My son's baseball game was rained out last night, after two innings,
so I was able to get out in the garage.
I pulled the manifold with carb still on it. It's truly a wonder this
car was running. The middle two studs didn't seem to be tightened down.
The manifold to cat interface had one slightly loose bolt. Gas poured
out of the vapor line to the absorption canister. I'm planning on
replacing the charcoal in that already.
I'd always stalled on tuning the ZS, since it was such a pain. Have to
dig through my workshop to find the tuning tool. And remember how to do
it. I thought it was running rich, but I didn't expect gas in the
vapor line.
I broke 3 bolts. One on the cat to exhaust pipe and both on the
clamp connecting the exhaust pipe to the front muffler.
So everything is intact to reverse the process if needed.
That's where I stopped. Tonight, the make up baseball game, cub scouts,
etc. I don't think I'll be there.
The punch line of course, is that today is the first day of the week
that I could have driven the car to work. So for the rest of you twin
cities folk. Expect sunny skies until I get the car back on the road.
:-)
Good luck, Monte. Send me a picture of the new paint! Hopefully, I can
get on that next summer. My cousin has promised to help. Which I hope
means he'll paint it.
MonteMorris wrote:
> Paul,
> Good luck on your carb swap. Keep us posted how it goes. I will also be
> doing this soon-the 79 SHOULD be out of the paint shop in a week or so.
> Monte
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Root" <proot@iaces.com>
> To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:13 AM
> Subject: TCSA
>
>
>
>>Last night I pulled my air pump and was reading John Twist's
>>tech manual and it's a bit confusing.
>>
>>So the vacuum hose goes from the manifold/gulp valve to this
>>vacuum valve/solenoid thing called a TCSA (transmission control
>>something). Can you tell I don't have John's book in
>>front of me. Oh, Moss part number, 145-740 N/A.
>>
>>There are two wires running to it, red/yellow and black. The
>>r/y goes to a micro switch, somewhere, and on the other end of that
>>switch is a yellow that goes to overdrive gear switch on the tranny.
>>Yes, even if you don't have an overdrive. I do know that's there.
>>
>>So, John's tech article says, take the vacuum tube straight from the
>>manifold to the dizzy. And that if you don't have an OD, the wires
>>must be removed.
>>
>>My question is, from where? Just tape off the wires from the solenoid?
>>I.e. the red/yellow and black. Or do I need to get it the whole circuit
>>pulled out?
>>
>>Also, how do I get the air pump bracket out? The nut can't come out
>>because the pulley is in the way.
>>
>>I may be imagining things, but, in my around the block. It seems better.
>>Idle is a bit low (600), but it doesn't sound like it's going to die
>>like it used to when idle would temporarily drop that low.
>>
>>I may start pulling out the ZS for my HIF rebuilds tonight. Then again,
>>I might not have time...
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