Grandvoy

Hi. I have been busy swapping engine & trans on mine so was easy to get some photos for you! Spent far to much money with some shiny new parts - as well as cleaning & painting front subframe, steering rack & anti roll bar etc. Drives really nicely again just rear axle to play with now!! You want to look down below where the vacuum hose joins the engine (passenger side rear of engine) it has a jubilee type clamp to retain it that's where both mine had cracked. It's a time consuming job to remove the tube as battery & tray, header tank need removing to get to it for a start. I was also smelling the fumes from it but not anymore. The new one in the image shows the convoluted section that is not on the old one. Hope these help

You can safely lift the fuse cover without disconnecting the battery!

I suspect the culprit might be the egr tube that's connected to the exhaust manifold. Black soot ends up on everything on the passenger side. Had 2 different 2.8 engines & both had cracked around the joint flange at the manifold end! First one I welded (bought stainless wire & gas for my mig - worked well) which is a pain as it's really thin walled stainless steel. The second I've just bought a new replacement (this is modified with a corrugated section in it now) but a wallet stinger at £125!! I can get pictures if interested!