Am I missing vacuum lines?
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Am I missing vacuum lines?
I have been wanting to try and clean up a bit of shade tree hacks done to my motor and first on the list would be the vacuum lines. I have a loud hiss I can hear over the engine but will stop when I put even the slightest bit of pressure on the brakes.
Looking at various diagrams (which are tough to distinguish honestly) and comparing to my setup, there looks to be a lot missing. But possibly not, just routed differently? Photo of my engine bay below shows as it is now. The vacuum advance looks to hook right up to the carb which I was mainly wondering about. My eye catches the yellow and nearby gray fittings that are bare.
Looking at various diagrams (which are tough to distinguish honestly) and comparing to my setup, there looks to be a lot missing. But possibly not, just routed differently? Photo of my engine bay below shows as it is now. The vacuum advance looks to hook right up to the carb which I was mainly wondering about. My eye catches the yellow and nearby gray fittings that are bare.
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Looking at various diagrams (which are tough to distinguish honestly) and comparing to my setup, there looks to be a lot missing. But possibly not, just routed differently? Photo of my engine bay below shows as it is now. The vacuum advance looks to hook right up to the carb which I was mainly wondering about. My eye catches the yellow and nearby gray fittings that are bare.
I can't really tell from your picture, but is one of the vacuum connections on your carb unused and not capped? There are three barbs on the front of your carb...one connected ignition advance, one to PCV, and the 3rd one (driver's side) looks like it is unused? Is it open?
I'm no expert...just looking over your pictures.
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I was leaning towards the aftermarket carb handling whatever needed vacuum lines all on it's own. I will check to make sure any are capped that look to be open.
The yellow and gray ports, they look like temperature controlled valves being ported off the coolant neck, that right? I could cap them just for brevity but don't think they are actually sucking air.
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I do need to drain fluids since I never did since I bought it. I would only drive it on the weekends here and there but recently did daily it on the highway for a week while my other car was getting new coils and VVT solenoid. During that week of daily driving, I knew I need to get in under the hood and so some basic maintenance.
New engine build is in the works and hopefully by end of the year Dan will get a new motor and transmission. So just enough to keep him running till then.
New engine build is in the works and hopefully by end of the year Dan will get a new motor and transmission. So just enough to keep him running till then.
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Good old Clark Count Washington doesn't require emissions on vehicles 25 years and older.
I was leaning towards the aftermarket carb handling whatever needed vacuum lines all on it's own. I will check to make sure any are capped that look to be open.
The yellow and gray ports, they look like temperature controlled valves being ported off the coolant neck, that right? I could cap them just for brevity but don't think they are actually sucking air.
I was leaning towards the aftermarket carb handling whatever needed vacuum lines all on it's own. I will check to make sure any are capped that look to be open.
The yellow and gray ports, they look like temperature controlled valves being ported off the coolant neck, that right? I could cap them just for brevity but don't think they are actually sucking air.
That is all I have hooked up on my 81 F100, oh and the charcoal canisters to vent the fuel tank & carb bowl vapors.
The yellow & gray temp controlled valves don't need to be capped as you don't have any vacuum supply to them.
As someone pointed out if you don't like the looks of them sticking out like that when you have the cooling system drained pull them and install a threaded pipe plug.
Dave ----
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You also don't need to hook up the canisters at this time and would not till you et it running good then go back and hook it up.
My canisters are not hooked up to use a valve as per the radiator sticker. I went right to the top of the PCV port by passing the valve.
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I can't really tell from your picture, but is one of the vacuum connections on your carb unused and not capped? There are three barbs on the front of your carb...one connected ignition advance, one to PCV, and the 3rd one (driver's side) looks like it is unused? Is it open?
That diaphragm at the end of the riser / spacer thing.
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That thing at the bottom of the picture. Does it have a little lever coming out near the hood hinge that you can move back and forth? If so, that is your inside air/outside air damper actuator. When you put the A/C controls on "max", vacuum gets put on this actuator and it recirculates inside air instead of pulling in outside air with the fan.
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That thing at the bottom of the picture. Does it have a little lever coming out near the hood hinge that you can move back and forth? If so, that is your inside air/outside air damper actuator. When you put the A/C controls on "max", vacuum gets put on this actuator and it recirculates inside air instead of pulling in outside air with the fan.
From my inspection, everything looks taken care of minus that diaphragm thing. From what I can find on diagrams, it's an anti-stall dashpot?
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Sounds like a vacuum leak in the power brake booster. Squeeze the rubber vacuum hose attached to the booster [use needle nose pliers] and if the hissing sound stops, then you will know the source.