1990 camaro 305 tbi. I’m trying to replace the damn heater control hose that goes into the intake. As usual this has become a fun job since it’s an 80’s,90’s era car and has a rats nest of hoses and wires everywhere and off course we have to have vacuum ports and modules and all sorts of bullshit right next to the hose port near the distributior.

anyway,whoever the idiot was who worked on this before me put the clamp with the hex head facing the wrong way so I can’t yet a screw driver or socket on it so I carefully used a large screwdriver to slide thencollar around and then it slipped and now I notice this thing. Can someone tell me where it goes and what it is and provide a photo of what hooks to it?

honestly,these are nice looking cars,but every time I look under the hood I want to just start driving 50’s cars everyday again.

 

Just checked my 92 305 tbi & there's supposed to be a vac hose running from that spot to your intake...

 

It looks like a one way check valve. Good news is that it looks like a new piece of hose should slip on that one yet.

 

Correctum (a new laxative?) that is a check valve.

Hanging on a peg on a card in the Help! section of yer local parts store. Probably in the area where PCV valves and various other vacuum goodies are also hung.

I see you on here ALOT Jim. You should probably spend more time in auto parts stores; just kinda walk in, look around, browse, scope it out. If you have a female SO, subject yourself JUST ONCE to watching her look around a shoe or handbag (? not sure that's the right word for that) or cheeeeeep earring store. Do that same thing JUST ONCE in an auto parts store. Look at EVERY SINGLE area. Don't shy away just because you don't know what it is or haven't ever thought you'd buy one, JUST LOOK. You might be AMAZED at what you could learn about your car.

 

Lol! Sofakingdom,this is the only car I own besides my Rockford Esprit that doesn’t have fins. Lol. I hate all this extra stuff that breaks!
I was able to figure out where the vacuum line went and then tried to push it on and the whole plastic funnel pushed in and broke off.....guess I’m heading back to the damn auto parts store. Lol. I can’t win!

 

Lol! I think every guy has been stuck watching their girlfriend shop before. It’s one of the most boring experiences there is. You have to understand that I really hate new cars. This is the newest car I find attractive and can tolerate mechanically. My area of expertise is 1957-61 cars. I know every part of them and maintain them all myself. I detest the 1980’s and later technology with all the smog bullshit ,fuel injection and all these plastic vacuum lines.
Autoparts stores are full of modern day stuff,I don’t enjoy looking at that! Lol.

 

Here’s another picture of the broken part. I looked on Autozone’s website and I could not find it. I looked under check valve.

 

Don't bother with the web site. PHYSICALLY GET OUT OF YOUR CHAIR and go to the store and look. It'll be hanging there right before your eyes.

These cars are just about as simple as dirt. Yeah, I go back almost to WW 2, obviously a good bit farther back than you, but in retrospect, there's not all that much more to these than to those back then. If you can't handle the "complexity", you have no business posting on teh Interwebz. Since it's FAR more complicated than ANYTHING about some 80s car.

In case you haven't figured out my message here, SUCK IT UP BUTTERCUP. Ya wanna play, ya gotta pay. In this case, it's a matter of LEARNING stuff, and allowing information to SEEP INTO your head, instead of erecting barriers to keeping it out, under the rationalization of "it's hard". GROW UP AND GROW A PAIR.

Get up outta yer armchair and LOOK AT THE PARTS in the store. You'll amaze yourself, if you only allow it to happen, how SIMPLE it is to find stuff like that. Don't come in here and bitch about "it's too hard" and expect the rest of us to spoon-feed you somehow. That's P**** behavior, and nobody likes that. Let alone, RESPECTS it. Don't sink to the level of one of THOSE.

 

Don't waste a trip. If that short section connecting the valve to the hard line is a representation of the rest of your vac lines please grab a few feet of vac hose too... just in case...

 

“Sofakingdom”,youre out of line! You don’t know anything about me,or how hold I am. Not that my age should matter. You’re obviously retired and have free time.I don’t. I work for a living and need to get this fixed. That’s why I asked for help here. That’s what the forums are for.
I don’t recall ever calling anyone here names or being disrespectful to any member previously,including you. In fact most of the folks here have been very nice and helpful. Perhaps if you can’t manage to civil then maybe you shouldn’t be on the “interwebs”. I’m sure when you’ve worked on cars before you’ve got frustrated and “bitched” about it too,especially when things weren’t going well. It was 100 degrees out and I was working on
this outside at the time I posted. And yes,these cars are more complicated than 50’s and 60’s cars. There’s all sorts of vacuum lines and smog bullshit on them,as well a computer,electronic modules,fuel injectors and sensors cars don’t have. Just replacing the fuel pump is an ordeal. It isnt that way on the old cars. Everything’s buried and there’s parts in areas that are very difficult to get too.
And by the way,for your edification I wasn’t sitting in “my armchair” when I posted this,I was
outside in 100 degree weather with coolant and grease all over my arms trying to get the
part of the hose that goes into the intake loose but there wasn’t room to get a socket back
there because of the way the car is designed. But thanks for the insults ,calling me a
“buttercup” a “*****” ,telling me in “need to grow a pair” and implying I don’t want to learn anything amongst all the other lovely comments.
By the way nobody respects that type of behavior either. Nobody wants to be spoon fed belligerent bullshit. The whole point of this site is for
people to share information and to be able to ask questions. If you felt that my question was
stupid you didn’t need to reply to it. Guess you replied to “bitch” .
This site it one of the places where people learn.

 

I'm not defending anyone, I'm not choosing sides. Sofa has ROASTED me too, but it led me to buying a GM Service manual, reading between the lines, and learning things I thought for sure were beyond my capabilities

Moral... Don't take it personal

 

Thanks “92rs” for the advice,I bought more vacuum line to replace all the old stuff. I appreciate you and all the other kind members who have helped me out over the years. The world would be a heck of a lot better place if people treated each other the way they’d like to be treated themselves.

 

Thank you Jim!! I always want to be told that I'm "out of line". Especially by lazy people.

Awwww, I'm so sorry, that was so politically incorrect, I'm simply devastated with sorrow that I actually MOTIVATED YOU to get up off ye lazy spoon feeding A$$ and DO SOMETHING on yer own behalf instead of DEMANDING that everybody else SPOON FEED YOU at your command.

So, tell us ALL, when you actually GOT UP OFF YER LAZY A$$ and went acoupla blocks down to the corner parts store and TOOK YOUR FATE IN YOUR OWN HANDS as opposed to being s whiny 2-yr-old "gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme" what I want and EXERTED YOURSELF, did you find what you were looking for, hanging on the pegs in blister-pack right before your very eyes?

Please PLEASE PLEASE call me those terrible self-entitled names you people all seem to like to use on those of us who WORK for what we have. I relish the opportunity to call you LAZY and ENTITLED and WORTHLESS.

What did you find hanging on the pegs down the street?

 

And I am NOT retired, and I do NOT have "free time", and you're still LAZY if you won't get up off yer GD keyboard and go down to the corner and LOOK AT what's hanging on the pegs. I was in El Paso, Las Cruces, Silverdale, Palm Springs, and Banning last week; this week is a walk in the park, I was only in Wilmington DE yesterday and have to be in Minneapolis tomorrow. Some of us are willing to WORK for what we have.

 

Thanks. I appreciate that. There’s a difference between offering someone constructive criticism and being condescending,insulting and acting like a dick. He crossed into that territory with comments like “suck it up buttercup”,telling me to “grow a pair” (what is this
grade school?) stating that I need to “get out of my armchair”,the comment about “*****”
behavior,etc.
As I said,I’ve never had a run in with him before,and don’t know him and he doesn’t know me. He may well be a great guy. But those kind of comments were uncalled for. I hardly think they reflect the spirit in which this site was created.

 

Welcome to REAL LIFE, buttercup.

Your comments are UNCALLED FOR. You're one of those entitled self-absorbed "gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme if you don't you're ...." not sure what ... useless ENTITLED blood suckers. Unless of course you GET UP OFF YOUR LAZY BUTT and go down to the corner parts store and LOOK AT what's hanging on the pegs. Which I'm like SO SURE, you being the intelligent motivated powerful valuable member of society that you are, you've ALREADY done.

What was the part # of the piece you found? (don't worry, I'll post it FOR YOU in the morning on my way to the airport while I'm going to WORK if you're too LAZY to admit you found it yourself)