Removing Pulse Air and Sol Vac circuits?
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I have a '86 CJ7 I as seen in this post that I have gotten running and somewhat drivable. I am working towards getting it running solidly while maintaining minimal investment. So far I'm in it about 3.5 hours and $0. I am having issues with it idling up in park and bogging down/stalling under sudden load. After doing a bit of reading, my eventual plan is to do the "Nutter" process and a new carb to eliminate finicky/worn out/overly complex junk currently in place. In the meantime however, I'd like to see what I can do to eliminate obvious problems and try to get it running better with the factory equipment if at all possible.
With the backstory out of the way my question involves the removal of the Pulse Air Tube system and Sol Vac system from the Jeep. The pulse tubes were all rotted out so I figured there was no point in keeping that whole system in place, so I pulled them out and removed the small vacuum lines from the valves to the two solenoids. The third solenoid in the set was connected to the Sol Vac on the carb, which was also rotted out and non functional, so at that point I pulled the Sol Vac, it's vacuum line, as well as the 3 solenoids since they all seemed to feed from one Tee along the firewall.
Now that the Pulse Tubes, Sol Vac, and associated solenoids are gone and associated electrical connectors left unplugged, I am wondering if I can simply leave it this way and let the computer still control the carb mix and ignition timing for the time being, or will it freak out with the other 2 components missing and not work at all? I'd rather hold off on the "Nutter" for a bit as I don't have a timing light yet and would like to read up a bit more first, or will it be required with what I have already done?
I must also give a huge thanks to the "Adventures Under the Hood" site, very useful information there!
Thanks!
With the backstory out of the way my question involves the removal of the Pulse Air Tube system and Sol Vac system from the Jeep. The pulse tubes were all rotted out so I figured there was no point in keeping that whole system in place, so I pulled them out and removed the small vacuum lines from the valves to the two solenoids. The third solenoid in the set was connected to the Sol Vac on the carb, which was also rotted out and non functional, so at that point I pulled the Sol Vac, it's vacuum line, as well as the 3 solenoids since they all seemed to feed from one Tee along the firewall.
Now that the Pulse Tubes, Sol Vac, and associated solenoids are gone and associated electrical connectors left unplugged, I am wondering if I can simply leave it this way and let the computer still control the carb mix and ignition timing for the time being, or will it freak out with the other 2 components missing and not work at all? I'd rather hold off on the "Nutter" for a bit as I don't have a timing light yet and would like to read up a bit more first, or will it be required with what I have already done?
I must also give a huge thanks to the "Adventures Under the Hood" site, very useful information there!
Thanks!