I just got a maverick and I've noticed some of the hoses are undone, or not in there right place (they come from a unit that says "vacuum...". I've kinda placed some ends on some "openings" that the curves and length of the hoses seemed to fit right. I'm not familiar with how old cars work (or any cars really for that matter). Could somebody please point me in the right direction of where all these lines should go to, so I could just double check? The chilton's manual doesn't really help out with this sort of stuff. Also does anyone know the significance of having that air compressor unit hooked up where it blows air into the exhaust manifold? It was undone with a cork in the hose when I got the car, but I hooked it back up thinking it may help? Any help would be greatly appreciated . Thanks in advance!!!
Hey! Another Houston MAVERICK!!! What part of town you in? Try to take a picture of what you have going on and we will chime in to help fix. But, if I were you, I would just remove all the EGR and vacuum stuff. We don't need to pass emissions inspections on these old cars, so why mess with all of it?
I'm around the Woodlands area in a small town of Magnolia, lol. No one ever really knows where that's at but they do know where the Woodlands is, lol. But yeah, here are some pictures with colored dots of what ends are on the same hose. The hose with the red dots is the one that I just plugged in because it seemed like it fit on the carburetor. Then one with the 3 yellow question marks, I have know clue where that goes, it comes from the same place in the front of the engine that the other hose that is right beside it at the bottom of the pic. And the hose that goes over that silver thing at the bottom right is plugged up with a screw like the other one. The blue one goes to the EGR sensor I believe , just off the top of my head??? Also, that silver thing I think is like a temperature switch I guess from what I've kinda read here and there on the internet. So when the engine gets hot it shuts off the air flow from the air compressor to the "exhaust manifold" (I think that's what it goes to???) It was unplugged when I got it, so I just put the pulley back on it and hooked the hoses back up, My question with that one is: What purpose does that serve and can I just take that off, or can I hook it up to where it leads to the intake so the compressor would act like a turbo??? Don't know, but just playing with some thoughts with that one. Thanks again
I know magnolia. Dated a girl there when I was in high school. I have no idea what all that stuff is you are looking at. Sorry to be so little help...
make sure the hose coming off the trans is plugged into the intake manifold on the passengerside and make sure the hose comming off the dizzy is plugged into carb other then that make sure there are no leaks into the intake. everything else is just BS
Hose wise I cant help you but.The air pump(smog pump) on the front of the engine is for the thermactor system.It pumps freash air into the exhaust to help clean it up and heats the catalytic converter up so it does its job properly.Without it the converter will eventually fail and plug up but if you dont need it where you are.Leave it disconnected (those things were good for burning exhaust valves) and pull the converter when you do an exhaust upgrade or swap to a V-8.Good luck.That pump wont give you anything but grief,so no,no turbo attributes there.
It takes quite a while for it to happen,If you use gas with alot of sulfur in it like Mobil.It happens faster.The extra oxygen supplied by the pump helps heat the cat up,they work in the temp ranges of 260 to 320 deg in order to convert the pollutants to less harmful pollutants.Lame if you ask me.You would think with technology what it is today cars would be efficient enough (burn wise) to not need the darn things.
So if I were to hook it up every year or two, and let it do it's cleaning job for a day. It wouldn't pose much of a threat to the exhaust part huh? In the meantime I guess I'm gonna take it off. It does make that fast pumping sound though, my dad can't here it, lol, but I can.
If the cats clog up, cut them off and have muffler guy just stab in a piece of pipe. Shouldn't cost more than $50-100. By then, you would likely need a new exhaust system unless the one you have is already a replacement.
just wondering but dont the ricers call that a "test pipe"? when the cat is replaced with a regular pipe?
There are darn few muffler shops that will install a "test pipe" in place of a cat. They face a $20000 federal fine for doing that and there may be state and local fines on top of the federal fines. If you do it yourself then you only face a $10000 federal fine. While you are less likely to get caught you have to ask yourself, "Do I feel lucky?" and then find an answer you can live with.
