Anyone Know the best way to tackle redoing the vacuum lines for my 78 Fj40? I've used the search and looked over all the diagrams + the ones in my manual, but they are very different from what I seem to have. Its the Stock 2f engine also.
I took pictures of what It looked like before I took the carb off, to put in a new header gasket, and figured it shold be easy enough to put it all back where it was... I marked some of the ones that seemed like they might get lost or confused easily, and That was that... However.. as much as I appreciate my friend's eagerness to help, If I had have known he would be rerouting my Vacuum lines to his own special specifications, I woulda kicked him in the nuts before hand. Needless to say, thanks to an eager-to-help friend, my lines are Entirely Messed up with No resemblance of what I had in the pictures...
I'm taking another crack at it tommorrow but I can only come to two conclusions so far: 1) the PO had removed some of the smog equipment and chopped up the lines a bit - Cause it really doesn't match up with the diagrams... or 2) I'm going to need to totally remove all the lines, and redo the whole system.
The second, I wouldn't mind doing, if it wasn't for the fact that all the diagrams are so small/complicated and different from my truck that its going to be impossible to wire it the same way the diagram shows.
I'll get pictures of the before and after here tommorrow... its a damned nightmare.
Whats the best course of action here? Does anyone have any pictures of the same year truck they can share? (i used the search and found 1 or 2, but they are not much help as they are mostly of the passenger side)
I took pictures of what It looked like before I took the carb off, to put in a new header gasket, and figured it shold be easy enough to put it all back where it was... I marked some of the ones that seemed like they might get lost or confused easily, and That was that... However.. as much as I appreciate my friend's eagerness to help, If I had have known he would be rerouting my Vacuum lines to his own special specifications, I woulda kicked him in the nuts before hand. Needless to say, thanks to an eager-to-help friend, my lines are Entirely Messed up with No resemblance of what I had in the pictures...
I'm taking another crack at it tommorrow but I can only come to two conclusions so far: 1) the PO had removed some of the smog equipment and chopped up the lines a bit - Cause it really doesn't match up with the diagrams... or 2) I'm going to need to totally remove all the lines, and redo the whole system.
The second, I wouldn't mind doing, if it wasn't for the fact that all the diagrams are so small/complicated and different from my truck that its going to be impossible to wire it the same way the diagram shows.
I'll get pictures of the before and after here tommorrow... its a damned nightmare.
Whats the best course of action here? Does anyone have any pictures of the same year truck they can share? (i used the search and found 1 or 2, but they are not much help as they are mostly of the passenger side)