1982 Engine Dress Up
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1982 Engine Dress Up
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I am looking to clean up the engine bay. I have a couple questions. I have a stock air cleaner intake setup. It has two vacum lines outa the top and one that goes into the valve cover/oil filler. Can I install a chrome air cleaner from lmc truck and ditch the vacumn lines? Also it looks as if the valve covers are leaking oil. Should I replace those or pull mine off and clean then and get a new gasket? Any other ideas for making it look a little nicer? Thanks,
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I am looking to clean up the engine bay. I have a couple questions. I have a stock air cleaner intake setup. It has two vacum lines outa the top and one that goes into the valve cover/oil filler. Can I install a chrome air cleaner from lmc truck and ditch the vacumn lines? Also it looks as if the valve covers are leaking oil. Should I replace those or pull mine off and clean then and get a new gasket? Any other ideas for making it look a little nicer? Thanks,
Evan
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Thats not really a vacuum line. It's the fresh air intake for the PCV system. You can replace that whole assembly with a new breather type oil cap. A breather oil cap has a filter in it that lets it draw clean air into the crankcase. You sholuld be able to get one at any parts store for less than $10. As far as the valve covers go, just get new better quality gaskets. Give the valve covers and other areas of the engine you can reach a good cleaning and fresh coat of paint and it will look good without breaking the bank.
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The better valve cover gaskets will have locating tabs that line up with the notches in your valve cover. The cheapy ones dont. I went with an aftermarket air cleaner so I had to go away from the PVC fresh air intake cap. I bought a chrome vented cap I think it was 7 bucks. Make sure you get a vented cap or you'll be blowing out your new valve cover gaskets and/or blowing oil out your dipstick hole due to too much crank case pressure (which is caused by not enough venting if you eliminate the OE vented cap and don't replace it with a similar venting type).
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Hey,
I am looking to clean up the engine bay. I have a couple questions. I have a stock air cleaner intake setup. It has two vacum lines outa the top and one that goes into the valve cover/oil filler. Can I install a chrome air cleaner from lmc truck and ditch the vacumn lines? Also it looks as if the valve covers are leaking oil. Should I replace those or pull mine off and clean then and get a new gasket? Any other ideas for making it look a little nicer? Thanks,
Evan
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I am looking to clean up the engine bay. I have a couple questions. I have a stock air cleaner intake setup. It has two vacum lines outa the top and one that goes into the valve cover/oil filler. Can I install a chrome air cleaner from lmc truck and ditch the vacumn lines? Also it looks as if the valve covers are leaking oil. Should I replace those or pull mine off and clean then and get a new gasket? Any other ideas for making it look a little nicer? Thanks,
Evan
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If you are going to be driving this truck in the winter, I do not recommend you take the factory aircleaner off. Leave the small vacuum lines hooked up and make sure the flexible pipe that goes from underneath the aircleaner snorkel to the exhaust manifold is in place. When you first start the truck when it's cold out, run out and make sure the flapper door in the aircleaner is shut and drawing warm air up from the exhaust manifold pipe. If you try to run it in the cold winter months with a chrome aircleaner, it will run terrible and you will hate driving it.
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I haven't changed anything yet. But I was wondering about this. When I start the truck after its been sitting overnight i have to keep reving the engine till it warms up and idles on its own is this normal?
I was told after I reinstall the carb to turn the little thing on the side till the flap on the carb is closed. I never did this cause I couldn't get it to close. Also the idle seems low I dont have a tach so I don't know for sure. But how would I speed up the idle and do I need to try and adjust the flap again?
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I was told after I reinstall the carb to turn the little thing on the side till the flap on the carb is closed. I never did this cause I couldn't get it to close. Also the idle seems low I dont have a tach so I don't know for sure. But how would I speed up the idle and do I need to try and adjust the flap again?
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The flap thing is your choke, and yes, you ned to get that adjusted correctly. When adjusted properly it will also control the position of the fast idle cam on the other side of the carb. Once that is adjusted correctly you can tweak the idle speed with the idle adjusting screws that but up on the cam.
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