The mushy hose indicates that it is about gone. Time to replace. It will
start having little holes and will create vacuum related problems.

BTDT! I used a piece of heater hose as replacement. Works fine.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Tim Marciniak wrote:

> Is the crankcase breather pipe on the 2.1L just a straight pipe from
> the crankcase or is there something inside this pipe.  It seems
> fairly substantial to be just a breather pipe but I suppose it has to
> stand up to some high temperatures as well.  Also the hose from this
> pipe to the intact air ducts seems to be a little worn and seems to
> be collapsing on itself, not totally yet but the hose is very
> mushy--Is this normal.  My van is driveable and starts fine, I'm just
> trying to find out why it has lost power.  I'm suspecting a vacuum
> leak but cant tell for sure.  Just did a basic tuneup hoping that
> would cure this problem but it didnt.
>
> Tim
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