Does anybody know what this part is called, and how much of a PITA it is to replace, since mine decided to spring a leak..:



It's basically right behind the throttle body, resting on the transmission bell...

Thanks

 

Search for octopus hose- about $130 and best worked on after removing the throttle body.

 

So you gotto replace the whole "octopus hose"? It seem like the leak in my case is coming only from/through the plastic connector. What's so special about that connector anyways? It's not just a straight-though pipe?

PS
Found this as well: heater hose leak at "norma" connector

 

Hi
Forum member test point mentioned this fix in an earlier Norma Connector forum thread- many people cut them out and use a piece of 5/8" heater hose and a couple clamps to replace them.

Since the norma connector or quick connect is already leaking, you might be able to just cut out the connector as test point sugguested.

If the part in your photo is the one-way (non return) valve that is leaking, then you will probably have to replace the octopus hose. There are 2 of these one-way valves in the octopus hose.

Here is a JPEG I created and tried to identify where all the hoses and other component are located and how they are related (when the dropbox webpage opens, click anywhere on the image to get a sharper view):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9l2c3qoqhm...th%20valve.jpg

Since the water valve is the main component where most of the heater hoses are connected to it, I found several photos on the internet that I included in the following JPEG file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zsz2g0zo4z...%20Valve.jpg?m

Jim Lombardi

 

Looks like it's the main (middle) one-way valve so I'll have to swap the whole thing out... Blah... I'm gonna have to wait for a bit warmer weather to get in there. I suppose removing throttle body should be a straight forward job, requiring only a new gasket?

Thanks.

 

....Here comes the "while your at it" train...

If your going to remove the throttle body, you probably want to replace the valley hoses under the manifold as well- you don't want to fix one hose only to have to rip things apart a few months later... there are some other random hoses as well- may as well do them all.

 

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I'm already kicking myself for not riding the "while you're at it" train about 6 months ago, when I had the heater return hose bust and had the car in the shop where they took the manifold off and replaced both of the hoses running through there... But then again, I already spend more $$$ on that fix than I wanted to...