[cody-z34-birchem]

So, off the front manifold there's a metal hose coming out of the front, and it has a 90 degree turn, goes straight for the pass. side of the car.. where the rubber hose clamps on, my hose was cut off, and the clamps were left in place.. help?

[Nick07]

cody-z34-birchem, on 20 January 2010 - 11:57 PM, said:

So, off the front manifold there's a metal hose coming out of the front, and it has a 90 degree turn, goes straight for the pass. side of the car.. where the rubber hose clamps on, my hose was cut off, and the clamps were left in place.. help?

Are you asking what it is or where it goes or how to fix or what?

[nitehawkjcb]

I'm in no way sure what that is for, but it may be for the EGR?

[Nick07]

nitehawkjcb, on 21 January 2010 - 12:29 AM, said:

I'm in no way sure what that is for, but it may be for the EGR?

That's what I was thinkin but I still wasn't sure what he was askin

[Dave96Z34]

Air pump line
That black thing right befor it goes to ruber is a check valve.

This post has been edited by Dave96Z34: 21 January 2010 - 06:12 AM

[cody-z34-birchem]

Hm... well, So the black thing before it's hose is a check valve, but I need well, either a picture of where it goes or a guide. It's like... well, a totally cut hose. ha, the idiot working on the car just cut it. Would the cut hose be because the 96 DOHC had it and the 97 didnt? I don't remember exactly what everything looked like under the hood of the car before I sent it in, and right now, I'm working on getting it all put together the right way. I'm going to be draining the coolant and pulling the radiator tonight. Going to be pulling the engine out of the top, rather than dropping the cradle... going to suck? ha... probably. haha.

[Dave96Z34]

cody-z34-birchem, on 21 January 2010 - 04:08 PM, said:

Hm... well, So the black thing before it's hose is a check valve, but I need well, either a picture of where it goes or a guide. It's like... well, a totally cut hose. ha, the idiot working on the car just cut it. Would the cut hose be because the 96 DOHC had it and the 97 didnt? I don't remember exactly what everything looked like under the hood of the car before I sent it in, and right now, I'm working on getting it all put together the right way. I'm going to be draining the coolant and pulling the radiator tonight. Going to be pulling the engine out of the top, rather than dropping the cradle... going to suck? ha... probably. haha.

97 does not have an air pump your fine. Just make shure that valve isnt leaking. If it is you can't just get a plug is special metric thread. You can cut the tube and weld the tube end above the nut or take the nut out cut and pull the tube out and take a penny and put it in the hole and use the nut to crush it sealing it up.

I can have my cradel on the ground in under an 1h so and it is a sh*t load easyer to work on. My personal preference.

This post has been edited by Dave96Z34: 21 January 2010 - 11:22 PM

[cody-z34-birchem]

Yes so I was planning on, but considering on that note, I'd have had to lift the car by hand, me and a buddy of mine, decided to just say screw it and we're going to try lifting it out the top. With how difficult it is to move in that cold ass driveway, I'm sure it's going to take me a little bit longer to get things done, engine might have to be pulled next week rather than tomorrow, we'll see.

[Dave96Z34]

cody-z34-birchem, on 22 January 2010 - 12:02 AM, said:

Yes so I was planning on, but considering on that note, I'd have had to lift the car by hand, me and a buddy of mine, decided to just say screw it and we're going to try lifting it out the top. With how difficult it is to move in that cold ass driveway, I'm sure it's going to take me a little bit longer to get things done, engine might have to be pulled next week rather than tomorrow, we'll see.

If your going to have a engine lift you may as well. You make a dolly with good wheels and you lower the cradel on set parking brake and use thelift to lift the body up and you just pull the hole thing out from under and lower the body on to some old tires. Just warning you have to have your engine lift at full extention and there is a chance it could flip the jack. Thats just the warnning its never hapend to me and iv always done it by my slef so if you have the guy pumping standing on the back I wouldnt wory.

[cody-z34-birchem]

Well got lucky, and my buddy's cousin is the auto tech. at Merit Chev and is also the Manager of the O'Reilly Auto right up the road from my house. He's coming over tomorrow to see if he can work a little magic with this stupid car, and if we get it all figured out, I may/still may not have a running Monte tomorrow. My hopes aren't up, and depending on tomorrow's results I might just give up. Dug in further, not sure why but there's no tension in the belt meaning my brand new tensioner is failing, and I myself really doesn't feel like paying for another one. Becoming a drag.. not sure if I should just keep trying or jump to a 2000 Grand Prix. The latter of the two just sounds easier, but I'm not one for giving up.

[Nick07]

Or you could just buy a running and driving Z34 from a fellow MM member such as myself.... Hint Hint. I'm only a few hours from you I think

[cody-z34-birchem]

Nick07, on 26 January 2010 - 12:30 AM, said:

Or you could just buy a running and driving Z34 from a fellow MM member such as myself.... Hint Hint. I'm only a few hours from you I think

Well like I said in the WTB section, I was just looking for cheap, because I can/could only afford a few hundred.. But as of now, if we don't get this P.O.S. running, I'm parting it out, and saying "I give up." I have a car payment on my other car, which is supposed to drag me for another 4 years, but if I play my cards right (basically save money, quit pouring into Monte) I can pay it off in November, then I can pay for the Monte toys (if I don't make this one run) I can't afford another $1000 car right now, at most, I'd spend $400 on a motor..

[Dave96Z34]

You may not need one you may have snaped the ear off the tentioner braket. PULL IT APART !

[cody-z34-birchem]

Well, I took the timing belt off, then took the tensioner off. Yeah, you know how the backside of the tensioner pulley has the small spot that the actual tensioner pushes into making something sort of like a ball joint deal, yeah, that was pushed up, pushing against my cam gears. So, got everything in time, got the belt back on [thank GOD], and going to be putting the valve covers, and intake manifold back on Friday. If it starts [yay], if not... well, what parts do you guys want?

[Dave96Z34]

I know thee feeling on that its hapend to me. My case i broke the tab of the timing belt tentioner braket the back part with the brass. Didnt know till it was driven about 200 miles that it had cracked. My all time fav was when I striped the threads out of the top valy idler pulley put one of the longer spars ran it in to get to the deaper good threads and low and behold a realy hard 2-1 down shift sheared it right off. Same grade bolt as befor.THen had to drill the grade 8.8 bolt out of the cast alum via the iner fender well with a hole cut in the wheel well and a drill extention. Then ran a nice larger grade 8.8 bolt. Night mare. Ran the bolt for 50k miles like that worked perfect.

This post has been edited by Dave96Z34: 03 February 2010 - 02:51 PM

[cody-z34-birchem]

Well got everything (for the most part) together today. Only to find out that a plug connector is missing. The distributor cap plug, the one on the back side, with the 3 prong connector, not sure where it is. Traced the entire wiring harness and I can't find it, and I even pulled back the tape and stuff. Nothing. So now.. gotta figure THAT problem out.

[Dave96Z34]

What is the plugs location if its by the ps pump that was for vari ps on the gtp in 96 that we dont have. There are only a few 3 wire plugs I can think of. The tps sensor, cam posiosion sensor, crank posiosion sensor and maf sensor. There are many more name loaction and color or the wires.

[cody-z34-birchem]

On the distributor, when you look at it from the front of the car, on the front side of it, on the left, there's a two prong plug. On the back of it, still on the mount for the distributor, there's a 3 prong plug on the left side, with a 5 prong plug right next to it. Only problem, it's gone. I'm going to do a compression test, and if there's nothing, well, ha, then I give up.

EDIT: The 3 prong one, it's the plug I can't find.

This post has been edited by cody-z34-birchem: 07 February 2010 - 09:34 PM

[me6894]

Pics of said distributor?

[Dave96Z34]

Thats the crank pos sensor it runs down the back of the engine down next to the alt. Its dangling back there some place.

[cody-z34-birchem]

The crank pos sensor? Awesome, I'll have to give it a look sometime when I've got more than 5 minutes to sit down. Although, i'm still not sure if I've got any compression. Would the connection for that sensor make it sound like my engine's not firing at all? because that's the sound that I'm getting. I'm beginning to wish I'd have just bought a whole new engine AGAIN, ha. This one's just a pain.. trying to fix what was initially wrong AND what the mechanic screwed up.

[Dave96Z34]

With out that sensor you dont run.

[cody-z34-birchem]

Ha, awesome. Well I'll have to dig into it Saturday night. I gotta work the rest of the week on top of school, AGAIN, hook up the block heater Saturday morning and Saturday night I'll give it a shot!! ah, excited to see this thing actually show some LIFE!! It's so nice, just to see the engine crank I smiled, even though it didn't start because the sensor wasn't hooked up, ah, it's a pleasure to see that thing finally have some movement other than the back tires behind a tow truck.