Egr
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Racer
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From: Oklahoma
Egr
My fairly stock 79 has all the symptoms of a bad egr; after a few minutes after warm up it surges,stalls and dies. I can move the diaphragm with my fingers and nothing changes. I spray CC and nothing changes. No vacuum leaks detected but no vacuum at egr regardless of rpm. Replaced with new egr and no difference. What am I missing? New TVS and it holds vacuum. Thanks
Le Mans Master
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My fairly stock 79 has all the symptoms of a bad egr; after a few minutes after warm up it surges,stalls and dies. I can move the diaphragm with my fingers and nothing changes. I spray CC and nothing changes. No vacuum leaks detected but no vacuum at egr regardless of rpm. Replaced with new egr and no difference. What am I missing? New TVS and it holds vacuum. Thanks
Le Mans Master
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From: Indiana
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Racer
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From: Oklahoma
I don’t have anything like that. When I bought the car the air pump is gone along with most emissions equipment and everything but the egr and pcv . NOS original manifold and just got back rebuild on my Qjet.
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Racer
Joined: Aug 2019
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From: Oklahoma
What I am really hoping for is the ability to start and drive the car to town about 10 miles away @45 (speed limit) once a week or so. It runs okay but there has to be a reason for almost no vacuum at idle. I also only get enough vacuum to operate the brakes one pump.
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Have you tried blocking off, using vacuum caps, all the vacuum sources from the intake and carb. If that solves it you can then reconnect one at a time until you find the source fo the leak.