Need help with oil line question
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Need help with oil line question
please dont bust my azz....i searched.... i looked but cant find a straight answer.....the line that runs off or the oil filler neck, what does it connect to or does it?...the end of kinda looks like its broken and has a scoop looking end....theres a little bit of oil on the top of my engine and not sure where it came from....added sum oil yesterday and my buddy hit my arm and i think i added a litte too much(im gonna get a catch can by the way)...no oil in intake and im gonna clean my MAF too......just want to know where the line goes....thanks.............its an 04 manual
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chino thanks for the quick response......i dont know if im having a stupid moment or what but i just cant clearly see where the line connects to.....can you tell me please....thanks again man.....i really appreciate it....from my pic can you tell if my line is broken?
It connects to the intake right on top of the rubber accordion piece. But by the picture it looks like the eblow broke off. Could you please take another picture of the intake and throttle body.
ok the scoop piece is a broken piece. Look around the rubber accordion and you will find the other broken piece. I would go outside and take a picture for you but its dark and raining
I just ran outside and looked. If standing at the fron of the car and looking at the rubber accordion piece there are t connections on top and 1 connection halfway down on the left side there an eblo comes out and connects your loose hose
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it was like that when i got it......what do think has been done and why.....if i leave that tube disconnected it will just blow oil....correct....i wonder if the disconnected line was just capped off before and it blew the cap.......idk
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so basically my free hose is supposed to be where the bolt is......ive had my car for 1 year and this has never happened before and i always check my oil at every other fill up
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Yeah, someone broke the elbow off and stuck a bolt in there. No real big deal if you are going to run a catch can. then you probably won't be running it back to the intake anyway.
If I were you, I would either get an elbow and re-attach it where it should be.......(but you might not be able to since who ever put the bolt in there might have screwed it up so it won't take the elbow)................or just pull out the remaining plastic piece from that hose and plug up iy up. You could also just remove that entire hose, leave the bolt, and just got get a tight fitting end cap and put it on the oil filler neck.
If/when you get a catch can, that hose will come off and be replaced by another and you will probably just vent the catch can and not bring it back to the intake anyway. See the attached pic.
If I were you, I would either get an elbow and re-attach it where it should be.......(but you might not be able to since who ever put the bolt in there might have screwed it up so it won't take the elbow)................or just pull out the remaining plastic piece from that hose and plug up iy up. You could also just remove that entire hose, leave the bolt, and just got get a tight fitting end cap and put it on the oil filler neck.
If/when you get a catch can, that hose will come off and be replaced by another and you will probably just vent the catch can and not bring it back to the intake anyway. See the attached pic.
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