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Old 01-06-2004, 04:23 AM
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Re: replacing 87 300e distributor cap and rotor

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Originally posted by dirtysocks


Also, I had a quick question about the vacuum line that starts in the air filter and loops back under it. Anybody know where it goes and what it does? Is it easy to replace? It broke (brittle as hell, like thin uncooked pasta!) when I was tooling around the other day and I have it "ghetto rigged" to work right now but want to replace the whole line. I cannot get the air filter housing off without ruining the fabulous rigging I did, thus I decided to consult the forum before removing anything.

Thanks in advance for all replies.
I had the same problem with brittle plastic. I broke the plastic line from the breather hose that goes under the air cleaner to the fuel pressure regulator, at least on my 300SE. I used a piece of hose fix it temporarily. I'll get a few feet of line and replace all those hoses.

On all my other FI cars, the FPR vacuum line goes to the intake manifold, or at least the throttle body area. I think it's rather odd that the vacuum point is at the air cleaner. Maybe mine is hooked up wrongly.

I don' know about the distributor cap, I haven't replaced mine yet.
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