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Need help identifying this
After very heavy rain on Saturday here in Dallas, my car developed a misfire. Found a good amount of rust and water in the coil/spark plug tubes from cylinders 5 & 6. Replaced all plugs and coil packs.
While putting everything back together I found this tucked under the intake runners. Need help finding out what it is, why it's disconnected, and why it was disconnected if on purpose? Clearly has vacuum lines but car is running fine. Thanks
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Do you have a functioning SAP system?
I think that is the actuator for the SAP vacuum control unit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Yup. Vacuum control valve.
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I hear the SAP running when I cold start the car (my entire neighborhood can with how loud it is). So the pump is there and still connected. No codes or CEL. Guess its time to remove the entire thing.
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Reconnect the vacuum control hose…LOL!!
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Well if the hoses were there then I would have. I searched everywhere around the intake manifold to figure out what it was before posting this with no luck.
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If you remove the secondary air pump and associated parts you'll need to install a SAP emulator, or you'll get a constant error code/CEL.
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The hoses that ran to and from that valve probably rotted and fell away. One end goes to intake, other to vacuum canister.
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