Bob Loblaw

I have been noticing a small amount of oil on the concrete slab in my carport recently and have made an appointment to take my car in to have it looked at (but not until next Wednesday).

When I got home today, I cracked the hood to have another look around and found a cracked, no wait, blown open hose on the top of the backside of the engine! Can you guys tell me what hose this is?? Should I be parking the car and leaving her at home? Or is this un-related to my oil leak??

Thanks in advance...

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needforsleep

There is a VIN split for this part.

06B 103 221 B
06B 103 221 F &gt;&gt; 8E-3-500 000

Bob Loblaw

If they can get me in earlier then a week from now, maybe I'll leave it there.

Bob Loblaw

And thanks, BTW

Kaleli

And not severely detrimental to normal car operations.

Bob Loblaw

Would the hose carry anything besides vapor off the engine? Enought to make a drip like a small oil leak?

tree580

I had the same hose fail...plenty driveable and probably unrelated to the oil leak.

Spinnetti

I was thinking of routing that to a catch can with a breather filter instead of that nasty junk coating the valves and heating the intake air (it does, and badly)..

Mrkrad

sure blowby is common when the cars get older..

shadyraven

This problem has been reported here a few times. Looks like an easy fix.