What do you guys make of this?

If both ends of the hose are connected to the manifold, like it looks like it is, then you can cap them both off and get rid of the hose, its not doing anything useful. Just another place to develop a leak.

Nice Jeep BTW. Chris

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 22:35:47 GMT, "c" shared the following:

Thank you. That's what I suspected. The rear connection came loose today and my idle got rough... I'll cap both ends off and be done with it.

Thank you. :-) I'm enjoying it already. Took it offroad today and got some pretty good pictures that I'll try to post tomorrow night.

-- Travis

L.W. (ßill) Hughes III did pass the time by typing:

I'm thinking there is a lot of missing bits. Just running from memory on the old Chevy 305, one of those fed the emissions system and the other provided vac to the heat valve.. ya know the valve in the intake snorkle that sucks air past the headers so it gets warmer faster in cold weather.

My old motor book is in the attic or I'd take a closer look.

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:54:41 -0700, L.W.(ßill) Hughes III shared the following:

hahaha! I usually just use a really short length of rubber tubing with a big ol' screw screwed into one end of it to plug it. Cuz I'm cheap like that.

-- Travis

You are right, there is no useful function being done here. He could have, and probably should, plugged the fittings. But, if he had trouble finding, or was simply too lazy to look for, plugs for those fittings, connecting them together with a piece of hose is as good a substitute as any.