Can you identify this part?

[VARam1500]

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.....



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'.

[Ron Meier]

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

Do I win the money?

[Brad Roberts]

You win Ron.

The giveaway that it isnt Porsche:

The hose clamps.

It appears to be GM.

B

[VARam1500]

Originally posted by Ron Meier
As soon as you find it on the teener, let me know, I've been looking for mine

Do I win the money?

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!

--Case...

[Dave at Pelican Parts]

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

--DD

[Roland Kunz]

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

[VARam1500]

Originally posted by Dave at Pelican Parts
Have you checked the vacuum diagrams available elsewhere on this site?

--DD

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....

[VARam1500]

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

[Dave at Pelican Parts]

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

[VARam1500]

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....

[Brad Roberts]

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