Help- hose broken

[TOME]

While fooling around under the hood of my 60, i found this fried hose with some build up on one end. It is right above the passenger side wheel well.

 

[TOME]

Sorry, didn't finish the Post.

Is this something that needs to be fixed right away? (I am thinking not because it hasn't given me any problems yet)
And secondly, How would i fix it? it looks like it is just some hosing, and I have extra of that sitting around.

 

[High Desert]

That looks like the charcoal canister soft rubber hoses. the ethanol in the gasoline dissolves that rubber. My hoses literally became gummy then just disintegrated. I had a very strong gasoline smell,that is how I found the rotten hoses, tracing down the smell.

I replaced mine with some fuel line hose I had laying around.

I don't know if you have to fix it or not? Seemed to me, since I have stock emissions it needed to be a complete loop.

 

[TOME]

ok thanks. that would explain why i had trouble passing emissions

 

[cruiser88]

ok thanks. that would explain why i had trouble passing emissions

yeppers

 

[JLH911]

Can't really tell if this is the same part from the blurry pictures, but this might help:

https://forum.ih8mud.com/60-series-wagons/182713-what-part.html

 

[Joe_E]

Just ordered one of them 90 degree hoses from Cruiser Dan last week. The one I had on there was melted completely shut.