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I'm trying to get a 2003 Ranger 2.3 to pass smog and this tube comes off the air intake and goes into the top on the engine right behind in the oil cap. Its cracked near end ( left side on the pic ) any ideas as to replacement parts or suggestions on how to fix this, it passes emission out the tail pipe but this is causing it to fail a visual inspection
Looks like it might be part of the Fresh Air intake for the PCV system, so they're doing you a favor by failing it on a visual, you should fail it too, as it's likely letting dirty/unfiltered air into the engine & that's not good from a Wear standpoint at all. If you don't believe it, pull a oil sample & have a UOA = Used Oil Analysis performed & wear metals & silicone counts will likely be elevated & flagged.
As suggested, making a replacement with a heat gun & some plastic tubing, or finish breaking it & splice with a piece of emissions rubber tubing, or locating a replacement at a good salvage yard will likely be the most reasonable way to go in cost but you never know, maybe the Dealer won't charge too much, but emissions system parts are usually elevated in price.
Let us know what you do & how it turns out.
This should be available from the salvage yard or possibly even the dealership. Otherwise, try Green Sales, a company that deals in discontinued parts. If it was mine (and granted, it is not), I might try to hit the crack with a Dremel tool to roughen it up a little bit, patch it with JB Weld and then hit it with some cheap black spray paint so that the guy doing a visual won't see it.
Update on the search...thanks to a co-worker of mine I was able to track down a complete tube with the connector to the block as well as another PCV hose that needed replacement. The guy had a truck donated to his shop "for parts or whatever" due to the block itself being unserviceable so he removed all the hoses that useable and junked the rest. So now to get this thing put back together and smogged.
Thanks for all the suggestions cuz if this shop didn't have the parts I was going to start running through your ideas
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