Very cool! Good to know!

Thanks,

John
On Feb 16, 2016 18:22, "Ralph Meyermann" <ralphmeyermann@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>