Vac leak...Need Help!
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Vac leak...Need Help!
Hey my 2001 z06 is making a noise like its sucking or blowing air. I put it next to my friends z06 and my car was louder from the engine, but it was air pressure noise. I tried to find a leak but couldnt find it.
Does anyone have any tips on what i should look for or any hoses that have a lot of problems. Or any easy way to tell if it has a leak. Thank you.
Does anyone have any tips on what i should look for or any hoses that have a lot of problems. Or any easy way to tell if it has a leak. Thank you.
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Hey my 2001 z06 is making a noise like its sucking or blowing air. I put it next to my friends z06 and my car was louder from the engine, but it was air pressure noise. I tried to find a leak but couldnt find it.
Does anyone have any tips on what i should look for or any hoses that have a lot of problems. Or any easy way to tell if it has a leak. Thank you.
Does anyone have any tips on what i should look for or any hoses that have a lot of problems. Or any easy way to tell if it has a leak. Thank you.
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Well i got the car but i didnt realize that leak till my friend told me it sounds like one. And there are no mods but i did put on a underdrive pulley the other day but this noise is from before that.
Also i have a code P0410 and also my driver side vents give a lot less air than the other side.
Also i have a code P0410 and also my driver side vents give a lot less air than the other side.
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Well i got the car but i didnt realize that leak till my friend told me it sounds like one. And there are no mods but i did put on a underdrive pulley the other day but this noise is from before that.
Also i have a code P0410 and also my driver side vents give a lot less air than the other side.
Also i have a code P0410 and also my driver side vents give a lot less air than the other side.
AIR shutoff valve
AIR vacuum control solenoid
See if you can isolate the leak noise to either the battery area/behind the right front tire, or directly below the left headlight.
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At P0410 suggests that neither bank is responding to AIR. There are two components of the system that have a vacuum connection:
AIR shutoff valve
AIR vacuum control solenoid
See if you can isolate the leak noise to either the battery area/behind the right front tire, or directly below the left headlight.
AIR shutoff valve
AIR vacuum control solenoid
See if you can isolate the leak noise to either the battery area/behind the right front tire, or directly below the left headlight.
This is good, logical thinking. You'd be lucky to find 1 professional tech out of ten that would bother thinking it through like this.
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lucky131969, you are the man. thanks so much for all of your help and insight on this, as well as many other issues here on the forum. i hope you realize just how many people you help when you post your responses. i have read so many of your posts and saved quite a bit of the information and ideas you post up.
you, sir, are a credit to this forum!
jeff
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lucky131969, you are the man. thanks so much for all of your help and insight on this, as well as many other issues here on the forum. i hope you realize just how many people you help when you post your responses. i have read so many of your posts and saved quite a bit of the information and ideas you post up.
you, sir, are a credit to this forum!
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At P0410 suggests that neither bank is responding to AIR. There are two components of the system that have a vacuum connection:
AIR shutoff valve
AIR vacuum control solenoid
See if you can isolate the leak noise to either the battery area/behind the right front tire, or directly below the left headlight.
AIR shutoff valve
AIR vacuum control solenoid
See if you can isolate the leak noise to either the battery area/behind the right front tire, or directly below the left headlight.
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Is this second diagram the front of the door jam and wheel well? I can't tell. Also, the part circled...is it the vacuum solenoid? Where is it located? I have the P0410 code and no vent control. Pump is pumping air and there is vacuum (firewall side) and pressure (pump side) at the connection near the alternator.
