of cupboards

 

Seat belt bolts are 7/16th UNF

 

They don't count I just did mine and they fit a metric spanner

 

They are indeed.

 

You're quite happy to use NPT fittings. Double-standards, I say ...

 

To be fair, imperial stuff is probably more common than you'd think. I mean who has metric TBF? is it, wheels? I have put AN fittings all over the Bug

 

Yeah, you're right, but....but..... in most cases the usual tool set works. In this case I had to buy an 1/8" Allen key, ow mooch? Not to mention the frustration it caused.....

 

AN are good. Really wide variety of fittings.

Your Saturday night quiz question: what does AN stand for? No Googling...

 

I think it's Army and Navy, but then I fell for the BNC joke at college, like getting a long stand so I am probably well off the mark.

 

'Tis indeed (US) Army and Navy.

I think BNC are another American invention (out of Bell Labs?). Nowt to do with our Navy.