I ended up not getting the second trooper, instead I will be concentrating on fixing this one up first. One scary thing about the other one is that it was fairly high miles and the guy had no clue when it got the last timing belt. I might still buy the thing, but not this month, and if I do buy it, it will get a new timing belt when I consider it a keeper.

the 86 I have now is something I think will be a keeper, but it has some idle issues which I strongly suspect would be solved by eliminating the spaghetti of vacuum hoses running around the carb, manifolds, air intake and smog pump. That, and when examining what comes off when the Weber kit goes on, it looks like a whole lot of that stuff would be going away.

I live in a state where the Weber kit is street legal, so installing it should not be an issue that way, but I have some questions, and hopefully someone else here who has done the weber carb upgrade can answer.

OK, the weber kit has its own air cleaner so I can guess the OEM aircleaner assembly goes bye bye. What about the vacuum stuff that hooks up to it? It also looks to me that if the OEM air cleaner assembly gets removed, there should go some stuff that the smog pump had been attached to, so that would be going too. Now that involves what looks like a few electrical connections, on the driver side inner fender, right below the main fuse blocks. If I am disconnecting a bunch of that stuff as part of the Weber upgrade, is that going to permanently trigger the "check engine" light?

Does anyone have a picture of the 86 trooper engine compartment with a Weber kit installed?

Tomorrow if the weather does not suck, I am doing new brakes on the trooper. No bother with machining the front rotors since I just bought new ones on ebay for only slightly more than it costs to get rotors machined anyway.