[urq] It runs!

[Thatcher Hubbard]

Well, on Friday night I got the car to not only start but idle.  I had
a few vacuum leaks, some of which were probably affecting the car even
before I took it apart.  The first was a tiny leak in the Michelin
Man.  I wrapped it with duct tape until my Aircraft Spruce hose comes
in, it seems to be fine.

The leak that was making the big difference though, was the vaccum
hose that goes from the back-right port on that four port fitting at
the back of the IM.  It runs down to a sensor of some sort on the back
of the head and then goes into what I refer to as the "idle
stabilizer".  The thing on the side of the block with the two fuel
hoses running to it.  Anyway, one of the rubber hoses on it is a
tapered piece, and it had some huge cracks in it.  To get the car to
idle, I just pulled the hoses back to the IM and plugged a short piece
of hose off of that.  It doesn't seem to have any affect at all on how
the car runs.  Can somebody tell me what effect I should expect from
that?

Anyway, the car runs much better than before.  It still idles low when
its cold, down at about 600rpm, which I want to get sorted before it
gets really cold, but it had done that since I've owned it.  Also, one
of my front CV boots cracked while the car was sitting.  So I won't be
driving it until I get that taken care of.  But it's nice to know the
engine is getting better rather than worse.