Hi Everyone! I've had such great help in the past, I thought I'd try again. I hope some day I'll know enough to answer a question!

I tried starting my car the other day. It started but then the whole car sort of shook and rumbled and then quit. It would turn over but not start. I nosed around under the hood and found that hose that looks like accordian aluminum and about 2-1/2" in diameter was hooked into a metal pipe behind the lower part of the engine was easily removed from the pipe. It seemed like it should be tighter around the pipe so I took a metal hose clamp and tightend and lo' and behold, the engine started!! So then I looked in my Haynes manual for the car and could not find the name of that hose or what it was hooked up to so that I could tell if there is a part missing or not. Since the rock guard is missing, that piece (if there is one) could have been lost anywhere down the road.

Does anyone have any idea what I'm trying to describe and if so, do you know if I'm missing a part? I don't want to take the car out and get stuck somewhere if my "repair" isn't really one.

And as usual, help, please???!!

1993 Volvo 850 Sedan and it's gold (but not golden..) and
Just 243 miles less than 200,000! Marcia in Seattle