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- Subject: Re: WHAT IS AN A-I-R PUMP ON A CHEVY CAPRICE ENGINE?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.190903.5997@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:09:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.192801.25210@newstand.syr.edu>, ravalent@mothra.syr.EDU (Bob Valentine) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.170947.21129@colorado.edu> bowmanj@csn.org (Jerry Bowman) writes:
- >[previous stuff about AIR pump removal deleted]
- >>
- >> The only reason not to remove it is that it ay be illegal in
- >> your area, After all it is just an air pump pushing air into your
- >> exhaust manifolds. If you only take the belt off exhaust can flow
- >> back into the pump andbuild up carbon deposits. Then when you want
- >> to reconnect it for an emmissions test it will not turn.
-
- Which brings to mind a half-baked, wild, and probably foolish idea.
-
- I'm positive people will tell me in great and excruciating detail
- why it won't work.
-
- How about setting up a diverter so that the output from the air pump could be
- switched over to the INTAKE manifolds. Kind of a belt driven
- mini-supercharger? With a switchable valve at the split point so you could
- switch the air flow back to the exhaust manifold.
-
- On the other hand, even if it could work it would probably be illegal.
-
- Alex
-
-
- >
- > Sorry, almost _ALL_ AIR systems have a built in check-valve, the
- >main purpose of which is to prevent damage to the pump and components
- >in the case of a backfire. If I disconnect it, I remove the outlet
- >hose and give a liberal squirt of oil into it, then spin it. AIR
- >pumps do like to sieze if they are disconnected and left....
- > --> Bob Valentine <--
- > --> ravalent@mailbox.syr.edu <--
- >
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