Hi Forum,

I had a new hood and hinges put on my ’91 350SDL and when I got it back from the body shop, I noticed it shifted hard. Thanks to the forum here, I was able to determine it was a vacuum problem and not an expensive transmission problem! I traced the leak to this spot and I tapped up the hose here on the left to stop the air leak from the hose on the right that I am holding, to make the tranny shift smoothly again for the short term fix, but want to get it right.



I seem to have found the culprit, a vacuum hose to nowhere, right around where they were working to install the new hood hinges - said they had to remove the fron left fender to do it.



I have no decent reference material to see where it should go. I have included a picture of it in case someone knows off hand where I should start digging.

Since my climate controls don’t switch from defrost, I am looking at this as the likely connection, but where should this hose enter the car? Where should I open up the car and where should I connect this tube? What will I have to remove? Argh!!!



It is black with a white pin stripe.

See picture

Thanks all!

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Providence, RI
Current Fleet:
1991 MB 350 SDL running 2 tank Frybrid Waste Vegetable Oil
2005 Toyota Prius
1997 40' Bluebird Wanderlodge motorhome running running world's first 3 tank Frybrid Waste Vegetable Oil