Racket
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- First Name
- John
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- 2019 Lariat Supercrew 2WD
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I can't imagine the nightmare of putting the stock hose back in place. My truck has the catch can for life I think.So Mishimoto sent me new hoses for my catch can but I completely removed the can. First, I have no idea how they make it seem so easy to remove the hoses from the factory ports; I do not have huge hands. Second, after about an hour of wrestling and cutting my hands, I finally removed the old Mishimoto hoses. They had a light coating of a brown "powder/residue" on them. A quick sniff confirmed that the hoses stink of exhaust/fuel, just like the old days working on cars. To make sure, I put the wife up to the sniff test since I had been exposed to it for over an hour. Same conclusion, smelled of fuel to her. So I made the decision NOT to reinstall the catch can since it was extremely difficult to remove the hoses from the factory port.
Took the Ranger out to run errands, 30 minutes of drive time, parked her in the closed garage, no odor. Yesterday after an hour trip home from work, parked in the closed garage, 30 minutes later, voila', NO smell. Its the hoses! If they had some kind of hard shell like the factory pipe, nonpermeable, that would kill the odor. I have a slightly used catch can with brand new hoses for sale, cheap, if anyone is interested?
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