Jasondiz

I have a 1983 280zx turbo that has a few stray wires and two stray vacuum lines and i need some help please. The car runs fine but i want to knows what each of these things do and where they go

This is a zoomed out version of where they are located-


Here one of the stray vacuum lines and i need to know where the other end might go and what it does, i've looked but the bugger is hidden-


Heres the second stray vacuum line i think the two ends go together but would like a better insight of what it does-


Heres one of the wire its blue and i think that its for the cruise control which i know doesn't work-


And the final wire is behind the glove compartment which i don't know if it goes anywhere or is just for something my car doesn't have-


Any help will be greatly appriated
thanks Jason

michanic220

all the vacuum lines go from the intake to the vacuum storage tank and from them into the cab for the vent and other stuff.. also hoses run around your engine to your advance on your dizzy and anything else that runs off vacuum like cruise control. fuel and air regulators, etc.
i think the first thing you should do is find out if your cruise control works, if not then thats where a line is unhooked or broke.
after that i would follow all those lines and find where they go.
it was hard to see anything with the pictures as big as they are bud.

michanic220

somthing else, if you look on the vacuum storage thank there is a sticker that list the colors. those colors are the vacuum lines, with that color stripe on the hose. it might be greasy but wipe it off and there should be a color streak running down the hose if its original. atleast on mine it does. the vacuum storage tank is in the top picture, far bottom right corner.

davidjoe007

The vacuum line nearest the firewall should be for the a/c. Does your a/c work... do you hear the compressor working. Mine was disconnected too. I connected them and whala the a/c worked. Well I hopped this helped. Take Care.

Niku-Sama

vaccum for the a/c? i havent herd this before. mine doesent have any lines going to any a/c parts, it does for the vents and the controls on the dash but not to the compressor or condenser or dryer

NismoPick

^^^ Yeah... I think he meant the whole heat / a/c / vent system. Though on the turbo models there is a vacuum pump when you turn it on.

davidjoe007

Oops...thanks NismoPick...yes the vacuum pump. I'd take a pick of how mine looks... where it comes out of the firewall and what part of the vacuum pump it goes to, but it's at the tranny shop.