VACUUM LINES
Before putting the engine in, I wanted to replace all the vacuum lines that had become brittle. Finding the tubing was a bit of a pain. I found a german parts place in AZ that had the hose at a reasonable price. MAKE SURE THE HOSE IS FUEL COMPATIBLE. A number of places tried to send me vacuum hose which would not be appropriate.
While tracing the vacuum line, I found some little critter remains. Happily, long gone and no poo.
Vacuum hose front Pic below– Going clockwise from lower left to lower right, here is the broken line from the left inner fender (the expansion tank was completed disconnected and sliding around-seen already take out-the upper tank is the expansion tank-bottom windshield washer fluid). Upper left-You can see the small hose broken here. Upper right- going through the firewall (wait is this called a “fire wall” on a rear engine car?). Lower left-into the passenger compartment to where it joins with metal line.
First, I had to fix the expansion tank, as the bracket had broken off. This was an easy fix. I cleaned the tank, sanded down the bracket and place where the bracket went, then..the fun part, used my blow torch to melt them together. Grunt grunt grunt.
Here it is fixed, same order in pic below. Sorry, it isn't the final pics, I guess I never got to them (probably because it was 1:30am). I used larger hose in the inner fender…I had the tubing and I felt better about it. It is 3/16 here and you’ll see I used it in the engine compartment as well. The outer dimension is larger than the german stuff, but it was beefer and rubber on the outside.
Then the vacuum hose in the back. Again, I used the 3/16 id with larger od for the engine compartment, again, because it was beefier.
Here the vacuum hose has been replaced where the tranny meets the passenger compartment.
Here is at the canister.
Next, the engine goes in!