during my custom install of the PCV, breather filter, i found a foreign object lodged in that ?vacume? hose.. it was a bigg nasty copper pipe cleaner (OMG WTF!!), about 3 inches long. when i finaly pulled it out there were a lot of the copper bristles missing.... oo my poor engine.. now my cars idle is soooooooo nice! ..

-just a warning dont let anyone try and fix your max. that "thing" could have been sitting in my car since it came off the line...

the breather looks great!, thanx for all your help
ill get pics soon

 

mine have it to dont worry to much about it being there BTW what did u use to close the other end up

william

 

i cut it then screwed in a brass plug screw.. (auto zone 95 cents) then i used the 2 clamps on that piece

 

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did you get it from r&s Strauss.. Remeber you liked my pcv on my max..lol OOOOO silver>>>> so how is the max running>?

 

good, lol yea.. lol WOW NICE PCV !hehe.. i got the breather from pep boys.. it was in a box of sale items it "was" 9.99 but i got it for 6 BUCK! looks great!.. cool little custom set up

 

This is an old thread, but just wanted to mention that I also removed this vacumn hose recently on my 92 GXE, and found the same 'copper pipe cleaner' inside the hose. I'm unsure what function it serves, but am pretty sure this is the original vacumn hose...

--- Rupert

 

Do you have any pics of this? I'm kinda curious what this looks like and if this relates to VE's as well as VG's.

 

yeah i agree cuz my VE has a rough idle at times... it might be the same thing...i would like to see pics of this if you can get them soon

 

 

courtesy of dark lord bunny

 

cool thanks man... if i take the pipe cleaner thingy out will my car idle better?? as in what chrischeezer said

 

Could there be any disadvantage to removing this copper piece?

 

where is the breather on a VE engine cuz i am not sure where it is on my car...thanks ahead of time

 

its a custom set-up maximas dont have breathers

 

oh ok, i was referin to darklordbunny's pics where it says breather...well w/e tube that was i found it and it had the same "pipe cleaner" piece in it and i took it out, but imma keep it jus in case it was somewhat important

 

do you have any pics of he new setup?? if so, i'd like to see them posted b/c if it was a good mod i might have to steal the idea from you and try it out on my VE