During my rebuild I have been trying to think of a way to check the passageways of the TEQ Michaelangelo masterpiece known as the vacuum manifold. My thinking was there had to be a bug turd in one of those lines that will cause me to have a meltdown later trying to track down an emmission problem.
I came up with something a couple weeks ago that seemed to finally work out.
I was in the process of vacuum testing two different manifolds. One I had from my original smog equipment and one I bought on Ebay. The one from Ebay had a dead blockage in one of the tubes. Someone had a vacuum problem! It was holding the vacuum gauge steady at like 15.
Out came the .030 Dean Markley. With some feeding and prodding I got the clog which seemed like some flaky sort of material.
You can get all the way through most of the tubes and run it back and forth like shining a shoe. The wound type of string has a ribbed (for her pleasure) texture to it so it should file pretty good any debris.
Might help some other smogmen out there so I figured i'd post it up.
I came up with something a couple weeks ago that seemed to finally work out.
I was in the process of vacuum testing two different manifolds. One I had from my original smog equipment and one I bought on Ebay. The one from Ebay had a dead blockage in one of the tubes. Someone had a vacuum problem! It was holding the vacuum gauge steady at like 15.
Out came the .030 Dean Markley. With some feeding and prodding I got the clog which seemed like some flaky sort of material.
You can get all the way through most of the tubes and run it back and forth like shining a shoe. The wound type of string has a ribbed (for her pleasure) texture to it so it should file pretty good any debris.
Might help some other smogmen out there so I figured i'd post it up.
