Looks like a vacuum booster pump for cruise control.

> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:52:28 -0600
> From: vanagonhummingbird@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Can Anyone Identify This "Thing"?
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> Hi Volks,
> 
> Okay don't laugh... well maybe a little!
> 
> This is my first vanagon, so I've never really seen in and around the engine
> bay before and being a WBX it looks nothing like what I am used to engines
> looking like! Anyway, whilst messing around with the radiator fan motor
> yesterday (thanks to all), I came across some wires that were just hanging
> around and not terminated. One was a ribbon type cable and looked out of
> place on the van. Well I stripped them out today, and find that they are
> connected to this "Thing" that I had assumed served some useful purpose back
> in the engine bay, mounted on the LHS on the sidewall.
> 
> Well I would like to remove said "Thing", but I'm not sure what to do with
> the two "lines" that are somehow connected into the van. One runs forward
> between the gearbox and the gas tank and disappears. The second tee's off
> into a pipe running from the intake manifold forward (sorry not sure what it
> does). When I start the motor with it disconnected it creates a vacuum on
> that line
> 
> I've posted some pics of the thing to a spare page on my website here: The
> Thing - http://tinyurl.com/6dlp4d
> 
> It also had a wire connected to the feed to the coil.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Paul

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