funny story and question for you

[moontang]

went out today started the cutlass let it run for a bit and took it for a little drive got back and decided to actually start going over it findingall the little things that need to be tended to so i take the breather cover of and pull theair filter out and sitting in there was a bunch of seeds like maybe a squirle had gotten up there but not made a nest just hid stuff funny to me


anyway i need a rubber vaccume connection to the valve cover (i assume pcv) that you can see just above the left top corner of the brake manifoldin below picture would this be something i could get from a parts store or do i have to ask one of you guys with a parts car to sell it to me?

also what is the big silver tube coming from the exhaust manifold to the bottom of the breather snout? is like a early version of EGR?

also the device with the bundleof wires running to it just above the alt in this pic what is it? it is zip tied to the (vac?) hose that runs across the engine it seems to be be connected to the carb i figure a sensor of some sort? could be wrong i feel like such a newb im not used to this non efi funness i understand it just not all its parts

 

[outsider_27]

You should be able to get one of those vacuum connectors at a salvage yard if not at a parts store. The part with the wires connected to it is the cruise control, I think it is the servo, but if not that, it is part of the cruise control and is connected to the carb. I know there are vacuum lines that run to it from the intake manifold, maybe another that runs into the car to the brake light/cruise shut off switches. The silver hose is for the hot air door in the air cleaner. It runs hot air up and when the element heats up the door gradually opens.

 

[moontang]

sweet you are the man lol

thanks though didnt even think of cruise control

all this is like relearning every thing


anything anyone else wants to tell me will be great

 

[gs dewd]

The thing with the wires running to it is indeed the cruise control servo/vacume pot. Yours just happens to have them made together. Mine has them seperate as in the servo is on the fender well and the vacume pot is where your servo is. The silver hose in indeed the hot air tube it's purpose is to heat up the incoming air when it's cold the help with idle and warm the car up quicker. As far as the tube are you talking about the one from the valve cover or are you talking about the black canister looking thing with the vacume lines on it? The line coming from the vavle cover is a breather line to keep the pressure from building up in the top half of the engine. Works just like the pvc valve. Your actual pvc valve is on the other vavle cover. The canister thingy is a check valve to help keep vacume in the break booster in times where vacume in low.

 

[joe_padavano]

You should be able to get one of those vacuum connectors at a salvage yard if not at a parts store.

Unfortunately, all the ones in wrecking yards are also cracked. Dorman Products sells the connector under their HELP! line of products.

 

[outsider_27]

My cruise has the seperate servo and vacuum pot also. I forgot about the HELP parts, should be able to get one that way.

 

[moontang]

https://www.dormanproducts.com/cgi-bin/ ... 0x0030c9b9

is that the right part the top one that is? i didnt see a "help" parts thing but im thinking thats it but i coulld be wrong?