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Originally Posted by amagalla
Did this resolve your issue?
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Thanks for asking. I'm still working on it. I ordered the parts last weekend and received them yesterday. I knew the middle tube on the AOS was detached at the crankcase vent valve in front of cylinder 4. So before I started the whole AOS removal, I decided to reattach this hose. I got my hands in there from below the car. I lined the "quick connect" vacuum line up with the fitting on the valve. I pressed and pressed the hose. I could never get it to go on. I examined a normal fitting and the hose off the car on the new AOS and J tube. It looked like what I was doing should work. But I can never get the leverage necessary to completely get that locking ring over the fitting. The only way I can see to get the necessary leverage is to remove the air box, which looks worse to remove than the AOS. I don't know if dielectric grease or even oil would help this hose attach to the valve. But I lost a lot of skin off my knuckles last night (through nitrile gloves) squeezing my hand into that air box area just to grip a small bend of the breather hose.