Loose hose

[Johnman45]

Hello i'm new and i got a 1989 ford festiva lx carburated 5 speed and i have a loose hose under my hood not sure where it goes it comes out from underneath the carburetor and it has a white dashed line on it. Does anyone know where it goes please let me know.

[Aaronbrook37]

Welcome to the forums. Do you happen to have a picture of said hose that you can post up, John?

[navdoc101]

Welcome aboard.

[sc72]

John, put up the city were you live, never know you might live close to a Festy nut who can help.

[bravekozak]

Ditch the feedback carb and the spaghetti hoses. Go for a computerless Escort/Weber carb instead. Instant throttle response. No vacuum delay.

[WmWatt]

On my car it goes into what looks like a plastic check valve out of which two hoses go into the charcoal canister on the driver' side of the engine compartment. Do you smell gasoline fumes under the hood? I assume the intake manifold is supposed to suck them out of the charcoal cansister through that hose.

[Johnman45]

I don't smell any fumes but it does have suction and it runs a heck of a lot better when covered.

[Johnman45]

No I don't, I don't have a camera.

[Pu241]

Know someone with a camera or camera phone who can send us the pick?

[WmWatt]

"I don't smell any fumes but it does have suction and it runs a heck of a lot better when covered. " It's a vacuum leak. If the charcoal cannister or check valve(?) or both are missing I'd plug the hose but replace them before the next emissions test.

People have posted photos and diagrams of the hoses here over the years. Use the search feature to find them. I'd try searching under "hoses".

[Johnman45]

People have posted photos and diagrams of the hoses here over the years. Use the search feature to find them. I'd try searching under "hoses".

I cant seem to find any that show the hose i'm talking about.

[FestYboy]

ok johnman, lets start with an area of the engine bay that the hose is currently located and any color that is on it, (i.e. left rear, next to passenger strut tower with an orange dash).

i'm gonna walk through this with you.

[Johnman45]

it is located on the drivers side of the carburetor and goes towards the master cylinder, it has a white dashed line on it and has a piece of plastic tube in the end.

[WmWatt]

Looks like someone has removed the round black plastic "check valve". I'm calling it a check valve but I don't actualy know what it does. Out the other side of the valve come two hoses which go into the charcoal cannister. Do you still have the charcoal canister, a black bucket about 4" across and 6" high which bolts onto the driver's side fender? The cannister holds any fumes which evaporate out of the fuel when the car is sitting. When you start the car the engine vacuum sucks the fumes out of the cannister and feed them into the air-fuel intake so they get burned instead of being released into the atmosphere. It's an emissions reduction thing. If the cannister is not there that won't effect engine performance. If the hose is not plugged you get air being sucked inot the engine and that would screw up the air/fule mixture, making the engine run lean (too much air, not enough gas). So if you plug the end of the hose the car should run great but you'll be adding to air pollution a little bit, about as much as spilling some gas on the ground when filling the tank at a service station, I would imagine.

[FestYboy]

ok, just checked 2 of my carbies. turns out that there are 2 hoses with white dashes. one as described by WmWatt, and the other that feeds from the PAIR system on the intake cleaner. the PAIR hose is short (about 7") and goes to the TOP of the vac solenoid in the middle of the pack of 3 on the firewall (has brownish/orange 2 wire connector going to it). if that's the hose you speak of, then i suspect that the top nipple of the solenoid has snapped off in the hose...