Possibly careful light squirts of carb cleaner or ether bunny around the
hard plastic pipe to help locate while engine is running. It should make
the engine rev up a touch or make it sputter when close to the leak
On Feb 16, 2016 3:15 PM, "thewestyman" <zolo@foxinternet.net> wrote:

> Once I found the same problem.  That big black plastic pipe had a damage on
> that looked like some kind of melting and it was intermittent somehow.  But
> I fixed it by cutting and gluing in a piece of pipe between.  I must say,
> it
> was very hard to find this one because that melted part was swinging back
> and forth, opening and closing.
> But I got the bastard eventually,
> Zoltan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 12:44 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Vacuum leak
>
> Yes follow the vacuum line from the intake through the firewall.  Sounds
> like it is leaking where you can't see on the back side of the firewall.
>
> Ken
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 3:16 PM, John Rodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Have hard pedal. No brakes to speak off. Dennis Haynes said suspect a
>> vacuum leak. Have just gone over as best I could the vacuum lines in the
>> engine compartment. With the engine at idle I hear a very distinct sound
>> like someone drawing kn a deep breath. That to me is like air being wher
>> it
>> shouldn't. The noise is in the vicinity of the thermostat housing, but I
>> can't pinpoint it exactly. Is there any kind of vacuum line or device in
>> that area that I might be missing? It's fairly loud.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
>