I found some water in the trunk of my 850GLT, 1995.

In an attempt to unclog the right trunk drain hose, I seem to have dismantled it and the "vent" (I don't know what it is) from the frame of the car.

Below are some pictures and text to go along.

Unfortunately I believe I'm stuck as well. as I'm not sure how to put the black "vent" into the frame of the car w/the gasket in its proper place. I hope I don't have to bring it to the mechanic. I thought I'd save myself some money! The gasket goes around the plastic vent, I THINK, and its a VERY TIGHT fit. I have put in 4 labeled pictures that I HOPE will remain on the server.

Picture A-Before the Trunk Drainage Tube was removed.

1. What is the green arrow pointing to? It's a tube that goes up behind the interior cabin's wall and car frame
2. What is the purple arrow pointing to? Seems to be a plastic vent
3. What is white arrow pointing to?
4. The sky blue arrow is pointing to the trunk drainage tube, you can see it is pinched when it connects to the black vent. Is this typical ?? I suspect this is why it's clogged.

Pic 2. What is the Tube and that Black box it's inline with the Arrow is Pointing to? This is a better view of the tube from Pic 1's green arrow


Pic 3. When I attempted to remove the black drainage tube (white arrow), I thought I would need to remove the vent. The vent is held into the frame via some tight fitting plastic tabs that are part of the vent's mold itself. Around the vent was a rubber gasket which was wet.

My questions are the following
1. How do I remove the plastic vent and pull it into the trunk, is that even possible, it seems not to fit. The location of the vent is right behind the car's rear bumper.
2. How do I put the gasket around the vent and put the vent back into place WITHOUT dislodging the gasket off the vent. It seems near impossible to me.
3. Is the gasket needed?
4. After I flush out the Drain Tube is there more to flush out that would be "below" the drain tube that I cannot see??
5. Am I better off getting a new drain tube, OR finding some clear tubing and using zip ties to hold the tubing in place?? I thought maybe clear tubing would be better than black tubing so I could see for the future.
6. Another view of the Pinched Drain Tube, that's how it looked when I removed the right side trunk panel.

I'm really at a loss at this point as to how to put this back together. I didn't expect to find a plastic vent, let alone a gasket. It SEEMS that these may be assembled into the car with the bumper removed, but I don't know.



Pic 4 What the Drain Tube looks like in correct orientation but not attached to car

 

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I haven't run into this so hopefully someone with some experience will be along soon.



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I could really use some input on this, as I know nothing about this part of my car.

Thanks in advance.