Can you identify this part?
 

Hi again, all. My car came like a big Testors model--the big part of the car is recognizable but the rest came as loose parts in a box. The PO took a lot of it apart for rust repair and then never put it back together. Here is a part that I can't figure out what to do with. It may not even be part of this car. Does it look familiar to anyone? The car is a '75 1.8L. Thanks!

--Case.....

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rubber hose about 14" long with top hat cap on one end. Loose end has a spring clamp. Top hat end has a spring clamp at the connection, a small fitting with a rubber cap on it, and a coarse plastic grille inside the 'hat'.

If I were to hazzard a guess, it is a vacuum hose for a power brake booster. Runs from manifold to the hole in the "can" to place a vacuum on the diaphram. Not sure what the small diameter port is for unless a vacuum guage could be hooked to it for a test.

As soon as you find it on the teener, let me know, I've been looking for mine:D

Do I win the money?

You win Ron.

The giveaway that it isnt Porsche:

The hose clamps.

It appears to be GM.

B

Do you win? Well, ......I guess so. It's kinda hard for me to say since I didn't know what it was to begin with! ;) Since B thinks you are, throw the virtual confetti and turn on the flashing lights!

That's the only part I have that really seemed out of place with this project. I have two braided vacuum hoses that I don't know what to do with, too. Both are the larger diameter. One is about 20" long that I think goes between the decel valve and the intake. But this one I can't get to slip on to either of those fittings. The second one is about 3' long and I have no idea what to do with it.

Thanks for playing 'name that part'! Let us all know if you do find that booster! :D

--Case...

Have you checked the vacuum diagrams available elsewhere on this site?

--DD

Hello

Close up would be nice. Maybe something emmision relatet ?
Any part or manufactorer signs on the parts ?

Similar clamps had be used from Porsche for non pressure applications.

You will find them on the waterdrainhoses.

Grüsse

Dave--
Yes, I did find the vacuum hose layout diagram on the site (man, there's a lot of info around here!). That's where I see the short hose between the decel valve and the intake. I just can't get that one onto the fittings (real tight).

This diagram leads to another question. The diagram shows a Y connection from the throttle body inlet to both the oil filler and egr valve. I have no Y there. My hose goes only to the oil filler and not to the egr valve. I don't appear to have an egr valve. But the funny thing is that I do have the 7" line from the distributor (advance?) shown in yellow. It's just hanging. Since I don't have an egr, I don't have the T line connecting egr and trottle body to the distributor. Any idea where this hanging line plugs up?

I really appreciate the help, guys!

--Case....

Roland is right. I found some more of the spring clamps on the charcoal canister.

If there is no fitting on the throttle body for it, then the yellow line does not hang up onto anything at all.

In 74 some/many/all of the US-spec 914s lost their vacuum advance, probably for emissions reasons. The cheap way for VW/Porsche to do this was to use the same distributor dashpot (two fittings) and stop installing the advance fitting onto the throttle body. So that's what they did.

They ran a hose from the advance fitting on the dashpot down under the manifold and didn't hook it up. That was mostly so new owners wouldn't freak out when they saw a fitting that obviously should have a hose with nothing on it. Don't cap the fitting, though, as I hear that interferes with the retard function.

--DD

Dave, thanks so much! That is fantastic information. I mean, not so much fantastic for the car but fantastic that someone (like you) knows enough about years of differences in the cars! I'm glad I was able to describe it so you knew what I was talking about.

Thanks again!

--Case....

Ah ha !!

I think its a vacuum brake booster hose for a Carrera.

That's my final answer.

Oh.. I found several of those clamps on the drain tubes for the dash fan drains.

B