So the guy who had this before me tried replacing some of the vaccume hoses. But instead of trying to cut them the correct length he just left them really long. I never noticed this as they were tucked behind the alternator and, more importantly, wrapped around a coolent hose.

Well, to make a long story short, at one point along the collection of hoses they started to melt and fuse together. Well a hole developed between the coolent hose and some of the vaccume lines. By the way there are the ones that go directly into the manifold.

Well, I took the vaccume hoses off cut off the bad parts and cut them to length and reinstalled. The coolent hose still has a small leak which I'm going to fix later.

Good news!!! Now I know my engine does not need to be rebuilt!

 

That's weird...!

 

Tell me about it. But it was a HUGE releif when I found it. It was the coolent hose going to the BAC by the way.