Me too and prob Mea Culpa. Went and changed my airfilter w/o removing the hose from the MAF...... Silly me. Forced it thinking the rings on the hose were for flex. Didnt notice it crack when I put the air filter cover back on. Glad I wasnt in dusty conditions. The strange thing is it drove fine for a few hours, My Girlfriend was driving, she's not much of a motor head though an excellent driver both on and offroad. I was in another rig and not in communication. Made it to Truckke CA. It snowed and in the AM The FZJ would start, but not stay running unless I put my foot on the gas. I was fearful I might have frozen coolant or something horrendous. I an attempt to undo whatever I figure I must have done wrong, I actually put the old air filter that didnt look bad back on to retrace my steps, and tried starting the car w/ air cleaner cover off. Ddint run properly sans cover. Then I noticed a washer was missing between the aircleaner grommet and the nut to secure it. Bejeezus could the MAF be that sensitive?
Suddenly it started and ran perfectly again. As a pat on my back I called my pro MBZ trained Diesel mechanic friend to laud myself on my diagnosis. Mid conversation my partner interrupted me to tell me the cruiser didnt sound good at all. Fail. My Audi Allroad Diesel Touareg driving mech buddy told me to check that hose. It was cracked nearly all the way through at one of the I now assume heat shielding rings not flex rings. couldt see it with air cleaner housing closed. It is now gaffered taped and made it 300 miles home. I'll be ordering a new one. However were I deep off road or didnt have 20 bucks for a hose I'd try superglue plus powder. That sure fixed my ARB fridge freezer AC plug male end that goes into the fridge well, and thats a flexi point. Liked reading potential mods including silicone tubing, but see no real advantages. Wouldn't mind deleting the MAF just to have one less thing to go wrong, but that aint gonna fly with CA emmissions, and rightly so IMO.
PS neither my browser (chrome) nor my antivirus (Norton) is happy with IH8MUD right now. I'll post seperately. I read that chrome now blocks pop-up video content (yay!) I had to allow some BS and The web adress is marked not secure in order to use the forum,
