vigman
Motor head!!!!
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- Corvette
- 88 Convert ( SOLD ) /1973 coupe 4 speed/1964 Vert!
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Todd, another welcome from a former 84 owner
You can make a homemade manometer to balance your TBs, don't really remember how my nephew made one but if you need to know more about the manometer I will ask him to refresh my memory although it's probly on the crossfire forum somwhere anyway
I'll tell ya, after he balanced the throttle body injectors and torqued down the intake and all my 84 ran like a swiss watch
No one got the proper technique for vacuum leak detection... :confused
FIRST; block the pedal, or block the throttle linkage. YOU HAVE TO DO THIS TO GET A STEADY IDLE , around 1,250 rpms, or a little higher. If you don't, you can fish a propane hose, or WD40, or Krylon, or hair spray, or pee, anything, until you need a sweater in Hades, but if the motor is lopin' already from a vacuum leak, you ain't gonna' find any vacuum leak, unless it's so big that Little Jack Horner can stick his thumb in it and pull out a pineapple NOPE.
AFTER you get a steady idle, THEN, you can spray starting fluid everywhere - that's the best detector, because it's vapor pressure is very high - a LITTLE at a time, until you get the SURGE. Follow the vacuum lines to the EVAP cannister too. You might even have to follow the EVAP lines from the EVAP cannister to the gas tank too, but that vac leak will show up as a DTC 32 EGR fault, and won't normally show as loping idle, unless the EVAP cannister has been by-passed (been there, saw that uh-huh).
If you get a surge in a tight spot, and can't tell exactly where it is, light a book of matches, blow out the match heads while they're still burnin', and feed the smoke to the tight spot.
Fear not the starting fluid; you cannot put the can down fast enough and light the matches fast enough to catch the starting fluid, because the vapor pressure is so high.
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Wrench Wizard OUT!