Robin127

Has anyone got any ideas where I can pick up one of these? It's a vacuum hose connector that pushes into the back of the throttle body on a 1989 2.7 RS.

I need one complete with the vacuum hoses moulded into it. I've tried Rock Auto, Ebay and some other forums with no luck.

OrangeBird

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Take that rubber piece , enlarge the holes SLIGHTLY using a drill bit where the hard black plastic tubing was coming out of it , and then get some new hard black plastic tubing from your local autoparts store and shove it into the enlarged holes . Sure , it won't be a factory premade vacuum hose assembly , but it will allow you to reconnect the vacuum lines to the throttlebody and make the system complete .

PS , your engine is a 2.8 , and , if you so desire you can replace the hard (brittle) plastic with regular flexible rubber vacuum hose right after you get a small length of hard tubing put back into the rubber block . About an inch of hard plastic tubing sticking out oughta be plenty to slip some rubber hose onto and then run the hose to where the original plastic hard line was running to . As long as the appropriate devices see the vacuum they are supposed to , it doesn't matter if that vacuum is supplied from a rubber hose or a plastic tubing ....