My vacuum reservoir, the metal can thing on the driver's side fender area, seems to be leaking... I have looked everywhere and nowhere seems to have this part listed. Anyone know where to get one? Or a part number? Being steel these tend to rot... can't believe they don't make a replacement...
They do - it's just not steel. Browse the JYs; any vacuum reservoir from any make/model will work - especially those with the same number of nipples as your truck's. The plastic dual-chamber version was used at least from '87-03, so they're very common:
Why not make your own out of a couple of fittings and an old ammo can? Or fittings and pretty much any kind of container that would stand up to the use?
https://www.fordpartsprime.com/ has a lot of hard to find, vintage and 'discontinued' OEM Ford parts. Check them out. I like buying on their site because their prices are cheaper than dealer.
Then you open a valve to let the air from that chamber push the potato plug out of the barrel.
I'm not saying it is a good idea to put hundreds of pounds of pressure into a chamber made from PVC pipe. But I AM saying that people have been doing it for decades.
This, although interesting, has become a sidetrack to this thread.
The fact is that a chamber made from PVC pipe will do perfectly well as a vacuum chamber on one of our trucks. With no danger whatever. Mount it where the vacuum chamber would normally be mounted, and in the same way, and you'll be fine.
"The fact is that a chamber made from PVC pipe will do perfectly well as a vacuum chamber on one of our trucks. With no danger whatever. Mount it where the vacuum chamber would normally be mounted, and in the same way, and you'll be fine."
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