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Thank you Franklin, I took the air pump off, that being said can I strip off all the vacuum lines and go back with just the essentials-brake booster-heater controls-distributor? what does that EGR plate under the carb do and can I just leave the vacuum line off it with no effect?
They all do something. They all will have some affect when you pull them off.
Pull the EGR stuff off and you might have some pinging, especially in the summer. You can look up egr on google and see what it does and why it was put on there.
Pull the vacuum lines off the aircleaner and it might be cold natured and not want to run very well when it gets cold.
Leave the vacuum lines for the crankcase PCV system, they keep the engine clean inside.
If you take off some of the lines to the bowl vent you might get a gas smell under the hood.
Dave, I know I may have come across kind of stupid, and sometimes I can be, and I take no offense, I was vague. I would never run without a PCV. I was just thinking that there is vacuum lines running all over the place and to the top of the aircleaner. I think old school which sometimes is good and sometimes not so much. I was just thinking, besides the PCV, can I get away with the basics-brake booster-vacuum advance-vacuum to the heater/AC controls and the vacuum canister? I hadn't thought of the gas canister but that shouldn't be hard to deal with either. Thanks, really, Ward
Short answer, no. I don't know what to say other than what I said in the first post. Each vacuum line has a job to do, and will have some impact on the way the engine runs. Some you probably can deal with, some you probably cannot. You just have to realize what each one did, and what's going to happen when you take it off.
We can go each vacuum line one by one and talk about it, if we can recognize which one it is(pictures) and if I or someone else knows what it's for. Some of them I don't know, but there are people on here who do.
Dave that sounds great! I would really appreciate the help that way. I have got it running very good now with a bunch of lines deleted but I would like it to be right, I was just at wits end trying to figure them out and the PO had stuff capped and running no where, that's when I stated thinking about getting rid of all but the basics. It has electric choke so that wasn't a problem.
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