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Hey All,
Picked up a pretty clean '77 a couple weekends ago; it's got some bad cancer in the rear crossmember and the typical spots above the running boards, but otherwise the tub is in pretty good shape. There's a fair amount of sunburn on the hood, but paint elsewhere seems to shine right up with a little elbow grease.
Inside is surprisingly immaculate, only one small tear in the driver's seat vinyl, jump seats don't look like they were ever sat on (although the canvas keeper straps are sun-rotted). The Toyota CB and stock AM radio seem to work just fine. It's got 46K original miles, and what appear to be the original headlights and spare tire.
Compression is good across the board and there aren't any leaks that I can see. It seems a little gutless, but that may be because I'm used to my '75 with JimC carb/header/no emissions.
It does have a piercing whistle that I'm assuming to be a vacuum leak. Someone suggested that the brake booster is a prime culprit, but when I isolated the booster, the whistling continued, albeit somewhat modified.
Anyone have any suggestions on tracking this down? There's a lot of spaghetti draped over the engine, and super-stock as this thing may be, I'm tempted to take a weed-whacker to it all so I can actually see the parts underneath...
Here's a few pics...
Picked up a pretty clean '77 a couple weekends ago; it's got some bad cancer in the rear crossmember and the typical spots above the running boards, but otherwise the tub is in pretty good shape. There's a fair amount of sunburn on the hood, but paint elsewhere seems to shine right up with a little elbow grease.
Inside is surprisingly immaculate, only one small tear in the driver's seat vinyl, jump seats don't look like they were ever sat on (although the canvas keeper straps are sun-rotted). The Toyota CB and stock AM radio seem to work just fine. It's got 46K original miles, and what appear to be the original headlights and spare tire.
Compression is good across the board and there aren't any leaks that I can see. It seems a little gutless, but that may be because I'm used to my '75 with JimC carb/header/no emissions.
It does have a piercing whistle that I'm assuming to be a vacuum leak. Someone suggested that the brake booster is a prime culprit, but when I isolated the booster, the whistling continued, albeit somewhat modified.
Anyone have any suggestions on tracking this down? There's a lot of spaghetti draped over the engine, and super-stock as this thing may be, I'm tempted to take a weed-whacker to it all so I can actually see the parts underneath...Here's a few pics...
