ThunderGrey27OffSuit

The saga continues....

Yesterday afternoon I went out into the driveway to replace my vacuum hoses after a spiteful tongue-lashing from MrD about being a lazy bastard. So I get out there while it's still drizzling cursing his name and start disassembly so I can access the vacuum ball to hook that up.

Get in there and noticed first, the hose was toast. Second, laying on the block near the valve cover down below the ball is a 4" length of black hose with a washer and a 2" length screw holding it to the end of the hose, screwed into the ID of the hose. WTF? Who knows. Anyways, try to reconnect the hose just for good measure and noticed there's nothing in the ball to connect to. Disconnect the ball and look inside fitting. No nipple, just something like the edge of broken plastic where I imagine the nipple should be. Christ.

So moving right along I decide a new vacuum ball is in order. I decide to work on the lines and start pulling. And pulling. And pulling. Damn they're not coming off but stretching and being bastards. After 5 mins of that I think I replaced one hose of 20. Started to rain, went back inside.

Vacuum Hoses: 2
Alec: 0

Today I had too much crap to handle during the work day to mess with them and now it's raining again. I did however get my new coolant tank (yay! new style, oops) and remote (yay! 97 style, crap). Mike I got a free remote for ya, along with that oil filter the next time I see you.

Mr.D-'97 A4q 12v

replacing it. I bet the same person who did that lost the one vac ball bolt and sheared off the one for the coil pack. Nice.

I had to use a razor blade to split a few of the vacuum lines to get them off.

Thanks! I could use another remote. One of mine is toast.

MM120

:-p j/k

ThunderGrey27OffSuit

Hehehe.

MM120

ha ha