For those who have gone though a wild goose chase chasing vacuum leaks
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From: el paso, tx, United States
if you can see my previous threads, you can see that i had a problem with my car dying on stoplights, stops, etc....well i had always heard a damn whistling noise coming from my engine bay, it would always irritate me...well i went though the whole end if all idle problems thread, and did the fitv adjustment, iacv cleaning with no results, then i thought if the manifold and lines going through it have all the vacuum replacing the gaskets + lines should get rid of it theoreticaly, well i did replace the iab gaskets and the vacuum lines with no results, so then i looked through all the youtube videos and tried using soapy water inside a spraying bottle and i would affect the idle but it was because the iab gaskets would start absorbing the soapy water from so much i was spraying, well one day i looked at my brake booster lines and started spraying them with no result, so i followed them and accidently sprayed the master cylinder, and i heard the sucking noise so i put my hand around the cylinder and was able to affect the pitch of the vacuum, and there you go, i bought myself a new seal rod gasket at honda, because autozone did not carry it, and now i feel my car a lot smoother and has a better pickup as well, so fellow luders don't disregard this seal as a possible vacuum leak source, I HAD TWO YEARS WITH THIS DAMN VACUUM LEAK, hopefully this can help someone else with vacuum leaks in the future
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