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LeeLee D
11-02-2006, 02:04 AM
and I stop at a light. I have my heater on and all of a sudden i get this strong smell of oil, unburnt fuel and whatever else coming into my face.

I start driving, smell goes away. Stop, it comes back. The car is still running fine at this point, somehow.

When I get to work, I pop my hood to find that 2 of my Vaccum hoses on my intake have ripped and came off of where there were supposed to be. My PCV and the hose near the throttle body were just sitting there connected to nothing.

Somehow the Silicon ripped where it connects to the engine, it either crapped out cause they were cheap or when i first put them on I might hae cut it poorly. Luckily I had lots of extra on the hose so I just cut new ends and stuck them back on.

warrior
11-02-2006, 05:55 AM
So everything works now?

Wiscon_Mark
11-02-2006, 09:14 AM
How did the engine not kill itself when you stopped?!

If you ripped off the Idle air bypass, it should've died pretty quickly, since the MAF wouldn't have gotten any reading...

sheepdog
11-02-2006, 11:13 AM
it was probably just leaking badly or something until he opened it up. Thats how my vacuum lines were on the turbo, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I was boost spiking. Rotted hoses were the answer.

LeeLee D
11-02-2006, 02:02 PM
How did the engine not kill itself when you stopped?!

If you ripped off the Idle air bypass, it should've died pretty quickly, since the MAF wouldn't have gotten any reading...

The Idle Air bypass hose was the only one that didnt break. The other 2 though ripped off of where there should have plugged in on the engine

mr_choung
11-03-2006, 09:28 AM
^ shouldn't that give your a CEL? it did to me after installing intake lolz....

Wiscon_Mark
11-03-2006, 09:38 AM
^ shouldn't that give your a CEL? it did to me after installing intake lolz....

That's because you didn't reset the ECU and it detected a whole new airflow in there.

It probably would've thrown one, but it sounds like he stopped fairly quickly after it happened.