IC Hose comes off... put it back on and I'm not so sure

[hayes myers]

i have a three piece hose inplace... which has a foam filter in the middle.
is this a catchcan? so three piece pipe basically. yeah i'm gonna take it
off and put it back on. good placet ot start.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:16 AM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:

> You may also want to remove the lower hose ENTIRELY and inspect it
> carefully. It's fairly stiff and thick rubber, which means a tear in it may
> not be obvious when the hose is still in the car. Found this out the hard
> way on my MC2 89 200Q. My big vac leak was the lower IC hose (not cheap to
> replace either), the other, relatively minor one was the Igloo. Even more
> minor, but still factors were the valve cover gasket and the oil filler cap
> gasket.
>
> HTH,
>
> LL - NY
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:49 AM, hayes myers <hayesmyers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 91 200 tqm 10v engine. sorry.  It looks like i'll have to redo the job i
>> did last night.  what a pita that is. oh well. i get to sleep in
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:31 PM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What car?
>>>
>>> FWIW, if your old IC had leaks, they may have been the weak link in your
>>> system. Now that those leaks are plugged, you may be discovering more leaks.
>>> If you can rig a pressure tester (keep it below 8 psi, and good luck if
>>> you've an MC finding something to fit) it's time to poke around.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> LL - NY
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:00 PM, hayes myers <hayesmyers at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Recently changed the intercooler.  Things were running fine until the
>>>> lower
>>>> intercooler hose came off a block from home. got a bud to tow me.
>>>>
>>>> put the hose back on. (hopefully it is on right).
>>>>
>>>> car starts now... but has rough low idle.  when i gas it the engine revs
>>>> freely ..however let off the gas and even at 750 it sounds like it wants
>>>> to
>>>> die.
>>>>
>>>> Before it would bog down but not to the point of really stalling like
>>>> this.
>>>>
>>>> Other point was on the highway on the way home i thoguht i finally heard
>>>> the
>>>> vacuum leak i've been looking for (guess i surely did hear something)...
>>>> and
>>>> thn off she went.  i'm wondering if running with the IC potentially
>>>> leaking
>>>> could have caused this running problem i hav now or perhaps it is my
>>>> hosed
>>>> ic hose job.
>>>>
>>>> If this points to poor seating of the IC hose then that's at least a
>>>> starting point for me.
>>>>
>>>> Any input appreciated. I'll be wrenchin early.
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