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So my 951 blew a mystery hose 2 weeks ago. In an attempt to get the part number, all I have to go on is this:

After checking various parts websites and looking over the diagrams, I think I find the right hose. I order and wait an unusually long two weeks for it to finally come. Check them out and not sure if I get the right one after seeing them side by side:

I guess the old one may just be bloated from bursting so I continue and replace it. At some point while reaching over half of the engine bay, I knock my screw driver down below the brake fluid reservoir. I tried to fish it out with another tool and drop that too, yay:
Note the flashlight strap in the foreground. Guess what else dropped below the brake fluid reservoir after I fished out the yellow tool?

What feels like days later I finally have both flashlight and screwdriver back. Yellow tool falls back in. I cut my losses and continue.

I finally get the hose on both ends after taking it on and off figuring out that the hose clamps want to be on different sides this time around. The clamp closer to the firewall is a pain to tighten and decides it wants to partially strip while I'm doing gymnastics over the engine to get it in. I give up and sit on the engine while still contorting myself and my wrist trying to tighten this last hose clamp.

Finally everything is back on, and I go to reconnect the sensors. Also being 30 years old, one decides to deteriorate:

I'll save the joy of replacing the sensor another day.

Thanks for reading, feel like I had to get this written out before I go mad.
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