Try pulling on the hose without removing the clamp. This way it comes out real easy and is also very easy to get back in if you attach the new one to the hose first.

Sorry to jump in here, but I just looked under the hood today and could not find the loaction and none of the links to this pic worked. Can someone PM me with the pic of its location under the hood on the 2K Maxs?
Thanks!

not the greatest pic, but you get the idea

This is a very educational thread

pulled it with hose

Thanks for the helpful info and the pics. I never would have found it! Sweet Threadage.

I was just needing this too. Excellent!!!

I second this method, it is usually tough to remove the clamp on the valve, just pull with the hose. Be careful, the last time I did it was cut my finger.

Cleaning the valve with a good carb cleaner every 10K miles is a good preventive maintainence measure. Once the valve is cleaned plug it back in, and start the car, if you can feel a strong vacuum on the other end of the hose, it is good to go....

hmm... on the 2002/2003 models they put the PCV way back behind the intake manifold where you can't reach it unless you're a mutant with double-jointed elbows and baby hands.

I was trying to find it for a while now. Haynes manual is no help either.

thanks

Also trying to find it on my 2000 max. The first pics obviously stopped working and the ones on the 2nd page here really aren't big enough to see good. Could someone post a giant picture of which hose it is, because I see two possible locations and both hoses are in pretty tight, I don't want to yank out the wrong one...

Haynes shows on earlier model only, and the service manual PDF doesn't seem to show it at all except as a tilted half-diagram (useless!). Thanks

As long as we're reviving this topic...

No parts store will sell me a PCV valve for a 2002/2003 Maxima. Apparently it's a dealer-only part. Will a 2000/2001 valve work?

Yup. Same situation with me. Tried 4 different parts stores. Now I'm just wondering where it is. I saw the pic in this thread but my girls Maxima is a 2003 and someone said that it's in a different location.

Why not just buy one from the dealer?

Sorry these are the best pics I could find for 02-03 PCV location ( catch can conversion) one end of this tube goes to the intake the other to the PCV at least you get the idea of the location. ( courtesy of The Law's thread)





http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=469585

1. Everything is always too expensive if you buy it from the dealer.
2. Some of the 2000/2001 owners have mentioned that the Purolator valves seem to be better constructed than the OEM ones.

I probably will end up buying one from my local dealer, but I try to stay away from them as much as possible. I see no reason to support a bunch of lowlife crooks who know nothing about the cars they sell and who feel that a $500 oil change can fix anything.

I buy some parts from my dealer because they are quality parts and I get a discount.

Yes, like others have said, pulling on the hose is a 100x easier than trying to remove the clamp. There's no room in there to do anything, and even yanking on the hose wasn't easy. Try to remove the hose from the other end first, it'll be a lot easier to put the new one in if the hose is completely removed.