Hi - I removed the upper intake manifold from my '95 FZJ80 to sort out some evap system issues and clear my EGR passages.
Everything is going OK (aside from most of the evap doodads being toast) EXCEPT: There is a vac hose from the EGR valve straight to a small steel tube sticking out of the manifold, between the #5 and #6 runners. There is a matching tube on the other (bottom) side, with a vac hose leading to the VSV. It looks like one tube routed straight through the manifold like an arrow. Problem is, when I try to run a paper clip through it from either end, it stops solid at about a half inch in. Can anyone tell me if it IS indeed one straight tube? I am tempted to run a drill through it, but if they are really two separate tubes that angle off into passages inside the manifold casting, that would be a very big OOPS!
Everything is going OK (aside from most of the evap doodads being toast) EXCEPT: There is a vac hose from the EGR valve straight to a small steel tube sticking out of the manifold, between the #5 and #6 runners. There is a matching tube on the other (bottom) side, with a vac hose leading to the VSV. It looks like one tube routed straight through the manifold like an arrow. Problem is, when I try to run a paper clip through it from either end, it stops solid at about a half inch in. Can anyone tell me if it IS indeed one straight tube? I am tempted to run a drill through it, but if they are really two separate tubes that angle off into passages inside the manifold casting, that would be a very big OOPS!