i know this is stupid but i was installing my new intake and i wanted to put a breather on the valve cover..except i cant because of the old "pipe" that is connected from the valve cover to the intake.. so i decided to cut it with the sawzall but ended up cutting the wrong pipe. this is hard to explain but i have a picture to show. i was trying to remove the pipe highlighted in red...so i cut around the green circle area and busted that pipe, causing coolant to come out. how do i fix this!!

Took picture off cause it is too big and problem is solved.


Modified by MRturbo at 12:55 PM 4/5/2007


Modified by MRturbo at 9:13 PM 4/5/2007

 

Find a local salvage yard or post in the market place to find a new pipe. You can try to run a temporary hard line in place of the cut one.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Dogginator &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Find a local salvage yard or post in the market place to find a new pipe. You can try to run a temporary hard line in place of the cut one.</TD></TR></TABLE>

i have seen some people who dont even have one....is that doable ??

 

I think that particular coolant line feeds the throttle body. Many people bypass this, as it heats the throttle body. If I am correct, just bypass it for now. When winter returns, you may want to reconnect it.

 

just remove the metal pipe all together and take the rubber hose to autozone advanced etc and get enough of the same size to go from one connection to the other without using the metal piece anymore

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by coptzer &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">just remove the metal pipe all together and take the rubber hose to autozone advanced etc and get enough of the same size to go from one connection to the other without using the metal piece anymore </TD></TR></TABLE>

Exactly, I see no reason why these are even metal from the factory. Rubber hoses will work fine. I replaced those metal tubes with rubber hoses about 75K miles ago.

 

 

thanks alot guys!!

 

hah a friend and i did the same thing we tried to dremel the metal pipes apart and it ended up cutting them both =/ we just went out and got some rubber hose to replace the coolant line