What is this hose for?
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What is this hose for?
Does anyone know what this hose is for? It's a metallic type of hose and it was really frayed and didn't even attach very well so I had to cut part of it off and now it doesn't attach at all because it is too short. It is located right behind the water pump. It's just laying there while the 240 is running.
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Pgesualdo (09-21-2021)
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yeah, thats really only needed in places that get ungodly cold
basically, there's a mechanical thermostat flap in the bottom of the airbox, if its really cold out, it opens, and sucks air in from that hose instead of from the normal plastic duct behind the headlight. the other end of that hose goes to a heat exchanger on the exhaust headers so it can suck in air thats preheated by said headers.
i just had the airbox out of my 850 turbo yesterday, and note that they don't even use any such thing anymore. traditionally, I've used a bit of bailing wire to tie those air flappers closed as here on the mid-left coast, 'cold' is upper 40s, 'hot' is mid 80s, most of the year its 50s-70s.
basically, there's a mechanical thermostat flap in the bottom of the airbox, if its really cold out, it opens, and sucks air in from that hose instead of from the normal plastic duct behind the headlight. the other end of that hose goes to a heat exchanger on the exhaust headers so it can suck in air thats preheated by said headers.
i just had the airbox out of my 850 turbo yesterday, and note that they don't even use any such thing anymore. traditionally, I've used a bit of bailing wire to tie those air flappers closed as here on the mid-left coast, 'cold' is upper 40s, 'hot' is mid 80s, most of the year its 50s-70s.
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True, but the smog patrol don't know that. A missing hose from the exhaust area is a red flag to them! Unless you live in Ohio, where no one cares what kind of smoke comes out your pipe .
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