There is a short hose that connects the side port and the line going to the vacuum sensor. This hose isn't made of normal vacuum line and rots out badly.
The fresh air port on the back of the solenoid is suppose to have a hose that goes to this metal line on the firewall.
If you ever wondered why they didn't simply remove the large pipe that use to go to the valve cover when they did the recall, that's because it's attached to the small line.
big pipe with GREEN arrows. small pipe with RED arrows
And finally the small line connected to the air cleaner.
Thank you all amazing people, really helpful, I fixed the solonoid pipe, don't know how did I missed it... I will find the connection in the back for the smaller pipe...but if it is only grease air than I might even leave it like that
currently I am a little stuck with water pump removal, I removed all the bolts and nuts, placed them over at the new pump hols and they are all filled but the pup is still stuck... Any ideas?
TX, I got a lot of helpful information from that posts, one of it me sion the need to disassemble more bolts, using a fiber optic I have located two additional bolts on the lower side of the pump, please see image below, I took out the one marked blue but the pump is still rock solid, I will remove the other one tomorrow and see if it would help, as I understood the pump should get off without too much force
I will remove the other one tomorrow and see if it would help...
There's no need to guess which bolts are the water pump bolts. If you start removing unnecessary bolts, you're liable to be loosening the timing chain cover, which could lead to all sorts of leakage issues.
I hope you at least installed the clampbefore loosening/removing the water pump bolts.
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There's no need to guess which bolts are the water pump bolts. If you start removing unnecessary bolts, you're liable to be loosening the timing chain cover, which could lead to all sorts of leakage issues.
I hope you at least installed the clampbefore loosening/removing the water pump bolts.
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I did not. I have it in the new water pump kit and I didn't know what is it for, can you please elaborate more on the use, The water pump is still rock solid in place