1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Brougham

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Taking my effin' time still. New knock sensor installed, with the right pigtail. Triming the wires and hoses, routing them to be as clean as possible. The first time around, I have to admit I had done a spaghetti-ish job...!

I had put the EGR solenoid on the firewall, bad idea, noisy. Will relocate to stock location.

Just enjoying playing with that stuff - it's winter in a heated garage, sipping cheap beer, listening to old music on my outdated cd player and working on a car I like.

 

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Cable and hose routing is better, still some to optimize, but it doesn't really show 🤣

 

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Found a vacuum leak, check! Hopefully will fix the dysfunctional idle. TBC.

Improved the fuel line routing between the fuel pump and the carb, using AN-6 stuff, check:

re-installed the cruise control vacuum balloon after fixing its broken plastic tabs, check:

Next - exhaust leak, need to redo the R exhaust manifold to Turbo pipe; re-install the vacuum servo for cruise control (on older turbo cars, the servo sits in front of the carb, not behind)

 

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While I am waiting on (slightly) back-ordered exhaust parts, playing with the cruise control stuff.

On old Turbo engines, the servo sits in front of the carb, not behind. I went another route, because the original turbo cruise control setup are difficult to find - got a GN cruise control servo that has a long actuator but same wiring & vacuum ports. That will look stock and be out of the way.

While cleaning up the servo before installing it, found out this thing looks cool! Three coils, neat colours pretty groovy 🙂

And the tech itself is cool - that vaccuum release port on the brake light switch is something I enjoy looking at 🙂