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Old Jul 20, 2014 | 05:58 PM
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The red line is in that black plastic protector at the back, the air intake is against it, there are many wires running through it crossing to the drivers side from the passenger side. I can see mine exiting that loom, it has a big rubber section connecting it to the black line that goes down to the vacuum canister below the AC unit, if you look back toward the plastic piece you will notice the red line.
 
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Old Jul 20, 2014 | 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by maples01
The red line is in that black plastic protector at the back, the air intake is against it, there are many wires running through it crossing to the drivers side from the passenger side. I can see mine exiting that loom, it has a big rubber section connecting it to the black line that goes down to the vacuum canister below the AC unit, if you look back toward the plastic piece you will notice the red line.
Yeah I had figured it out. It came all the way out. The check valve was not even connected to the reservoir. Going to do the reroute now as soon as I get that acdelco part that's been posted. ac delco #10403762 apparently it's a reservoir with built in check valves. It's a GM part but apparently others have used it.
 
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Old Jul 20, 2014 | 10:37 PM
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Wow, I'm needing to get at it, I plan to tie the red line into the black one going into the cab down there in the passenger floor at the firewall, goes in through the plastic, then I'll T it into a vacuum canister under the dash, no holes to drill.
 
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Old Mar 28, 2015 | 01:42 PM
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E450 Vacuum Leak

When the A/C only worked in defrost mode and after reading here on the forum about the expensive possibilities to have it fixed at the "shop",so I decided on trying the following :
Instead of trying to track down the problem source I purchased a new vac. canister from Ford for $32 and check valve for $8. Added to this was about 15 ft of 1/8" I.Dia vac. tubing plus 5 ft of 3/16" I.Dia.

Total material cost about $50.

Then mounted the vac. canister to the top of fuse box cover, and added the 5' length to it which was then fed along to the check valve. The vac.tube from the manifold was plugged into one of the two remaining check valve outlets, and lastly the 15 ft tubing length was added to the 2nd check valve outlet. Next I fed the 15 ft tubing across the top of the engine compartment then down to the rubber boot that the steering tube runs through. Once inside the cabin the tubing was fed over the top of where the "dog house" sits then forward into the compartment shown in the top of the dash. The original black tube was snipped leaving about 5" from the tubing connector that gathers all the other tubes together. With a 2" piece of heat shrink tubing I made the last connection with the end of the 15 ft and the 5" length coming out of multi tube harness.

Works like a dream, and could have been finished in less than 2-2.5 hours if I wasn't so cautious about "what the Hell" I was doing.

Any comments good or bad happily received.

Ron








 
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