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I’d like to yank the cruise control servo. There appears to be a vacuum hose that goes to the servo and disappears to I don’t know where in the fire wall. Any suggestions about how to deal with this? Can I just pull it out with force? Do I need to hose clamp it and cut it?
Thanks
Sasha
I don’t remember any vacuum hose associated with cc servo (but I might be wrong) – you are talking about black box mounted on the inner driver side fender right?
Igor
Maybe I am mis-identifying the hose. My car is an '87 325is. I’m talking about the servo mounted above the left fender in the engine compartment. It clearly has electrical wires going to it, but it also has a much larger (like pen thickness) black squishy hose going to it. This is what disappears into the firewall and what I want to just yank out, but I’m uncertain of the consequenses.
Sasha
Isn’t that just the cable going to the pedal?
I’ll look on mine when I get home from work.
Ex36 wrote:
[quote]Maybe I am mis-identifying the hose. My car is an '87 325is. I’m talking about the servo mounted above the left fender in the engine compartment. It clearly has electrical wires going to it, but it also has a much larger (like pen thickness) black squishy hose going to it. This is what disappears into the firewall and what I want to just yank out, but I’m uncertain of the consequenses.
Sasha[/quote]
I’ll go take a look at mine this weekend and let you know what I find out.
Ex36 wrote:
[quote]Maybe I am mis-identifying the hose. My car is an '87 325is. I’m talking about the servo mounted above the left fender in the engine compartment. It clearly has electrical wires going to it, but it also has a much larger (like pen thickness) black squishy hose going to it. This is what disappears into the firewall and what I want to just yank out, but I’m uncertain of the consequenses.
Sasha[/quote]
This looks like a vacuum hose, but it has several electric wires contained within. It disappears behind the fuse box, goes thru a rubber grommet into the passenger compartment, and terminates in a round plug a little smaller than 1/2 inch diameter roughly below and left of the steering column. You can certainly slice the "hose" cable sleeve and pull both ends out, but if you are willing to extricate it intact they are salable on eBay sometimes. (Assuming it used to work. It goes to the cruise control module under the dash.
Thanks for this helpful guidance. I will try to extricate it carefully because I’m selling everything off this beast that I can to help pay for a build with an ever-expanding budget! Today, the front seats go to a guy driving 5 hours to pick them up!
Sasha