Talk about wanting to choke an automotive engineer or seven:

The black duct work (didjanotice the gorilla tape repair? it’s been on there for four years) is the intake. We aren’t in the area of the leaking hose yet.

The hose in the bottom center of the pic has a pinhole leak under the visible clamp. The other clamp is tucked under the throttle body. I have to remove the throttle body just to touch the clamp with more than a finger.

Not looking like an easy repair yet.

Sure is black in the throttle body. I’ll worry about that later. The clamp on the right side is the same one from two pictures ago. The hidden clamp has been removed and the hose is ready to come off. I took it off, went to O’Reilly’s, and wonder of wonders they had the exact hose I needed in stock on the shelf. Bought some anti-freeze while I was there.

Sure wish I had looked closer at this picture before I ran to O’Reilly’s. It would have saved me a trip. The sharp-eyed among you have already noticed that the shaped hose was not the major leak source. Yes, I had this puppy buttoned back up before you could say Jack Frost – fired it up, and was floored when water was leaking out from the same spot. I tore it back apart, and got the offending short hose off – I had to cut it, and wrestle the clamps off. Another run to O’Reilly’s, a section of straight hose (and some gasket material, because my haste caused me to break off a piece of the gasket, and I had to make a new one … ) and I was ready to button it up again.

This one shows the new shaped hose in place – notice the lower hose, just lurking there, laughing quietly to itself as I stand back and take a picture of my handiwork, confident that I have solved the issue …

All buttoned up, ready to go. After I replaced the lower hose, I had lost any sense of wanting to take pictures, so I didn’t take a second picture after the final assembly. Someplace along the line, I shorted something out, and the Rhino wouldn’t start. Pastor Mike suggested I disconnect the battery, and let the computer reset. Initially, it still wouldn’t start. After a little time, it finally started. Like a dummy, I had not disconnected the battery before disconnecting the electrical connections you saw in the first picture.

Lesson learned.

Update – turns out the starter solenoid is fried. or frying. it occasionally starts, but just as occasionally it decides not to. i have to beat it with blunt objects to get it’s attention. not too bad when you are dressed for working on the car, but in your white dockers and light-colored polo shirt, it wreaks havoc on the clothing. oh, and it was raining today when i got off work and the solenoid didn’t want to work.

Chat ya later…

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