Hey guys, i noticed that the "t" connector that screws into the plenum at the back for vac hoses is now loose.... I can take it off and re-thread it, but everytime I do that, it tightens backwards, so that the hose sizes do not match up.

Wondering if I should use some sort of thread lock so I can alighn it to be the proper direction while still having a good seal. Perhaps this is why I am having running probs. Damn vac system.

 

Might be a good idea! How do your vacuum hoses "aim"? Could you just buy newer, longer vacuum hoses, to avoid using a threadlock or teflon sealant? Actually a threadlock might not be too good; look for a teflon sealer... Loctite makes one, "PST", for Pipe Sealant with Teflon. Permatex makes one too. If you use teflon tape, it could fall off inside the motor. We're supposed to use a teflon sealant for our water pump bolts and head bolts.. when I did a head swap for a friend ( http://www.geocities.com/tomp_3rdgen ), I couldn't find PST, but I found a thin tube, by Permatex, at Pep Boys- it was brown gunk... I can't remember the exact words, something like "non hardening #2". We used that for one head, and then his dad came over to check on us, I told him how I couldn't find PST- he had a tube. We used that for the other head. A plumbing store might have PST, but Home Depot didn't.

Let us know what you do! Good find! I'll have to check mine when I get home.

 

I think I will go the route of new, longer hoses, since I can get it to tighten, but just as you said "aiming" the wrong direction. I'm doing this because one of the hoses seems to be cracking, so there may be a chance there is a split in that too, or soon to be one.

I have some of that non-hardening seal because I picked up the wrong tube when I was in pep boys, but I figgured I could use it down the road so I kept it. I found some other sealer better for the head bolts at a local auto parts store (the books i have said to use a thread selaer which hardened but not completely), so I picked up a medium thread lock (I beleive it is #2) and I used that instead of the #1 (which is the perm hardening) or #3 (which i I beleive is the non-hardening or maybe its the other way around) I used this instead of the tape, because of exactly what you said.