Pinto Car Club of America
Welcome to FordPinto.com, The home of the PCCA => General Help- Ask the Experts... => Topic started by: wilit on May 01, 2018, 10:10:23 AM
I'm trying to get my '79 California emissions Pinto ready for smog. In the process of doing the tuneup, I found a vacuum line on the carb that didn't have a hose attached to it. Any idea where this line connects to?
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Probably something to do with the automatic choke... probably to draw hot air thru the choke.
Check to see if there is a vacuum present at the port..
Does the car run ok without it? If so try putting a cap on it and see if it passes smog.
If not investigate farther.
I just moved from so cal and passing usually depends on whether you get a friendly tech. Just be polite and maybe talk about classic cars...
Also.. is the carb 5he factory one.. 5here are a lot of different models..
If the tech questions yiu about the plugged port.. tell him it was that way when you bought it.
Good luck
I think it's a timed/ported vacuum. It has a very slight draw at idle but seems to increase a little with RPM. And I'm pretty sure it's the original carb. It still has the factory tag on it.
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It is the port that goes to the dist vac advance on the 74's would think would be used as the same function on yours.