New life for an old pig...

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Here are a couple pics of the PO desmog attempts. Unfortunately he decided to crimp/ weld or shove crap in/plug the orig. air cleaner, I had hoped to use some rubber caps I have seen others use. I decided to stay with this air cleaner and valve cover as per Jim C's advise (lower profile, etc.). We'll see, I may just leave it as is, it seems to work. The last pic is of some other caps I found to plug some vacuum ports. These work great.
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I have to plug one of the holes on the dist. cap, which I did with one of those handy rubber vacuum caps. The other is connected to the base of the carb with vacuum hose. The last should be left open to air/vent. I picked up some goodies (sm. filter, brass barb fitting, sm. clamp, vacuum hose) from NAPA and will be attaching this to the opening on the dist. cap and finding a place in the engine compartment to attach and then vent/pull clean air. I'll post a pic when I finish.

I got this idea from Guyute on the Cascade Cruiser forum.

I also need to re-tourque the head bolts and other items here and there. I still need to toss the flywheel cover on. Should re-adjust the valves again. I also need to address my taillight/blinker issues. Then perhaps upgrade the brakes, suspension, and steering, and, and, and.
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n2666s said:
Carlos, impressive...........who made your rack?

Lou
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Hey Lou, the towers, bars, and 'basket' were all made by Yakima. I used to work for an outdoor retailer and got a great deal on it all. I usually toss all our light stuff up top and tie it down with a cargo net. It's lightweight but works great.
 
have gone round and round with MAF......they have no plans for making any more rear bumpers like Lily's.......maybe if enough ppl. ask about them they just might :)

Lou
 
Just a quick follow up.

I still have not figured out exactly what to disconnect and what to leave under the hood for the desmog. I finall sent Jim C. a note to ask for help. If anyone else has any advice let me know. I have posted what has been done up to this point earlier in the thread. I am basically still confused on some of the vac. lines and whether or not I need to remove some sorta 'emissions computer' and where is it? The truck runs OK but is sluggish. I know I have some vac/exhaust issues still to figure out. Anybody else do a desmog? Any ideas on the vac lines and such?

I thought I would also post up pics of the latest in the desmog/engine work.

Pic 1- My pinky is pointing to the opening in the dist. I capped and my other finger is pointing to the vac line/air I vented through a filter...

Pic 2- I stretched the vac line from the dist. to a clip I mounted to the radiator and connected it to a small air filter. I saw this idea from fellow mudder Guyute's desmog write-up. Seems to work and is slick.
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I am also wrestling with front/rear turn signals and a rear brake light that won't work. I am still reading threads on this stuff but if anyone has any advice, again feel free to chime in anytime.

I swapped out some bulbs with new ones to see if that would help the situation-no dice. I also ckecked fuses-everything looks good. Do these 'ol pigs have light relays? If so, where?




Pics of my new stash of replacement bulbs (for both piggies)...

...and check out the newish-looking horn button I scored off Ebay. It really sets off the interior, one of the last final missing interior links. :)
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I found some details about a bunch of the smog-related stuff on the driver's side of the engine bay. My freakin' Haynes manual ended up being the most help-strange. It had specific details for my rig's emissions as well as good diagrams, info/explanations, pictures, etc. about each part. Glad I found that.

I ended up removing the Vacuum Surge Tank and both VSV's (they were mounted to the top of the Vacuum Surge Tank) as well as all the vac hoses that were connected to them. I also removed the VCV's that were mounted on top of the thermo. housing. This left me with a few more vac ports to plug. I used some small rubber/plastic vac plugs to cap off the diaphram on the carb, the BVSV connected to the thermo. housing, and then I set up another mini-filter to the charcoal canister.

I then took it for a spin and it did seem a bit better. I think I have other issues I need to decipher now, but that is another post.

Please post up advice/ideas still if you have any. Suggestions always welcome.

Pic 1- Here is the Vacuum Surge Tank, VSV's (bottom of pic) assorted vac lines, and I am pointing to the end of the charcoal canister I vented.
Pic 2- Pointing to the VCV's I wound up removing.
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Well, I have recently parked Lily back in the garage. :(

I have been driving her around town occassionally and have slowly had the confidence to drive on the highway and really rev the engine. The rig seems peppy around town and initially I was very pleased. However, I have been experiencing some problems trying to rev the engine in 3rd and 4th gear-seems to bog down/has loss of power. I have been trying to figure out the proper desmog for this application and have been edu-ma-cating myself about all that. I suspect some vacleaks and maybe an exhaust leak at the header. I have a thread about desmog questions in the 60's forum currently. That has been slowly helping. Unfortunately I have not heard back from Jim C, I may send him another email asking for specific advice/info on my set up.

I am nervous about the engine and do not want to run/damage it more than I have to. I am begining to wonder if I am not running lean and burning my new valves-or worse. I think I need to re-tourque, re-tighten, re-adjust the valves, re-time, etc. I guess I don't even know what to ask right now.

60's forum 'Desmog' thread link= https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=176800
 
n2666s said:
Carlos, one of the best things we ever did was to send carbs and dizzy to JC to do his magic on.............the 2fs just purr:D

Lou
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I totally agree. I sent two carbs and a dizzy to Jim C. and he built me a 'bionic' carb with parts from the orig. '77 carb and a later '83 carb. He desmogged both the carb and dizzy specificaly for this application. I unfortunately did not recieve/ask for any further instructions from him and that is why my rig is back in the garage. I know he can help me. I have been trying to get a hold of him. Soon.
 
For those of you are are wondering/following the saga...

I have been driving the 'princess pig' regularly around town and have even done some wheelin' in it. (I really miss my trail pig and need to begin that project soon.) I have worked on the vacuum lines/smog equipment and the engine now runs well. I still am not sure if I have everything hooked up the way Jim C. intended it to be but it has been running much better lately. More to come on that eventually. I have not done much to the pig lately...

So here are a couple teaser pics of the pig cruisin' the Christmas Valley Dunes east of Bend.
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strong work carlos. the pig looks great. glad to see you getting the vacuum stuff worked out.

that one pic looks like a grizzly bear is driving!!

:cheers:

cliNt
 
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