CTO switch

["evang25" <cullen.swanson@xxxx>]

Charlie, thanks for reply on the vaccum hose question. I don't want 
this to be complicated, but I'm still a bit confused. Your reply was 
clear, and I know where the spark port is on my FY carb, but check 
this out. Last night, I was reading through my Hayne's manual, 
trying to figure out where all of my little hoses and fittings go. 
Page 175 says that there is a line that comes off of the coolant 
temperature override (CTO) switch (located at base of the engine 
block on the left side) is suppose to hook up to "carburetor EGR port 
spark." Then, I found out that the CTO switch has two nipples on 
it. The inner one, like I said above, goes to the spark port. The 
outer nipple on the CTO valve is where the distributor vaccum advance 
goes. Apparently, you can check the vaccum by putting a vaccum gauge 
on the outer nipple of the CTO valve where the vaccum advance hose 
from the distributor goes. Dang that's a mouthful. I am finding out 
that I am running into some problems because the guy that had the car 
before me stripped out all of the emissions stuff, and the original 
air cleaner housing was thrown out. Along with his modifications, 
there are hoses not hooked up, and hoses hooked up where they are not 
supposed to be hooked up. For instance, right now, there is a hose 
coming off of the spark port and going into the exhause manifold. 
Because all of this stuff was thrown out, is this a big problem, or 
is improvising going to be possible without losing performance? 
Also, would you recommend using the CTO for the vaccum source, or 
just plugging it up and taking the vaccum advance hose from the 
distributor straight to the spark port? I don't think I've ever used 
so many mechanical terms in one day in my whole life.