Got a little more work done on the truck. Temp has dropped a good deal but still made it outside for an hour or two while watching the kids play outside.
My new battery terminals came in and I swapped them out with the old crusty ones and they allow some more room for extra stuff be to wired up to the battery which gives me more room to wire in my electric PWM fan controller which I got hooked up.
Old and crusty with new and shiny (for now lol)...
I was able to track down where the vac hose from the brake booster hooks up to the upper intake manifold and get it connected (at least it feels like I connected it all the way up as I had almost zero visibility to it lol). Also found the portion of connection that use to run to the old turbo system and yanked it all out and changed up the old T connection and hooked it all back up.
I did run into a couple "snags"... I found a couple plug connections mentioned earlier in the back part of the engine and where they plugged in at and plugged them in (yay) BUT... A random vac hose of some sort broke and the piece vanished and I'm not sure what purpose the hose served.
The vac hose is almost like a double hose connector thing located by the transmission dipstick by some of the old EGR stuff use to be and the green hose is the one that broke off... Circled in the picture. Looking over some old pictures it looks like this line is what hooked to the EGR valve on the top and I can simply seal it.
Also while messing around back there and looking downwards against the firewall I see some random looking hose or something protruding from the firewall with nothing connected to it and I don't think there ever was lol... Is this just a firewall piece to allow things to be passed through and is all good? Lol.
And the last thing I found still not connected and of which I cannot recall what it connects to is another vac line of some sort that is hooked up at the front of the upper intake manifold with a black boot connection and then runs on a long black vac tube and is taped off (something I did years ago while pulling things apart I'm sure). The photo shows the boot connection and then the other end (hooked it back around to get into the picture but the tube itself is a couple feet in length). Checking my shop books didn't prove very useful lol.
Photo is from looking from the front of the truck and that is the front right portion of the upper intake manifold.
Still need to find a key on source to hook the green wire of my waterpump relay to.
Once I figure these things out I should be pretty close to complete...
* Need to fix up my center console stuff that I ripped out that has the gauges and what not in it.
* Replace my center console lid (falling apart).
* Fix a couple door locks/latches which seem to be acting up/sluggish.
* Find some tubing for my washer fluid lines (seem oddly shaped to fix over the pump connectors... Like, the end of the hose that connects to the pump nozzile/nipple is preformed bigger on the ends of the tube versus the normal thickness of the tube thus a generic hose/tube doesn't seem like it would work??).
* Finish tightening up camber bolt stuff.
* Replace brake pads and rotors (little later down the road).
* Replace cracked windshield (also down the road a bit).
* Add coolant, oil, oil filter, etc.
* Charge the new AC system.
* Get a oil tube cap and hose to connect oil tube back into MAC intake.
* Alignment.
* Strip and paint the center wheel caps (rusty looking from sitting so long).
* Rip all of the door panels off and clean up the junk inside of them (while working on the locks and latches... Think some old wasp nests got built inside, ick lol).
* Pray the truck actually runs lol.
* CLEAN IT INSIDE AND OUT HAHA.
