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i am putting my original hitachi carb back onto my L-series wagon and i am having heaps of trouble with the locations of all the bloody vacumm hoses. does anyone have a resourse that will show what hose goes where? my manual is bloody useless. can you get rid of some of the hoses. there are so many of the damn things.

would some photos be good enough? yeah those hoses have annoyed me aswell - couldnt work out why car was idling like shit - one of the hoses had dropped off the connection. Might have to take the air filter off to see for a photo I guess... hmmm

well i guess a photo would be a big help. unfortunately all my hoses were removed and now they all need to be replaced back in their original positions. any idea if some of them can be blocked off? i am sure most are just emissions related. thanks for any help though.

Yeah I guess alot of them are, but there are some important ones like I found out - couldnt tell you which ones though. I'll work on some photos

cheers timmo

maybe you could give me your email artixx, the pictures will have to be too small for here unless theres another way? I didnt have time to take the air filter off either - but they maybe of some use

cheers mate any help is very much appreciated. i dropped in at a wreckers today and they had 2 leones and a 4wd wagon all were different to my car! bloody hell why would you bother to have so many different setups for whats basically the same car. anyway my email is [email protected]

cheers mate

rightio i'm onto it now

there we go i've sent them... took a while

Try blocking all the hoses coming out of the manifold/motor. This should help with idling

can you just block off all apart from fuel lines and the vacumm advance hose. it would make life a lot easier

I've seen it done. Its illegal, but will give you better power and economy.

really tell me more...........what can go and what has to stay?

You basically leave all the hoses on, but put bolts/plugs on the ends, I am not sure which ones though.