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I have a 93 se. Can anyone tell me what the hose is for that is on the back side of the motor towards the top and passenger side. It is a much larger hose than the normal vaccuum lines and it has a clamp on the loose end. Because of the clamp, I feel this hose is meant to connect somewhere, but do not know where. Can anyone help me with this? Also, can anyone give me details on the Alternator problems that are common with the 3rd gen?

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That hose sounds like the PCV positive crankcase ventilation hose. The PCV valve is located at the bottom of that hose and screws into the motor. The hose runs from the PCV (on passenger side) over to the drivers side where it re-enters the intake manifold.

The alternators typically go bad overtime. its a design flaw in the stator (I think its the stator), but anyway I opened mine up and found that the Brushes burn into the stator, the brushes are fine, its just that the metal that it picks the current up from gets eaten away. Mine has 95000 miles on it and still running.