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Old June 23rd 15, 01:02 AM posted to rec.autos.makers.jeep+willys
DougW[_6_]
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Default now to trace a vacuum leak

Budd Cochran wrote:
> On 6/20/2015 8:59 AM, DougW wrote:
>> Budd Cochran wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, there isn't a diagram of the heater vacuum circuits
>>> available online for the 89 XJ that I've been able to find.

>>
>> Will this help?
>> http://www.revbeergoggles.com/temp/8...r%20system.pdf
>>
>>> I also don't like the look of the vacuum line for the heater water
>>> control valve (I also converted from a closed cooling system to an
>>> open system while the beast was apart).

>>
>> On my ZJ I had to use a vac pump (one of those hand held thingies
>> with a gauge) to test lines. Wound up replacing quite a few of the
>> hardlines because they had small cracks. Oddly, the vac harness from Jeep wasn't expensive.
>>

> I have a vacuum line assembly from a '92 in my pile of Jeep stuff but
> I don't know if it will fit yet.
>
> And the darn thing is still cutting out and stalling so it's back to
> square one.
>
> Budd
>
> Who truly understands the phrase: (J)ust (E)mpty (E)very (P)ocket ...
> I'm so broke now I can't afford to sell it . . . . . . .


About the only thing I'm down to is jumpering the block to the frame.
That stoopid ground strap problem.

The other option is a harness issue, and that is an exercise in tracking
wires... the biggest PITA of them all.


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