line in between head and turbo not connected and its sucking air!

while changing my fuel filter, I was listening to the car run and I heard a air leak sound. I found this line not connected to anything and nothing near it to plug it back into. Any ideas where is belongs? its sucking air so I want to figure this out quickly. it is in between the head and the turbo and asv.

I don't have the ability to post pictures yet so I don't know how to better describe it.

http://s426.photobucket.com/user/Cumminpwr11/library/?sort=3&page=1


I am pointing to the line here.

it's too cold for me to go out and look, but can't you just look around for the other broken side? I would assume it's vacuum if it's sucking air.

narongc73 said:

it's too cold for me to go out and look, but can't you just look around for the other broken side? I would assume it's vacuum if it's sucking air.

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Yes Vacuum line it should plug into the cam/head cover where these is a reservoir to hold vacuum. Think the spot is right about where your finger is in the picture.

I have been looking everywhere for where it can plug in, or the other piece of it. I am sure that I will have to replace it because it is broken, and I can not find where it goes.

Would this vacuum line have anything to do with hard starting like the fuel ran back to the tank, or a misfire on any cylinders. I just got a VCDS Hex Net but the guy needs to re attach the program in his email.

Thanks for the help so far. If anyone can take a picture of where it goes it will help a lot. I ordered a service manual to help me out with this as well.

Thanks
Chris

RollingCoal11 said:

Thanks for the help so far. If anyone can take a picture of where it goes it will help a lot. I ordered a service manual to help me out with this as well.

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It connects to the valve cover, right under where your hand is in your picture. There's supposed to be a little rubber elbow connector...see in this link below:

Upper left hand corner of the picture...

http://forums.tdiclub.com/showpost.php?p=5018865&postcount=36

Second picture down in this link shows the nipple on the back of the valve cover, right under where your hand is...

http://forums.tdiclub.com/showpost.php?p=4983062&postcount=1

You might be missing that little rubber elbow if it's not still connected to the valve cover.

Thanks for the pictures. Now I need to find a connector. IDparts and rock auto dont have that part listed. So now its on for the hunt.

RollingCoal11 said:

Thanks for the pictures. Now I need to find a connector. IDparts and rock auto dont have that part listed. So now its on for the hunt.

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I don't think you'll find it as a separate part from VW. Grab a couple sizes of vacuum line and you'll find a size that fits I'm sure.

I was looking for the 90* elbow for the line. I think I found a complete vacuum assembly on eBay and I will rebuild it with silicone lines and install that so I don't have to worry about that stuff for a while.