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The last stage of the cold weather work, tranny cooler lines, extending all the wires to the trunk for the regular harness-two computers-mounting and shortening the wires for the receivers(electronic controls) is now done and everything is tucked away.
Standing back inspecting my work I found a lose black wire mixed in with all the other wires. At this point there should be NO loose wires! I picked through the open harness only to find my loose black wire was a vaccum tube for the heater! Geeeesh I had the heater done months ago! Everything done except hooking this main vaccum to the engine!
I for one hate to see anything clutterd anywhere on the car-a OEM -vaccum 'T' off the booster never has looked good to me and I only wanted one vaccum line other than the booster. (Some day I will take the time and figure out a way to camouflage it!)
My answer: Instead of using a large ugly vaccum T I pulled out an OEM plug from the manifold found a brass insert that was also threaded inside and a very small compression fitting. (normally used for an
oil line gauge). I then installed a nylon plastic tube in the compression fitting and screwed it into the brass fitting after I retapped it internally to accept the pipe threads from the compression fitting. When that phase was done I sanded the little piece, primered it with self etching primer then painted the entire asembly with semi gloss silver.
Looking at the pictures you might ask how I got the nylon tube to bend 90's and then straight without any kinks?............A heat gun-warmed the tube to 'flexible' then worked it the way I wanted it. Ok, it looked good but it was just another line coming to/from the motor. I made use of the "choke Cable". Using very small wire ties that I also painted silver I then attached the vaccum line to the bottom of the choke cable. I then drilled a small hole in the firewall, ran the tubing over to the heater solenoid and plugged it in!
DONE.
