| Intake manifold replacement [message #343705] |
Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00  |
Jack Ramsey
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Registered: December 2012
Location: Tulare, CA
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I am finally replacing the Intake manifold, (had some health issues last year and put it off until my head was clear), and I am AMAZED at the whole belt-alignment-tightening-pulley-bracket system. Seems like the team took some LSD and then went on a crosstop run for 3 weeks and decided to mash it all together. The amazing part is 44 years later it still works and is reliable. I'm impressed any previous owners didn't lose any parts, and from the number of homemade shims made out of larger nuts, it has been disassembled previously.
All is going well, noticed the alternator has been replaced with a Delco Remy (took a 15mm wrench to remove it, and it had a 8mm electrical positive terminal nut). The AC compressor bracket lower nut is not wanting to come off, and there is some sort of "lock nut" under it. There is also a strange loop metal bracket, that I think had a couple of springs attached to it for throttle return. Pretty cobbled up, and a WHOLE lot if intake leaks from open air hoses not plugged. amazing it ran as well as it did. I probably will be pleasantly surprised when I put the atomic TBI on it.
Anyone know about the lower AC bracket nut and what it screws into before I take some heat to it tomorrow morning?
Thanks,
Jack
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/atomic-tbi-fuel-injection/p66433-lower-nut.html
Jack Ramsey
Tulare, CA
TZE165V101526
1975 Palm Beach
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