from the intake manifold.
It's a constant source such as the intake manifold or the base of the carburetor.
It is a vacuum tree. One line will be for the transmission modulator, One is for the Air Conditioner reservior tank and the last is the vacuum sensor in the thermostat housing.
the vacuum comes from the intake manifold
Atmospheric pressure
Gravity and vacuum. The air flow into the engine creates a vacuum that sucks the metered fuel from the carburetor into the intake manifold and from there through the intake valves into the combustion chamber where it is ignited by the spark plugs.
you need manifold vacuum. Either on one of the intake runners or at the base of the carb.
No because this will not be the proper signal from manifold vacuum that tells the transmission what kind of throttle position and load the engine is under.
There will be a vacuum hose that comes from the brake booster and hooks to the biggest port on the back of the carburetor. There is a vacuum hose that will come from the vacuum advance on the distributor and hook to the left small vacuum port on the front bottom of the carburetor. If you look at the front center of the carburetor at the bottom of it you will see a big vacuum port. The PCV valve hose will hook there and go in the top of a valve cover, should be driverside front. If it is a auto-matic transmission then there will be a long vacuum hose that is hooked to the modulator valve on the passenger side of the transmission and will go to a vacuum tee that you will see on the back of the intake manifold right behind the carburetor. Now I know there are other things on the engine that have to do with emissions but I long as you do not have to have it inspected you can disregaurd the rest of the stuff. The things that I told you about up above is all that you need to hook up to make this engine run good. All the other open vacuum ports can just be pluged off. I hope I've helped you. NEUTZ.
The Vacuum line for an automatic transmission runs from the modulator valve on the rear of the transmission to a vacuum port on the intake of the engine. Any available port will do as long as it is on the intake, not the carburetor if so equipped.
the brake vacuum booster connects to the intake manifold all by itself and the PCV valve hose should hook directly to your carburetor.
You did not say what you were working on and that would help. Now I do know that it has to go to a direct vacuum source like the base of a carburetor or the intake manifold vacuum port.
It needs to be attached to a full time vacuum source such as a port on the intake manifold.