While changing a valve cover gasket, I broke a plastic tuberunning from a blueglobe locatedat the lower drivers side of the engine compartment up the top part of my motor. Any idea what the blue globe is and if its necessary to replace the tubing soon. The carseems to run fine. I'll post pics tommorrow if that would help.

Thanks

1998 A4 2.8 FWD/Triptronic

 

Elaborate on "blue globe" or post pics.

 

could he be talking about that part for the a/c? but its not blue..?

 

No it's not part of the a/c. Its a blue plastic globe/ball shaped canister slightly larger than a softball located below the radiator resv.
I couldn't find it in my alldata.com database. I'll take a pic tommorrow and post it...Thanks

 

Sounds like some kind of vacuum reservoir...are there any lines that look like they might function as vacuum hoses going in/out of it?

 

Here is a pic., its located closer to the brake resv., and it actually looks like three ***** stacked. As I said the car runs fine, but maybe its an emission item which will cause me to fail my next inspection?

Thanks for everyones help....

 

there's no pic lol. i kno which blue globe ur talking bout. it's that blue canister that looks like a water gun water container and it is like 3 sphere's together. unfortunately i have no idea wut it's for, been trying to find out myself. i think it's for the windshield washer though but not confident.

 

Well I've tried to download the pics (both in jpg and gif format)and it tells me its was sucessful but no pics, computers are soooo great. hiwords described it better than I did, but still curious about what it does...Thanks