Hi Guys,
i'm new here.
I bought a 1974 El Camino with a 350 engine.
According to the owner the engine recently caught fire due to a gas leak on the carb fuel line which poured gasoline to the firewall side.
It lasted a few seconds only, infact it looks almost all intact, except for the vacuum line that appear to be all damaged.
So now i'm trying fix everything but i'm having a hard time, a little help from somebody who knows this car better than i do would be very well appreciated.
So the situation is that from the inside of the car to the engine bay, as far as i understand, i have three vacuum hoses (for the air conditioning, that actually doesn't run at all) that are supposed to go somewhere, but they are burned right where the grommet is, and i can't see anything obvious around that area.
So the first thing i was able to notice is this vacuum baloon on the passenger side, right by the ac dryer:
The baloon has two vacuum hoses, one big and one small.
The big one goes from the baloon to the air intake, through a Y connector.
One of the 3 sides of this Y connector is standing with no hoses, so i don't know how to connect it.
The small hose of the baloon was just standing attached to nothing.
I also found this valve on the heater core hose with a small vacuum hose hanging
By checking all this i also found out that the yellow wire on top of the fan box was cut off (that is maybe why the vent inside doesn't even turn on) but i also found two more wires disconnected and i have no idea where they go.
One is dark tan, almost brown, under the brake booster
The other one is green with a white line, by memory i recall that GM uses this color for the tachometer signal, but the car has no tacho... however the distributor has a TACH predisposition, no wire connected, coincidence? Was it used for something else?
Oh i almost forgot, even tho the model seems to have the radio antenna embedded in the windshield i found another cut wire in the firewall that looks like an antenna wire. Is this something else?
Also both the two small vacuum hoses that i found have white stripes on them.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks a lot
i'm new here.
I bought a 1974 El Camino with a 350 engine.
According to the owner the engine recently caught fire due to a gas leak on the carb fuel line which poured gasoline to the firewall side.
It lasted a few seconds only, infact it looks almost all intact, except for the vacuum line that appear to be all damaged.
So now i'm trying fix everything but i'm having a hard time, a little help from somebody who knows this car better than i do would be very well appreciated.
So the situation is that from the inside of the car to the engine bay, as far as i understand, i have three vacuum hoses (for the air conditioning, that actually doesn't run at all) that are supposed to go somewhere, but they are burned right where the grommet is, and i can't see anything obvious around that area.
So the first thing i was able to notice is this vacuum baloon on the passenger side, right by the ac dryer:
The baloon has two vacuum hoses, one big and one small.
The big one goes from the baloon to the air intake, through a Y connector.
One of the 3 sides of this Y connector is standing with no hoses, so i don't know how to connect it.
The small hose of the baloon was just standing attached to nothing.
I also found this valve on the heater core hose with a small vacuum hose hanging
By checking all this i also found out that the yellow wire on top of the fan box was cut off (that is maybe why the vent inside doesn't even turn on) but i also found two more wires disconnected and i have no idea where they go.
One is dark tan, almost brown, under the brake booster
The other one is green with a white line, by memory i recall that GM uses this color for the tachometer signal, but the car has no tacho... however the distributor has a TACH predisposition, no wire connected, coincidence? Was it used for something else?
Oh i almost forgot, even tho the model seems to have the radio antenna embedded in the windshield i found another cut wire in the firewall that looks like an antenna wire. Is this something else?
Also both the two small vacuum hoses that i found have white stripes on them.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks a lot