|
My throttle body has two vacuum lines coming off the top, both running to the charcoal canister up front.
The larger port (toward front) uses a rubber vacuum line. It has been spliced with a plastic connector. The original line has split and come loose at the canister and at the spliced connection about six inches from the throttle body port.
I replaced it with the larger of the two sizes of braided IPD stuff from their HD Vacuum Line Replacement Kit. The IPD line seems to be a bit softer - which worries me a bit - but the vacuum on that line is not powerful, so I doubt it will collapse. (The braided cloth exterior seems a little silly to me. It gets filthy much faster than plain rubber, but whatever...)
The rear, smaller port had a 90ยบ soft rubber elbow with some very narrow ID (about half that of the two ports it connects) hard plastic vacuum line. I replaced that with the smaller of the two braided IPD lines. It seems to match up with the size of the ports better. Is there a problem with what I have done? I can easily replace this with the older, smaller hard plastic line with the rubber elbow if need be.
Also, the canister had a two-line rubber connector (about 1.5" long) that connected the two canister ports to the two lines. Mine was shot, so I cut free the small side and connected the new line to is directly. I cut open the ruined half and it appears to be a connector only with nothing magical inside. I always prefer to have what the engineers wanted, so I would like to know what this double hose connector is properly called and a clue as to where I can fine a replacement.
Is there a problem with my setup, meaning having the small line connecting directly to the canister like the other end, slipped over the port? It seems to work...
Anyone?
Pics can be posted if my description is not adequate.
Thanks!
--
Mama always told me to eschew obfuscation...
|
