Your very welcome!! My pleasure, and glad you found a garage close that's willing to help, its always a nice backup. Please keep me posted, id love to know how it turns out, have a great day!
Will
V6 Tuning (timing, vacuum)
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Not there yet... met the new mechanic; good guy & I think I'll use him for my other cars but he's not familiar enough with this old of a car to help. He was honest & cool about it & knows somebody that he thinks can help, & he's going to hook me up with him. But while we checked stuff out, I found a set of disconnected vacuum lines tucked down in the back of the motor. See the pic below. There's a 4-way tee... one line goes to the reservoir ball, one to the cruse control transducer, and the other two are short & disconnected. Does anybody know where these go?
*edit*: there was a hose incorrectly routed directly from a port on the back of the carb to the thermac sensor. I removed that, and one end of this went to the thermac sensor & the other end to the carb port.
*edit*: there was a hose incorrectly routed directly from a port on the back of the carb to the thermac sensor. I removed that, and one end of this went to the thermac sensor & the other end to the carb port.
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My diagram is below. See the top image... the line I highlighted green is what I installed when I put everything back together. I put a new line there because I thought it was missing. In reality it should've been as in the second image below... that line is teed with additional runs to the reservoir ball and cruise transducer. I'm not sure why those aren't shown on this diagram, except that cruise is an option?
Also: with the EST connector disconnected from the distributor, the car won't start. I didn't put much thought into it when we were diagnosing, but after reading tonight I think that's a problem... it should run? So, something else to troubleshoot?
Also: with the EST connector disconnected from the distributor, the car won't start. I didn't put much thought into it when we were diagnosing, but after reading tonight I think that's a problem... it should run? So, something else to troubleshoot?
That would be correct! Cruise was an option, not sure why GM wouldn't have had a label containing this option, must have been another cost saving move from corporate at the time.
With EST disconnected, the car won't start. I replaced the ignition module and coil and it still won't start. I thought it might be because it's too far out of base timing, or that it's not getting spark. If I turn the engine over with EST disconnected, the timing light won't flash, so It's not getting spark (right?). Where to go from here? Getting frustrated...
Question, did you put an aftermarket ignition control module on your car? Why I ask is this, sometimes aftermarkets will do exactly what your describing. Its always best to go with ac/Delco parts with anything to do with ignition.
It's not ACDelco - it's "Standard Ignition" brand. The one I took out was the same brand. I'll try an ACDelco module.
& even if timing is too far retarded, I should still have spark, right? Timing being way off wouldn't affect spark?
By the way, I'm on my 5th attempt to find an old school mechanic. I have a lead on another local place & if I can get them to take me I'll turn this all over to them.
& even if timing is too far retarded, I should still have spark, right? Timing being way off wouldn't affect spark?
By the way, I'm on my 5th attempt to find an old school mechanic. I have a lead on another local place & if I can get them to take me I'll turn this all over to them.
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