Help with vacuum lines
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Help with vacuum lines
Ok, sold my '87 GXL to a fellow racer, he's replaced the motor, but there are 3 nipples for vacuum lines on the bottom of the intake, can't figure out where they go to. I'm useless on this, figured I'd ask you guys. Any help? Thanks!
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Ok so your in luck because its a real easy fix, the right and left tubes can be blocked off, im saying this because that part of my car hasd never been modified and mine are blocked off, so my suggestion would be to do that, and for the middle tube, it goes up to this white piece ( only white piece in the picture) and on that same white piece there is a second tube that leads to a green piece, sorry for using the word "piece" so much im still learning. But this information should be everything you need to fix the problem you addressed, hope i helped!
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Ok so I don't remember where all of them go but I can help with at least one. On the throttle body directly above these nipples is the (yellowish in your pic) plastic piece with two nipples on it. It helps to control warm up idle and the two secondary (choke) butterflys. Connect a vacuum hose from one of the three nipples on the intake runner up to one of the nipples on the plastic vacuum switch (which is controlled by coolant temp that runs thru it) then take another hose with the green and black one way valve and connect it to the vacuum motor on the front of the throttle body. Its right on the front next to the intake elbow, it has one nipple on it for vacuum and then the arm connects to the secondary (choke or cold start) butterflys that block off the secondary intake butterflys when the engine is cold.
I hope that made sense, I'm sorry I can't take pics or tell you where the other two nipples go but I no longer have an s4 motor to check it on.
I hope that made sense, I'm sorry I can't take pics or tell you where the other two nipples go but I no longer have an s4 motor to check it on.
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Yeah, I was wrong.
One goes to the plastic outfit called a water thermovalve (see non tubo FSM, please). The water thermovalve controls the double throttle diaphram on the fwd side of the throttle body. Double throttle diaphram closes the outer set of secondary throttle plates when the engine is COLD. Those plates are spring loaded to open is the double throttle diaphram fails (all I've seen are in the failure mode i.e. the diaphram inside is shot).
Water thermovalve is plastic and has two vacuum nipples. One goes to one of the nipples in your picture and the other thermovalve nipple gets a vac hose and the other end gets attached to the nipple on the double throttle diaphram.
One came capped on my used cars. The other can go to the cruise control motor (vacuum operated on a series four non turbo).
One goes to the plastic outfit called a water thermovalve (see non tubo FSM, please). The water thermovalve controls the double throttle diaphram on the fwd side of the throttle body. Double throttle diaphram closes the outer set of secondary throttle plates when the engine is COLD. Those plates are spring loaded to open is the double throttle diaphram fails (all I've seen are in the failure mode i.e. the diaphram inside is shot).
Water thermovalve is plastic and has two vacuum nipples. One goes to one of the nipples in your picture and the other thermovalve nipple gets a vac hose and the other end gets attached to the nipple on the double throttle diaphram.
One came capped on my used cars. The other can go to the cruise control motor (vacuum operated on a series four non turbo).
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